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This is why I hate the FOSS community. Everyone freaks out and cries wolf the second a platform doesn't share their political opinion, even if it's completely irrelevant to privacy or FOSS.
Personally, I'd want my software to value basic human decency, no matter how good the code is. If the developer lashes out at an inclusive change in a single line of documentation, I'm not using that browser even if it could solve my taxes.
This is just my take though, and if you want to use the browser, then go for it.
Where do you draw the line though? I feel like that's a slippery slope.
I'm not sure I understood; a line for what?
I'll try to answer based on what I think you meant: if there is a software with a person with undesirable views in control of it, I'd try to boycott that software if feasible.
Foss certainly aligns better with left-wing philosophies, i don't think far-right need to be widely accepted in these communities
Calling someone far-right for not wanting to implement a useless pronouns feature is a bit wild.
Not necessarily far right, but that implies they might be far right. i think if someone is cis female, her, if cis male then he, if other, they (unless something else is explicitly stated). I don't think it really hurts anyone to call them the way they wish, but rightists usually do
let me provide you an analogy to what you're saying.
"The US appeals to right wing philosophies so the left doesn't need to be accepted"
what do you think?
Just like what a rightist would say. Also 2 "people" downvoting my comment is wild
I don't think performative politics is a FOSS community problem. It's more of an whole Internet problem.
It's really bad on lemmy and reddit.
Reddit has much bigger problems, like unfair moderation, and a lot of creepy people
This is not about "the FOSS community". It doesn't matter if you developed closed-source or open-source, doesn't matter if you license your software with AGPL or NULA, if you make a comment that's seemingly transphobic/misogynistic, people WILL freak out.
The reason you might see this occur more frequently in open-source spaces could be sue to the fact that issue trackers and PRs provide much less filtered responses than corporate social media accounts and blogs.
Obviously the FOSS community has a heavy left wing bias. I personally haven't heard anything about Proton or Ladybird being controversial outside of Lemmy and Reddit. Clearly It's not just about transphobia and sexism (which I think is an overreaction). A lot of people in the FOSS community left Proton just because of one positive tweet about Trump (from an Asian immigrant living in Switzerland). I think it's really unhealthy for the FOSS community to jump ship the second a platform doesn't share their political opinions.