Free and Open Source Software

17915 readers

77 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

118

SerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations - ░ Nova Online (cmdr-nova.online)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

84 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t think it’s “kinda dumb” to point out the issue all, unless you’re an insufferable twatwaffle like 90% of the fucking STEM community in 2024, who can never be wrong or challenged.

Like, I’d consider myself pretty progressive, maybe even “woke” if that still has any meaning left, and even I might have just used male pronouns because I myself am male;’not for malicious reasons but just because I wasn’t thinking in that moment.

But if I was like “oh yeah, that makes sense, and cool you even did the work of fixing it for me! Merged.” and went about my day, no one would have brigaded me, no one would have posted it all over socials, there wouldn’t be blogs and articles, and I’d probably have a leg to stand on if anyone still wanted to make a big deal.

The way this dude reacted was a self-report. The community was right to push back, even if some people ended up taking it too far.