• rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    People are losing their shit, calling for boycotts, and throwing around accusations of transphobia over comments in the source code and a single line of documentation? Seriously? And brigading the developer three years after the fact‽ I was ready to write off Ladybird, but damn, this was taken way out of proportion.

    I’m all in for equal treatment, but people need to get a perspective. Such an extreme reaction will ultimately hurt the cause they’re trying to advocate for. Getting bent out of shape and publicly brigading something for every perceived slight, every time someone’s feelings are hurt, or can’t get their way, will get them – and the demographic or movement they represent – labelled as undesirable.

    • りん〜@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      This is why I hate the FOSS community. Everyone freaks out and cries wolf the second a platform doesn’t share their political opinion, even if it’s completely irrelevant to privacy or FOSS.

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        4 months ago

        Foss certainly aligns better with left-wing philosophies, i don’t think far-right need to be widely accepted in these communities

        • りん〜@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          4 months ago

          Calling someone far-right for not wanting to implement a useless pronouns feature is a bit wild.

    • mke@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      A single line of documentation? How about looking into some context? Hurt feelings my ass, Andreas isn’t some innocent, silly little guy who never does anything questionable.

      And which cause exactly are you talking about? Because I don’t know about you, but I’ll stand for real, marginalized people over lines of code on a screen any day.