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  • deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
    62·
    5 months ago

    Are people here reading the whole mastodon thread?

    it is 200% okay to bully them into submission

    Sounds rather toxic, and also counterproductive.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
    56·
    5 months ago

    It’s so stupid of the developer to claim that gender neutrality is political. It really is not. It’s just about equally respecting everyone. I’m probably preaching to the choir though.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    56·
    5 months ago

    The person doing free labor and providing open source software doesn’t use the preferred vocabulary… Still a net positive, no reason to brigade their issue tracker for wrong think.

    Encouraging the internet to harass a volunteer is low.

    Nothing stopping people from forking the project changing the vocabulary, and maintaining their fork. But that’s more work than drive by hate

  • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
    47·
    5 months ago

    I think it’s pretty stupid of the developer to have that attitude. I think it’s equally as stupid to advocate against using a piece of software because of that, though

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      8·
      5 months ago

      I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.

      • immutable@lemm.ee
        37·
        5 months ago

        Not really perfectionism just grammar

        I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

        I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

        There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.

        • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
          7·
          5 months ago

          Honestly I don’t even care when humankind is referred to as ‘Man’. People don’t (want to) get that in this context it is meant inclusively to refer to all humans, and not just physically men. It’s ‘man’ for historical reasons and its interpretation should change with time just like with that of eg. the constitution.

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    5 months ago

    Based on the content of the linked post and the evolution of the thread here, the mod team has decided to lock this post. There is an important difference between standing up for people who are marginalized and harassment, which this thread has been more or less equating. Please deal with this topic in a more nuanced manner going forward.

    • Manalith@midwest.social
      12·
      5 months ago

      I used to really enjoy his Linux Sucks speeches, but man, not sure if younger me wasn’t paying attention or if man went real off the deep end around 2019.

      • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Yeah Lunduke showed his true self and I’ve written him off as yet another narcissistic crazy in the world.