Mastodawn

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

open source software developers are getting fed up and are finally recognizing that they can just fucking leave.

the owner of nvim-treesitter gets a really shitty comment from a user saying that the update to a required version broke their workflow
the owner replies saying "hey just pin what you need instead of mainlining it if you need this for an older version"
the shitty user replies back saying "go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people"
the owner says "OK." and ARCHIVES THE REPO

like, holy shit, what a power move.

luna the doggie

@chirpbirb damn maybe people will finally start not taking shit for granted

@lunareclipse @chirpbirb nah, they will now shit on the maintainer

then fork it and revert that commit, as well as rename main to master

@lunareclipse @chirpbirb same as what happened with duckstation

the developer got so fed up with linux users he changed license to one that prohibits distribution (i.e. you can use the provided builds or build it yourself, but not package it) - and ofc linux users respected it and quietly left...

...haha no, they declared the developer the devil, and were (and still are) like: I don't care, you can't stop me

🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@lunareclipse @chirpbirb @alice duckstation is a completely different story

@luana @lunareclipse @chirpbirb how so?

solo 13h ago

@alice @lunareclipse @chirpbirb @luana I've heard that the duckstation dev is apparently... a specimen.

12h ago

@solonovamax @lunareclipse @chirpbirb @luana I haven't heard anything, so specifics would be nice

tho idk if that changes anything - like even if he turns out to be fascist for example, I guarantee you that it wouldn't be why people were like fuck you you can't stop me from packaging it

solo 12h ago

@alice @lunareclipse @chirpbirb @luana I don't know enough about specifics to give them to you, but I think brodie has made some videos on it

solo 12h ago

@alice @lunareclipse @chirpbirb @luana I believe it was something along the lines of: he threw a hissy fit about how people were using an AUR package that's not his AUR package, so he added something to the CMakeLists that kills the build if you're on arch or nixos, then he threw a hissy fit that people patched it out, then he threw a hissy fit about linux in general, then he tried to relicense eveything with another hissy fit even though you can't really do that, all the while being a cunt to people
also I think there was a hissy fit about wayland somewhere in there

I could be wrong on this, this is just what I remember

12h ago

@solonovamax @lunareclipse @chirpbirb @luana I mean... yeah, he doesn't want people to package it, why is it a surprise that he would be upset at people packaging it?

like - yeah? that's kinda the point?