Comment by cookiengineer

There's no point in regretting a situation where you believed in the good faith of other people.

If you do that, you will eventually lose with depression or other heavily overfitted reactions.

I build open source for myself, and for myself first. Not for others, not for appreciation, not for "likes" or similar.

I don't expect anything in return. If you want to be part of it, start to contribute. But with everything in life, trust has to be earned slowly over time.

Having said that, I always believe in the good of people. Though I am pretty sad and disappointed how some parts of the internet made me their artificial enemy because I don't submit to social pressure and couldn't care less about the chan folks.

Always remember: The loudest on the internet are not the most.