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Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me like any time there's a controversy surrounding code of conducts (and just bad behavior in general) with open source projects, it's always on Github. Conversations on Gitlab by comparison always feel a lot more serious and professional.

That could just be due to numbers, since Github has way more people. The low barrier of entry to Github probably also contributes, since it attracts younger/less mature people. The social media features might also cause people to treat it like reddit or twitter, where being an asshole for no reason is normal behavior.

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> Conversations on Gitlab by comparison always feel a lot more serious and professional.

I doubt it, at least in my experience this has little to do with GitLab or GitHub.

> The low barrier of entry to Github

In this case no low barrier of entry is involved. There is no low barrier of entry to join the core Team. This is not drama because of a random person posting some random bs on GitHub.

you've missed the shitshow about renaming GIMP a year or two ago.

I tried looking for it now, but it seems the threads got purged

There's an article on The Register about it [1], which includes a helpful link to the archived threads [2].

A quote from the article:

> "I have, on two occasions now, recommended this program to photography and graphic design educators (as an alternative to Photoshop) who told me that they considered it and found it good as software but weren't permitted by their institution to use it in the classroom because of the name."

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/28/gimp_open_source_imag...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gn...

that's the one, thanks

> Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me like any time there's a controversy surrounding code of conducts (and just bad behavior in general) with open source projects, it's always on Github. Conversations on Gitlab by comparison always feel a lot more serious and professional.

That sounds like classic selection bias to me.

There are more projects on GitHub than GitLab so if the probability of any one project generating drama is the same between projects, one would expect more drama to come out of GitHub.

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