Being a developer is difficult, because a lot of people pay attention to what you say. And any mistake can get a lot of visibility. Sometimes I wish that Lemmy was a company, with a community manager who takes care of these things. But anyway, it is how it is.

The unfortunate truth is people who are enamored with programming find it so enticing because it's a part of the universe that works exactly the way you tell it (for better or worse). Kind of like how kids who are traumatized build forts to hide in or something.

If code doesn't do what you want there's a way to fix it and make it behave. There seems to be a correlation where the best programmers can't tolerate the unpredictability of other human beings or reality...

To be clear, yes I'm a programmer too, and yes I built forts as a kid so this is speaking from experience from talking to other IT/programmer people 😂 it's a common theme I've noticed.

Because us developers, we are just a couple of nerds on the Internet. We didn't study public relations or politics at university, and don't know which spontaneous comment might generate a shitstorm. Unlike /u/spez we don't have a PR team writing posts for us. And because there is no profit motive, Lemmy and Piefed don't need to appeal to everyone like Reddit does. Consider it the price to pay for using a non-commercial platform.

It becomes tantalizing when you have your software running on others systems to see what you can get away with.

FOSS is notorious for egomaniacs. That's why there's so many forks and endless implementations of basically the same shit! Just with some new unpronounceable name that'll often be abandoned in short order.

Stamets wrote up an amazing summary of events so far if you can find it.

There’s a lot of previous drama Rimu has made that you can see across the few posts below this one and on the Fediverse comms. The latest thing was he shadowbanned quokk.au so their posts don’t show up in all or new users can find the instance to join.

He’s declared war on anarchists and all other leftists basically.

Edit: He has now provided his “justification” for the act

Mind you he hasn’t kicked anyone else on the same “side” as her.

Apparently, so long as someone isn't openly anti-AI, it's ok to use bigoted language towards them. This is, sadly, pretty standard fare for the typical liberal, who is perfectly happy to descend into homophobia or transphobia if it means they can use it to mock their their political opponents.

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." - Stephen Fry

This whole thing is stupid. It’s one thing to be raised a sheltered person by overbearing parents, it’s another thing to be desperate to be sheltered. Some people need to put their adult pants on and learn that the world is not their safe space.