Dave Rahardja4d ago

If your answer to anyone who doesn’t like something that an open source project is doing is “then fork it yourself”, you’re a piece of shit.

First, not everyone who uses #FOSS is a coder. This is a feature, not a bug. Second, not everyone who is a coder is a maintainer, and they shouldn’t have to be to have their voices heard. Third, when someone is intentionally worsening a project, and you harass the people complaining about it, you are reinforcing a power imbalance in favor of the abuser.

Check your privilege. YOU, a rich person with technical skills and time to spare, may be willing to bear the cost of forking a popular project, but others can’t. Think beyond your selfish self.

Show threaddatarama3d ago
@drahardja How many people who respond "fork it yourself" has forked anything themselves?
Show threadDave Rahardja
@datarama Not that it should matter, right? It could be someone who is adept at it, or is even actively maintaining a large project. The fact that THEY can do it doesn’t mean that EVERYONE should do it.
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Show threaddatarama3d ago
@drahardja Not in principle, obviously, but my own experience is that pretty much everyone making that suggestion can't or won't do it themselves anyway.