Post by @MaddieM4@raphus.social

2026-11-01 19:45 UTC

This is something I really particularly felt with the LibreOffice drama. Okay. There are people who are trying very hard to protect the world, to the degree they can. You want to make their lives significantly harder? And it's because you're unwilling to make your project very marginally less convenient for the people who are actively trying to burn the world down? Get the fuck out. And don't pretend to be an ally in my mentions.

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-11-01 19:59

The term "Nazi Bar" has been so relevant, and used so often, that it's starting to reach a point of semantic satiation, and bad actors are preying on that to say "but surely you don't mean this uwu smol bean first time contributor assisted by Claude is a Nazi?" When the point of the parable is that many social environments have mutual exclusion problems between two factions: 1. The people contributing to a friendly and open commons for as many people as possible, and 2. The people who want to pillage and/or gatekeep that commons. And you need to be able to identify the second category and make them unwelcome, as your only exception to friendly open access. Whereas so many open source projects seem to take the stance: "we are rebranding the restaurant to be a pork BBQ and every single product will need to contain pork. Our longtime vegan customers are welcome to continue participating as long as they don't cause drama." That is picking a side, and doing it badly.

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