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Linux users failing to respect trans Linux developers (awful.systems)

submitted 5 days ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Sorry, no sneer today. I'm tired of this to the point where I'm dreaming up new software licenses.

A trans person no longer felt safe in our community and is no longer developing. In response, at least four different forums full of a range of Linux users and developers (Lemmy #1, Lemmy #2, HN, Phoronix (screenshot)) posted their PII and anti-trans hate.

I don't have any solutions. I'm just so fucking disappointed in my peers and I feel a deep inadequacy at my inability to get these fuckwads to be less callous.

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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's "the orange site"?

I don't have any interest in seeking out people being shitty, so I don't want to hunt through the links to figure out which site you are referring to.

[–] self@awful.systems 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

once upon a time a guy named paully sucked at lisp, but most people couldn’t tell so they figured he must be good at it

then he made a website that was an ugly orange color, and everyone assumed it was ugly on purpose even though every web site paully makes is ugly and barely functions under load

then paully implemented moderation structures on the orange site that both cloak and enable discrimination and bullying, and everyone figured that couldn’t be correct because the orange site said it had good moderation

and now paully’s godawful startup accelerator is run by openly fascist little freaks and all it does anymore is AI, but the orange site says it’s prestigious and not at all a multi-layered affinity grift

the moral of the story is fuck paul graham

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks! I don't think I've ever gone there from more than a headline and out, but given the type of people who would be into a "startup accelerator", seems to fit that it would be a bunch of shitty takes on... Just about everything.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

HN is a site for temporarily embarrassed billionaires who desire nothing so much as the blessing of Paul Graham and Garry Tan, so there's a lot of competitive bootlicking

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

so there's a lot of competitive bootlicking

I briefly thought "that could be funny to watch", then thought "oh no, oh no no no! That would be horrifying to watch!"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 4 days ago

QoL of not knowing orange site things is probably a measure better than knowing them, so you're ahead a bit on that round

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hacker News, one of the sites this specific discussion community is about, per the sidebar

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

Got it, thanks!