I feel like almost every single piece of software has some problematic dev that has racism, transphobia, or both. I recently read a post about the calc key devs and sighed *facepalm. It is honestly really annoying cause I want friends to use Fedi but than you can pull up a whole laundry list of problems with the devs and it’s like (welp, signing up for threads). I feel like people care a ton when it’s the small instance, vs a megacorp. Like Meta has a horrible issue with transphobia and racism but it only seems to matter if it’s a smaller project for some reason

  • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    Why? What do I care about the devs? It’s open source so it doesn’t matter. The code belongs to anyone who wants to use it.

    • @skymtf@pricefield.orgOPEnglish
      -2•11 months ago

      yeah, I mean that’s one take. I feel like it’s debatable. I guess them not wanting to use calckey is about the same as me not wanting to use soapbox. I feel like politics of devs matter more when your marginalized, and while calckey issues don’t effect me as a mostly white Hispanic I feel like it effects people of color more.

      • @skymtf@pricefield.orgOPEnglish
        0•11 months ago

        I feel like it’s more or less an ethical thing more than anything. I guess in a way it feels stupid coming from me who is using a software built by tankies (who I disagree with)

        • @Ohthereyouare@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•11 months ago

          Okay. Finally, after a month here, I’ll bite.

          Who said it was built by tankies? I’m not saying it wasn’t. But, afaik, ActivityPub was developed by W3C.

          Are they tankies? They don’t strike me as tankies, but I’ve been wrong before. People keep saying the Fediverse was built by tankies, and I guess I’m missing some history, because as far as I can tell, there may have been some tankies, but it doesn’t seem built by tankies.

          Even now, Lemmygrad is small. They’re annoying as fuck. And they’re pervasive on Lemmy. But, it’s not like there’s a lot of them.

          So, if anyone feels like bringing me up to speed on the history of the Fediverse, I’m extremely eager to learn.

          • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
            3•11 months ago

            Don’t know the history of Fediverse, but the two main devs of Lemmy are self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninists. But as I stated above - what do I care? It’s open source, the code doesn’t belong to them.