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Yep, I effectively landed my favorite job by engaging with the Erlang community on Twitter. I miss it, but it just got to be too toxic during the 2016 election
by macintux 11mo ago
Yep, I effectively landed my favorite job by engaging with the Erlang community on Twitter. I miss it, but it just got to be too toxic during the 2016 election cycle (in fairness, everything was too toxic then, and it hasn’t gotten better since).
- awesome_dude 11mo agoI think that ALL communities become toxic as they grow I often hear that one community, or another, is "really good, not toxic at all, which is true when it starts (for tech, whilst it's "new" and everyone is still interested in figuring out how it works, sharing their learnings, and actively working to encourage people to also take interest) Then idealism works it way in - this community is the greatest that every existed ever - and whatever it is centred is the best at whatever Then - all other things are bad, you're <something bad> if you think otherwise And, boom, toxicity starts to abound For me, I've seen it so many times, whether in motorised transport (Motorcycles vs cars, then Japanese bikes vs British/European/American then individual brands (eg Triumph vs Norton), or even /style/ of bike (Oh you ride a sport bike, when clearly a cruiser is better...)) In the tech scene it's been Unix vs Microsoft, then Microsoft vs Linux or Apple, and then... well no doubt you've seen it too
- rightbyte 11mo ago> Then idealism works it way in Uhm I would rather say it is when the idealists are pushed out by grifters is when things get bad for a community.
- awesome_dude 11mo agoThat sounds like an ideal (but mildly toxic, "grifters" is a negative label don't you think) way for things to be ... :P
- mlrtime 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September