So long, and thanks for all the fish: Leaving the Nix community

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12 points·vpt··13 comments

They are an excellent writer, so it's a loss for them to leave, but I can't shake the feeling that people who look for a sense of community in an OSS project are barking up the wrong tree.

Can it exist? Sure, but it seems to have a lot more fragility for various reasons we can all guess at. I don't think your local book-club or whatever community has the same weaknesses.

This is what happens when you don't purge toxic people from your project -- your best people up and walk away.

Glad that's not what happened here. The best people were excommunicated and burned at the stake for their heretical views because they didn't purge the toxic fundamentalists from the project.

Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist. If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.

I don't doubt that queer and leftist people gravitate towards hacker culture, but how does queer and leftist follow from antiauthoritarian? The majority of people are still, and will always be non-queer, and a significant portion of antiauthoritarians are not leftist.

Unnecessarily emotional and unprofessional, but what do I know

japanese comics as a profile picture is always a red flag.

Step into the fire, get burned in the fire.

Stop politicizing everything.

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