Comment by sethaurus

3 months ago

Could you expand on what ideology this tool is broadcasting and what virtue is being signalled?

>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please.

Take a wild guess

  • Well that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?

    • The proximity with that rough cultural area is only incidental, I think. In fact, I think if you sit around for 10 mlre years, the tide will have entirely turned.

      I'm not gonna get into detail, but for me, some defining elements:

      - A compulsive need to criticize, demean and replace every piece of code written in C by Rust (rarely, it's another language).

      - A willingness and strong activism to separate from figures that created the FOSS landscape, like Richard Stallman.

      - A sort of laxism towards non-free software, and a particularly cringy hype towards corporate lip service paid to OSS, or trojan horses.

      - Subtle propositions made to consolide FOSS communities around centralized services, and promiting those.

      This isn't exhaustive, because it's just off the top of my head.

  • Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.

    • Also, you do know the

      > Please show me on the doll where this stranger hurt you

      phrasing is pretty closely associated with child abuse investigations, right? I don't know why you'd associate gender identity with that?