It is important to make distinctions:

• as politicians they can use and campaign in whatever platform they want.
• As Government officials, they must be forced by legislation to use a Government Federated instance so everyone has access to their communication and no Big Tech oligarch has the power to decide how these messages reach the population.

Thanks for this comment, I was looking for the licensing details of this yoinking process but you saved me that effort

and never contribute back all while having used stolen content through LLM development.

Yes that’s another ick, GPL would make me consider collaborating.

Good news, version 9 was released not long ago so I’ll update later to check the changes :)

My favourite plugin is Zotero Syllabus, you can organize collections in Markdown file with notes.

Thank you for your work, let’s keep our freedom and rights!

Just to add what others are saying. Commit dates, see how many maintainers/contributors it has, recent PR, recent open issues, how developers respond to them, visiting their discussion forums. Checking their social media accounts can also be useful, might tell you how they interact with the rest of the community.