• @M500@lemmy.ml
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      010 months ago

      Maybe I’m dumb, but I completely do not understand what the dev did to upset people.

      I read the thread and I’m confused about it.

    • @Nima@leminal.space
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      010 months ago

      maybe I’m not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to “can we not do this here in the github please”

      and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about “dehumanization” over it.

      …why is this such a huge deal exactly?

      • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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        110 months ago

        Changing “he” to “they” isn’t a political change, or shouldn’t be if you’re not a fucking shithead

      • @jack@monero.town
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        Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

      • @InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip
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        Absolutely nothing. The fact that they had to bring up a totally irrelevant 3 year old issue during an event that is supposed to be celebrated tells you a lot. They have been blatantly brigading various communities just for attention, and probably to get the dev cancelled or something. Even this post, the privacy community does not need this whole chain of replies. And yet, they overshadow every legit discussion with this bullshit unprompted.

        • @jack@monero.town
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          Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

        • @Nima@leminal.space
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          010 months ago

          so I don’t understand. why are all these comments yelling the same stuff? did they just decide to harass this one guy for saying “take it somewhere else, please”?

          I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said. I’m finding nothing but a dude working on a browser.

          this kind of behavior scares me greatly. I know individuals who have been victims of real transphobia. this seems to be a simple language difference. and I think targeting this guy is a mistake.

          Flooding and being loud doesn’t make them right. it just means they’re loud.

          • @refalo@programming.dev
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            I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said

            They use the “silence is violence” trope to harass and terrorize projects, hiding behind their “protected status” as a transgender. Whenever someone rejects anything that calls for “greater inclusion”, they go nuclear and tell all their friends to do the same. The bullied becomes the bully. It’s very childish. It’s always people that never contribute any meaningful code as well.