Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a “big tent” after a Debian developer objected to the company’s sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.

Antoine Beaupré, aka anarcat, demanded that Framework clarify its political position with regard to these two projects.

Hyprland, a Wayland compositor, is led by a “toxic and hateful community,” Beaupré observed, and Omarchy, a Linux distribution, comes from David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), a controversial figure in the Ruby and Linux communities.

  • Senal@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    TL;DR;

    It’s weird to be upset at people for having personal boundaries/morals/ethics.

    Using “purity test” like a pejorative, because using a more accurate term makes your argument sound bad, is a bad faith approach.

    You say “purity tests” like it’s some sovcit term imbued with magical powers, like DEI or woke.

    Headcanon replace it with “personal ethics and morals” and you might see how some of those arguments are really just people having boundaries.

    An example of what i mean.

    This is the biggest issue with niche communities: purity tests.

    They can’t unite under one goal and have productive discussions. They are more focused on being correct (their interpretation of correct) and shutting out the incorrect than getting closer to a goal. Sometimes incorrect can be as little as choosing the wrong utility and other times it can be much bigger but they all spark the same amount of ire.

    vs

    This is the biggest issue with niche communities: personal ethics and morals.

    They can’t unite under one goal and have productive discussions. They are more focused on being correct (their interpretation of correct) and shutting out the incorrect than getting closer to a goal. Sometimes incorrect can be as little as choosing the wrong utility and other times it can be much bigger but they all spark the same amount of ire.

    See how the rest of that statement sounds without the bad faith, magic-word interpretation ?

    I’m not expecting any good faith arguments in response, so don’t worry, this was a just-in-case kind of thing.

    • onlinepersona@programming.dev
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Great argument there. Replace what I say with whatever you think it says and go on from there. Should I just do the same with yours and we’ll see what kind of nonsense comes out? I’m sure that would be in your interpretation of “good faith”.

      But don’t worry, I don’t expect a coherent response. This was a just-in-case kind of thing 😉

      • Senal@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Great argument there. Replace what I say with whatever you think it says and go on from there.

        I mean, yes… that is what i did… i explained as i did it.

        Should I just do the same with yours and we’ll see what kind of nonsense comes out? I’m sure that would be in your interpretation of “good faith”.

        Was this a preface to actually doing this? is there a part of the text missing ?