The position that others should have the freedom to read, use, and adapt source code is inherently a political one. It was never not political.

It shouldn’t be surprising that people within the FOSS movement have political disagreements about precisely what that freedom should entail.

Same here. The Visual Studio debugger is excellent, and there’s never a day that goes by without me using it.

Tildes is another website trying to be the new Reddit.

Tildes is very much not trying to be a new Reddit. And certainly not the new Reddit.

Tildes has a clear vision for itself as a mature forum for long text-based discussions, with the trappings of a link aggregator.

There are no image posts (although posts may link to an image), and memes and shitposting are discouraged at best. There are also no user-created communities (subreddits) at this time - although there may be in the future.

If you enjoy old-style discussion forums, you’ll probably enjoy Tildes - but it’s certainly not trying to compete with Reddit, Lemmy, kbin, or anything else. It’s doing it’s own thing.