• bigfondue@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I’ve heard people say that in academia, the competition is fierce because the stakes are so low. I think FOSS is the same.

    • Cris@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Thats an interesting idea. That contrasts against how I’d kind of thought of it as being similar to the internal toxicity and infighting of the political left

      Some of the toxic patterns kind of remind me of purity testing and the same attacking people for being “one of the bad guys” when there isn’t truly good reasons tho think they are

      I appreciate another perspective to consider, thank you for sharing your thoughts