Post by @somegeek@programming.dev

2026-10-25 06:27 UTC

People in FOSS community (including users) nitpick way too much about eachother’s ethics and are mostly dictators so they expect everybody’s views to align with themselves and each sub-community/individual see themselves as the source of moral balance. “oh no one of project XYZ maintainers doesn’t like trans people we should boycott the project and fork it into LibreLGBTQXYZ” be professional ffs. See the project as the software and it’s technicality, art, science and engineering. we can’t be too picky about individual people’s beliefs and ethics especially in current situations.

Replies (6)

@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-10-25 06:40

“I will happily promote the project of a person who openly says people like me should be shot. What’s the problem?”

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@JackbyDev@programming.dev 2026-10-25 08:43

be professional ffs You lost me here. It’s not “unprofessional” to want people to not be transphobic.

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@marcela@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-25 10:36

Transphobia is now what antisemitism was during the Holocaust. This framing of trans rights being pulverized as an edge-case moral purity signaling is low-key genocide enabler discourse. It is only a matter to be careful to set boundaries to the centrism so that it doesn’t bleed over to the nazi side. That being said, weaponized purity in online politics, and online software politics specifically might be a problem, sometimes. Minimal gain and huge inconvenience to the resistance, but I won’t go into it right now.

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@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 11:01

Transphobia is unprofessional. So is any other kind of bigotry.

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@nykula@piefed.social 2026-10-25 11:05

For professional stuff I expect to get paid. What’s professional about spending my free time in the company of abusers that I’m not even getting any money for?

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@menas@lemmy.wtf 2026-10-25 11:07

If we would tolerate intolerant people, we would expose segregate people to even more segregation. However, ban their communities and using their code is not the same thing. If pirating video game make by shitty person is okay, why not looting FOSS production ?

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