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I’m not saying it’s decisively correlated, or anything on its own, but there sure are a lot of anime avatars in this community.
by vehemenz 2mo ago
I’m not saying it’s decisively correlated, or anything on its own, but there sure are a lot of anime avatars in this community.
- Cyph0n 2mo agoNix and NixOS probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the anime pfps :)
- coldbrewed 2mo agoI do not like anime but holy crap do people with anime pfps make excellent software engineers and terrifying red teamers.
- deleted 2mo ago[deleted]
- yoyohello13 2mo agoIt’s really the furries that keep the modern world running.
- sunaookami 2mo agoFurries != Weeaboos/Otakus
- yoyohello13 2mo agoLet’s me honest, the communities have a lot of overlap.
- frantathefranta 2mo ago[flagged]
- coldbrewed 2mo agoThe Internet was fully functional and full of competent people when it was a much weirder place. Converting all spaces into the equivalent of dress shirts and blazers doesn't reduce anyone's competence but does make the experience so much more drab. Let people like things.
- frantathefranta 2mo agoI don’t mind the internet being a weird place and enjoy the weirdness that exists in places like the NixOS community. I’m fully aware that the software I use has been built by extremely smart people who seem to like anime. It’s just that my line in the sand is that if you are trying to share a serious topic on the Discourse, the anime pfp seems to undercut the message.
- sph 2mo agoThere is more to variety than the FAANG bro and the non-binary furry with anime profile picture, yet it’s all you see in tech these days. None of these were the stereotypes, say, 25 years ago.
- krautsauer 2mo agoSorry for the snark, but would it kill you to change your definition of appropriate?
- shakna 2mo agoWhy do you consider it so strongly to be inappropriate? It literally does not tell me anything about the user. DOS was built in a basement. Pretty sure suit and tie wasn't the dejour whilst they were doing it. Linux was a hobby project. Pretty sure that slacks featured more than a blazer.
- frantathefranta 2mo agoI will tell on myself here but having an anime pfp evokes something childish for me and I do judge the user based on it. I expect to be judged similarly because I use the album art for a favorite album of mine as a pfp on the same platform and would consider it equally inappropriate if I were to share a heartfelt and serious message like this one.
- KingMob 2mo agoWhen I did nix, I joked that everyone I met in the community was either a queer furry kayaker or a military-industrial Terminator dev, with no in-between.
- twalla 2mo agothat spectrum is really more of a horseshoe than most would think
- farfatched 2mo agoNix is flexible enough to bend to your will. Perhaps it is no surprise the earlier adopters were people with rigid views.
- undeveloper 2mo agosilly. without the anime avatars and the furries nix is dead in the water.