Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

  • 4am@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think it’s “kinda dumbo to point ignorant all, unless you’re an insufferable twatwafflenlike 90% of the fucking STEM community in 2024.

    Like, I’d consider myself pretty progressive, maybe even “woke” if that still has any meaning left, and even I might have just used male pronouns because I myself am male;’not for malicious reasons but just because I wasn’t thinking in that moment.

    But if I was like “oh yeah, that makes sense, and cool you even did the work of fixing it for me! Merged.” and went about my day, no one would have brigaded me, no one would have posted it all over socials, there wouldn’t be blogs and articles, and I’d probably have a leg to stand on if anyone still wanted to make a big deal.

    The way this dude reacted was a self-report. The community was right to push back, even if some people ended up taking it too far.