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Look, the solution to FLOSS community issues is not to whine about them on your blog, that's just as toxic as what these folks are doing. It's rather to fork the project under a new name, so that potential contributors who dislike the toxicity (whether or not they're "in the right" about their particular dislikes) have a venue that they can resort to. Everything else is just a big distraction.

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> Look, the solution to FLOSS community issues is not to whine about them on your blog, that's just as toxic as what these folks are doing

It's not the same. A blog post is a great way of raising awareness of issues.

The thing about toxicity is that it's harmful to those who are most aware of it, such as marginalized folks. So 'raising awareness' is exactly what should not be done in this case! (Of course Drew is not fully cognizant of this, because of the entrenched privilege that's so common in the FLOSS space.) You should instead lower awareness, by offering something better as an alternative.

Are these same "marginalized folks" that the western establishment is nonstop promoting? (and has legislation that enforces their promotion).

Maybe but there's literally NO issue lol

There have been project that has been forked for these reasons. They never go anywhere because the people forking are not involved in the original community as dev.

That wouldn't let people make it about them instead of the project. Fundamentally that's what this stuff is, "my issue is most important" and trying to use popular language and concerns about things being "toxic" to pay attention to them. If they just did a fork, they'd actually have to develop software (or more likely split into groups that disagreed about some other political thing and fight about that)

And how is he supposed to do that? Drew's wlroots is open source so hyperland can use it whether he likes it or not.

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