Nora ReedAug 6, 2023
anything to avoid actually calling in your boys to tell them to shut the fuck up sometimes lol https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110839737998715967
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])

Hi, fediverse Web and mobile client developer. What if you added a speed bump in the reply flow to slow down users for just a moment? "Do you really want to reply to X? Will they appreciate your reply?" Maybe just the first time they reply to someone; maybe easily turned off in settings. If it makes people think for just a moment, it might help with making the fediverse a more welcoming place for women.

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Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
the mansplaining problem is a cultural one with mastodon because it's full of cis men who have put more thought into their linux flavor of choice than they ever have about whether their behavior is useful or wanted. it cannot be solved with the twitter popup that says "are you sure you want to post this?" when you tell someone to eat shit
Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
i don't get mansplained to nearly as much on bluesky, and that's not because bluesky stumbled on some kind of magical feminist UI design, it's because mastodon is dominated by FOSS nerds, who have a terrible culture
Show threadCharlie StrossAug 6, 2023
@NoraReed FOSS as a movement owes a lot to Richard M. Stallman and Eric S. Raymond—in all the worst ways imaginable.
Show threadJoshua A.C. NewmanAug 6, 2023
@cstross @NoraReed I choked down a couple chapters of The Cathedral & The Bazaar before concluding that any idea Eric Raymond had was much less important to Eric Raymond than Eric Raymond is to Eric Raymond.
Show threadCharlie StrossAug 6, 2023

@JoshuaACNewman @NoraReed I'm pretty sure that ESR is the sort of insecure authoritarian who is attracted to totalizing ideologies because they offer certainty—hence, the kind of libertarian who goes full Nazi at the flip of a switch.

I spent an enlightening hour with him on a firing range in 2007, listening to him rant about muslims in a way that would have been instantly familiar to any German in 1933. The "goes full Nazi" opinion is a witness report, not meant as hyperbole.

Show threadAndreas Krennmair
@cstross the one time I met ESR, it was him presenting at a Linux/FLOSS community conference in Austria 20 years ago. He subsequently burned all the bridges to the whole Austrian FLOSS community by proclaiming that the holocaust wouldn’t have happened if the Jews all had guns. A properly unpleasant character.
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Show threadAtomic OrbitalsAug 7, 2023
@akrennmair @cstross A kinda related incident in Ireland: he was doing a tour and the phrase "taking the gun out of Irish politics" was being commonly used at the time in relation to the peace process in Northern Ireland. He mentioned the phrase and went on a pro-Right To Bear Arms rant. Probably the fastest I've seen a speaker alienate a roomful of people - easily over a hundred in the audience.