Drew DeVaultAug 27, 2019
It should be fairly obvious by now that every project which has been forked over some perceived social injustice has quickly failed, being born and dying in irrelevance. Maybe if the spent some of the energy they spend harassing free software maintainers on perfecting the craft themselves, their forks would go somewhere
Show threadpuffball: trianglemancerAug 27, 2019

@sir I think that this conflates the success of a fork to the technical skill of the people forking it which isn't usually true. Half the reason why forks die is because other people don't contribute, partially because FLOSS has a tendency to be hostile towards minorities, (which is usually the reason the fork exists to begin with lol)

If we can raise awareness and empathy for marginalized groups within FLOSS, forks will be made less often, and be more successful when they do pop up.

Show threadpuffball: trianglemancerAug 27, 2019

@sir but I think the issue here is that you don't want forks to exist in the first place?

I think it's on you to figure out why you see the injustice as percieved instead of actual if someone is taking time out of their day to fork a project. It's very real to them!

Show threadDrew DeVaultAug 27, 2019
@wgahnagl I would agree many times, but in this case I think that the forkers are working in bad faith. I don't think it's "very real to them". I think it's virtue signaling harassment.
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@sir @wgahnagl from an anthropological perspective, the use of the term "virtue signaling" in order to virtue signal to a different audience is really interesting. Especially because it's typically a more explicit example of virtue signaling then whatever they are originally whining about.
Aug 30, 2019 at 1:57amWeb
Show threadpuffball: trianglemancerAug 30, 2019
@_cr0_tab @sir oh fuck it's meta-meta discourse hours, drop some knowledge cr0_tab
Show threadas the _cr0_tabsAug 30, 2019
@wgahnagl @sir you kids ready to drop some  Heavy META