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

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

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

its already been solvedddddd plus a lot of the people annoyed or mad about it really arent being nice (the one trans woman one was spam) was just non native English language issue not a discriminatory policy (how u go from pronouns to being white surpremisist idk) can we save vitriol for actually bad people an not small mistakes (even if is done by a maybe-conservativ) pls

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

can we save vitriol for actually bad people an not small mistakes (even if is done by a maybe-conservativ) pls

yeah that would be best.

Edit: in regards to vitriol: don't be like https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648 LiEnby in that thread after the code was merged. It makes us all look stupid and hateful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

It makes us all look stupid and hateful.

I'd argue that it does a lot more than make people just look hateful. Plenty of assholes out there using progressive causes as justification and shielding for their poor behavior.

The dev could have avoided this easily by merging the original PR and moving on with their life, but there is negative reason for the dogpiling that occurred. It's open fucking source. Fork it and make your own inclusive competitor.

The behavior of the community around this is reprehensible, and is the perfect ammunition for opportunists looking to draw people into right wing radicalism. "Look at what they did to someone for using he instead of they! Imagine what will happen if we let these people have any real power?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

TIL GitHub doesn’t appear to have a “Block User” function.