A material portion of the blame should be placed squarely at the feet of those attitudes similar to the one expressed in this Mastodon thread which I recently s

A material portion of the blame should be placed squarely at the feet of those attitudes similar to the one expressed in this Mastodon thread which I recently saw resurface and hate just as much as the first time I saw it: https://hachyderm.io/@stargirl/109697057391904145 https://hachyderm.io/@stargirl/109697057391904145 This “I was allowed to try something, but it’s dumb for anyone else to do so” attitude is one of a collection that quite rightfully turns off, hell, not just newcomers, but anyone apart from the old guard. Truth be told, enough time has passed for many open source communities to have shaken out such that the last ones standing are just the only people toxic enough to outlast everyone else. Many jaded socially inept OSS greybeards would do the community a service by not subjecting it to their general…grumpiness. Thank you for your service, but drop the messiah complex. Things have a way of working themselves out.