I very rarely see such behavior on the Fedi, and it fills me with hopelessness.
You can be a better person. You can feel angry and exhausted without hurting those on your side of the struggle.
Oct 22, 2026, 4:35 AM@afilina I suspect spillover from the way people jockey for in-group status by loudly extolling the group's favorite programming language, code editor, etc. and denigrating the rest. It's hard to unlearn. Not an excuse, but possibly an explanation. [sorry in advance if this is obvious and I'm just explaining your point back to you]
Oct 22, 2026, 5:15 AM@iris @afilina It has always been "in" to hate on PHP after seeing it once at version 3.1. That is decades ago, it has evolved a lot.
Those open source people is doing this work even though they know there are billion dollar companies using their work for free every day. Running their complete businesses on it without even thinking about donating as much as a bugfix even.
And the biggest of them all instead of helping and contributing, made their own version and ran off with it...