You know what?

100% of my empathy goes out to anyone involved in open source development, who also has to manage that project's social feeds, subreddits, or any other public-facing platform.

You're on the front lines of endless complaining and borderline hateful criticism, and it never seems to end.

And if you're someone dishing out that kind of behavior? Grow the fuck up, be less entitled, and try to respect the human beings working their asses off to make awesome free software for you.

@killyourfm I've been involved in different types of associations (NGO's) many decades. And, for some reason, paying members who just appear to be heard and vote think they have more rights than board members who are actually dedicating their time. So, I don't think this type of behavior only happens in the open source world. Telling others what to do, when and how seems to be an international sport. An irritating one.

@killyourfm I have a very active discord server focused around asus-linux.

I went hardline on bad behaviour right from the start and it's absolutely helped cultivate a warm welcoming environment for everyone, plus I have mods with the same values now too - take no shit.

Your community is a reflection of you.

@killyourfm (I think I may have missed the mark here though. Yeah I've seen some pretty nasty shit towards others that is nothing to do with community building).
@fluke I couldn't agree more! And I was able to see the effect of that firsthand when I had my own Discord server for Linux For Everyone.
@killyourfm What if the Free Software is actually not free, e.g. by proprietary SaaS dependencies of a production instance of a web application?
@killyourfm open source developers are the knights holding up the entire software ecosystem. you gotta treat that kind of work with respect 🫡
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@killyourfm Along these lines from Christmas 2023: Thank you Thunderbird Non Coding Contributors https://www.rolandmicroblog.com/2023/12/25/thank-you-thunderbird.html
2023-12-25 Thank you Thunderbird Non Coding Contributors

@killyourfm See also: https://www.rolandmicroblog.com/2023/12/14/happy-holidays-to.html
Happy Holidays To All Software Support Folks, You Rock!

Understaffed and lacking tools you are undaunted and help customers, write knowledge base articles, cobble together workarounds and work with engineering and marketing. You are amazing! Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise!

Happy Holidays To All Software Support Folks, You Rock!