☃️karolherbst☃️FOSS is the worst of all communities, seriously
I think the only reasonable conclusion is to give up on the idea of a "FOSS community" that doesn't exist anyway.
Gnome is a community, KDE is one and so is Freedesktop.
But FOSS obviously isn't.
Vile Lasagna@karolherbst I guess that reading makes sense.
If nothing else there's a ton of reactionary infiltration in a space that's built on anarchist principles.
Between that, regular infighting, capture by capital, usual dudes being assholes, petty infighting and flaming... it's all over the place
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼@VileLasagna @karolherbst we should not discount that some of this is because the last ten years has been excessively shitty especially if you're under the age 21. The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of many.
@sri @VileLasagna oh yeah.. I was listening to some sociologists the other day and one of the statements made were "if you are below the age of 18, all you know is constant crisis"
Not sure how much that applies to other countries, but definitely to Germany and most other European countries.
@karolherbst @VileLasagna It's been a never ending set of chaos. Now you have AI and LLMs that seem to be adding more bad things eg surveillance, job security, and driving the prices of water and electricity. Rising prices, changing climate - it's no wonder they are all on edge. No doubt some anger towards boomer and GenXers.