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And then you have what happened to Andreas Kling: make an apolitical space for people like him to make something needed and useful. And then people came knockin
by logicprog 8mo ago
And then you have what happened to Andreas Kling: make an apolitical space for people like him to make something needed and useful. And then people came knocking on his door, making a huge mess, and whining about how he ran the place without contributing. See also Contributor Covenant stuff. Talw as old as time.
For context, I think what many people (including probably the OP, and definitely Kling) consider political is skewed in favor of the status quo, and their own comfort, and that some amount of explicitly shared values in a space can improve it; but at the same time I've seen the kind of horrible never ending purity spirals and toxicity that happens when you really take "everything is political and we need to be fighting over it all the time" to its logical conclusion. See also: Mastodon.
- ahaferburg 8mo agoWhat happened to Andreas Kling?
- logicprog 8mo agoHe used default-male pronouns in his documentation for Ladybird, and didn't want to change it when some random person made a drive by PR to do so, so a huge Github thread — where a bunch of leftists flew in from left field, who had never cared or known about the project before, let alone contributed to it — started to harass him over it, although those comments seem to have been deleted now. Then after that, Drew DeVult decided to go after him, digging up and hyperbolically misinterpreting his every tweet to make him look like an, in Drew's words, outright fascist — for instance, confusing objections to affirmative action with belief in White Replacement Theory.
- ahaferburg 8mo agoTotally missed that. Thank you!
- liveoneggs 7mo agoI love OSS drama so I found some links: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1970907449499484266 https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1970907449499484266
- logicprog 7mo agoLunduke is not a very reliable source...