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My problem with the software development community is that it's like 95% people who will do whatever a tech company with slick marketing says is right, and 5% people who rebel against the status quo but for the wrong reasons so they never get anything done.
Why is it so difficult to find people who actually approach tech intersectionally?
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@hazelnot That, but also the more subtle stuff like necrocomputing, faux minimalism, etc.- all the stuff signified by people complaining about unspecified 'bloat'.
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@hazelnot (Not that there's not a lot of overlap with fascism for those, but the venn diagram is not *entirely* a circle)
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@joepie91 I'm not entirely sure what necrocomputing means, but the anti-bloat people have the weird tendency to be Nazis if suckless is any indication 💀
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@hazelnot Necrocomputing is like the evil little brother of retrocomputing; where it is no longer just about personally enjoying old or nostalgic stuff, but about actually claiming that it is superior to anything newer, that it could not possibly be improved upon, and that we should all go back to whatever the old thing is.
There's generally (at least) a significant amount of ableism and classism involved in the rationale, such as declaring modern accessibility features to be 'bloat'.
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@joepie91 yeah it's honestly incomprehensible to me how some people will go "corporate software is woke so I made this piece of free software because I'm a fascist" and don't even see the contradiction between their ideology and their actions