Before you all fall for the shamless clickbait, no, they haven't yet.

There are some people still doing that kind of stuff over at neocities.org

I haven't played it, but Cruelty Squad beats 95% of these in uglyness. Probably because they (hopefully) do it on purpose.

Let instance admins approve or deny the requests then

It's not only VSCode, it's also Github and C# and TypeScript to a lesser extent as well, probably. They want to have control over the "coding" ecosystem. And look at what they already did with github, they trained AI on all projects on it, and they then sell access to that AI.

Unfortunately with vsc you (us) are the product

Getting the little boxes when renaming files. Uuuuuuuuggghhh

The Independent Fallout Wiki is a thing. I can't vouch for its value though; I haven't really used it.

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Only true spaniards will understand

No joke there are chatgpt bots going around, even in smaller subreddits.

Installing dependencies automatically mostly

Between conservative and newborn paranoid. I use Fedora and Firefox, but (microg) LineageOS and F-Droid on my phone. Also I don't know what half of those apps are but I'd like to use matrix.