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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev -4 points 3 months ago

Because I don't want to be forced to adapt by others. Let me adapt by myself. Adding an option for change is fine, but changing the default is fucking annoying. Fuck Github for changing master.

[-] bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Because I don’t want to be forced to adapt by others.

We are all forced all the time to follow social norms. Short of moving to a cabin in the woods, this is inescapable, for better or worse. In this master/main debate it seems like we can make some people happy with minimal cost. In the end it is a tiny irrelevance, when compared to other norms being changed.

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