The person doing free labor and providing open source software doesn’t use the preferred vocabulary… Still a net positive, no reason to brigade their issue tracker for wrong think.
Encouraging the internet to harass a volunteer is low.
Nothing stopping people from forking the project changing the vocabulary, and maintaining their fork. But that’s more work than drive by hate
Are people here reading the whole mastodon thread?
it is 200% okay to bully them into submission
Sounds rather toxic, and also counterproductive.
I think it’s pretty stupid of the developer to have that attitude. I think it’s equally as stupid to advocate against using a piece of software because of that, though
I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.
Not really perfectionism just grammar
I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.
I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”
There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.
