It's much easier to shut down a project instead.
Alternatively, people can instead choose to NOT be dicks to people who are altruistically developing stuff for no compensation and the net benefit of our industry.
It's easy to walk away from an ungrateful community if you don't have gold in your pockets to soften the blows.
I think it's a bit problematic to use GitHub in 2025 if you are doing F/OSS
I find I am typically only browsing this site when I am not ready to present the best version of myself (tired, bored, demotivated).
I don't know how we end the cycle of cruelty in our industry.
Actually have consequences for it? When industry leaders like Linus act like assholes constantly but are given cover because they produce something so valuable, will always produce a situation where being empathetic becomes a social proxy for being weak or untalented
* the internet.
The vast majority of the internet is spurred by ragebait/loneliness-bait in some way. It skews heavily to the mentally ill.
This sounds useful, I'll be building it and having a try.
> Joined on Jul 25, 2025
Probably a paid troll by a state actor would be my guess.
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