alignedchaos@sh.itjust.workstolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Come to the Linux side of the force
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11 months agoThe same way we confuse earnestness with trash clickbait tactics I guess
The same way we confuse earnestness with trash clickbait tactics I guess
One thing at a time.
I don’t so much stop the thoughts—they’re inevitable—I redirect them back to “one thing at a time.”
Brian is my most recent answer to this question. Everyone’s so thoughtful and empathetic in that group, and then there was he with nothing but one-upping and sarcasm.
Pac-Man is about to hurl
In addition to the wealth of experiences and opinions in this thread, it is worth reminding:
2 is a really small sample size
You seem eager to pose this “if the product was undamaged” as if you can quantify what might have happened differently, but then in a comment below you ask someone else to prove that maintainers left.
It might shock you to learn that products are developed by people. Actual people stay or leave and work wildly differently based on things like respect, expectations, and being in a hostile environment.
Want proof of that? Go work on an actual project with a team sometime.
edit - And this isn’t even accounting for the ways toxic communication impedes wider adoption of a product