This is the part of the excitement around Gleam that gives me pause. When the biggest draw is the heavily-moderated community [0], it seems almost more a political project than it does a technical one. That's not a bad thing in and of itself—goodness knows we need less toxicity in the world—but I get very nervous around a technical project that has gotten very comfortable with silencing dissent and enforcing "good vibes". I think of dang's bio quote:
> Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression. [1]
Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
[0] The lead dev has been known to tell people off in DMs for reacting with negative emoji to their discord comments (and remove the negative reactions with admin powers!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413735