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A downside to researching the current mood and morale among software developers is the frequent sudden onset Nazi praise.
Like, you're watching somebody's kinda half-baked ideas on how the software economy works on YouTube, but it's all from their perspective so still useful information about their experience, and suddenly you get a spiel about how DHH or some other outright fascist is great.
Dude. You had me sympathising with you for a couple of minutes there.
@baldur I remember a video game reviewer I liked, many years ago, was just livestreaming a game he was playing and apropos of nothing just goes on a vicious xenophobic rant. And it's like, did you get bored of having followers, or are you actively trying to filter for people it's safe to be a POS around?
@mattmay The worst ones, though, are the ones who are just being themselves. This is just what they think is normal. Makes you wonder what kind of people they hang out with.
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@baldur this reminds me that it’s time to sit down and write a “yes you need a code of conduct for your OSS project that explicitly rejects nazis” thing, because it’s definitely not a vague theoretical thing any more.
I have a faint hope that more than zero people will start being better about community management in their projects. Maybe even three people will do it.