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Jesus christ people. Someone explicitly tells you why they can't use open-source stuff for its poor accessibility, and you all choose to respond by going "it's not that bad"? What is wrong with you??? How do you STILL miss the fucking point of the post
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Like, I assign great value to the ideas behind open-source, but it's shit like this that makes me wonder whether I actually want to have
anything to do with the broader "open-source community" because it sometimes feels like nobody wants to ask themselves any questions beyond the LICENSE.md
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@joepie91 The last people who should be entrusted with the promise of open source are the open source community ;-)
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@freakazoid @joepie91 honestly sometimes it feels like a separate open source/free/whatever you wanna call it, idk, community needs to be set up with inclusivity and anti-toxicity built in from day one, and all the fuckers from the current FOSS culture just, not let anywhere near it 💀
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@hazelnot @freakazoid https://starshipgender.com/disability-driven-development/index.html is a long read but probably very relevant to this topic
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@hazelnot Such communities already exist around certain projects, typically those with a decent CoC that's actually enforced. I wonder if there are any conferences that have their own rules and leadership or topic focus that repel the toxic folks? If not, it seems like that might be a good place to start.
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@joepie91 Robert is one of my favorite people on here and I just want to reach through the screen and throttle the people being clueless assholes in his mentions
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And yes I *will* bite if you try to take this thread as an invitation to continue arguing the point, and you are going to get the unfiltered version of my criticism, so you should make very very sure that that is actually what you want before trying to dispute this