It makes me sad because initially I was so excited for Ladybird. Finally a new browser engine instead of another shitty chrome fork. Then I find out what and absolute douche canoe the developer was and killed all of my excitement.
He moved from Sweden to Silicon Valley, made a bunch of money, but came to hate the “limousine liberal” culture, and felt he was severely discriminated against (in a professional sense) as a hetero white man.
So he left California, got sober, and went full time FOSS developer.
He is an asshole because he now enforces a strict “anti-woke” policy among his contributors, and bans anyone who falls out of line. It’s one thing to ban controversial or political topics, but his interpretation takes things way past any semblance of reason.
A wild one i remember was when he banned someone for using singular they in some documentation, which has been a part of the English language since the Norman period at least. He said it was “political language”.
Dang, I was not aware of any of this. A quick search pulls up a bunch of stuff. I’ll look more into it for sure, but come on, can’t we just have nice things?
I think there is a difference between having strong views and enforcing them on others, but also context is important.Also not all extreme views are equally harmful/harmless.
I’ve also heard the Lemmy dev has some bad takes (to perhaps put it mildly) but i’ve found the community to be mostly quite civil
That’s a fair point. I’ve moved away from lemmy instances for this reason, but if piefed didn’t exist I’d reluctantly use another lemmy instance, but not lemmy.ml and won’t participate there.
What is ladybird?
A new FOSS browser made by a complete and utter asshole
It makes me sad because initially I was so excited for Ladybird. Finally a new browser engine instead of another shitty chrome fork. Then I find out what and absolute douche canoe the developer was and killed all of my excitement.
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He moved from Sweden to Silicon Valley, made a bunch of money, but came to hate the “limousine liberal” culture, and felt he was severely discriminated against (in a professional sense) as a hetero white man.
So he left California, got sober, and went full time FOSS developer.
He is an asshole because he now enforces a strict “anti-woke” policy among his contributors, and bans anyone who falls out of line. It’s one thing to ban controversial or political topics, but his interpretation takes things way past any semblance of reason.
A wild one i remember was when he banned someone for using singular they in some documentation, which has been a part of the English language since the Norman period at least. He said it was “political language”.
very in depth, thank you
Yeah I won’t be supporting this browser.
Dang, I was not aware of any of this. A quick search pulls up a bunch of stuff. I’ll look more into it for sure, but come on, can’t we just have nice things?
Yeah me too. Didn’t know. Frustrated. I was hopeful that ladybird was going to save us.
In fairness, the lemmy lead dev also has some… very strongly held ideological views incompatible with my own… yet here we are.
I think there is a difference between having strong views and enforcing them on others, but also context is important.Also not all extreme views are equally harmful/harmless.
I’ve also heard the Lemmy dev has some bad takes (to perhaps put it mildly) but i’ve found the community to be mostly quite civil
That’s a fair point. I’ve moved away from lemmy instances for this reason, but if piefed didn’t exist I’d reluctantly use another lemmy instance, but not lemmy.ml and won’t participate there.