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Slow week so I'll comment on some connections between SS14 and the rest of open source happenings.
1) PJB commented on Hector Martin's resignation, expressing support. (archive) They both were quite early adopters of Mastodon, which is something I haven't seen outside of open source weirdos. Besides Bluesky everyone seems to use one of dozens of incel fediverse instance with stuff like tech.uwu.groomer.lgbt. Their posts get no engagement from what I can see. What is the appeal of the fediverse stuff?
2) SS14's 40% of top contributors being trans doesn't seem so ridiculous any more after Rust polled at 35%.

Previously the working theory was that these insane, ridiculous, unbelievable numbers were the result of Spacemans being the center of open source, ERP, furries, femstatics, etc which all fed each into each other and led to such an anomalous result. Now, with Rust, I have no explanation. Yeah it has a reputation as being tranny-associated but it's, whether you like it or hate it, a competent technical product that can be used in a serious manner to any other popular programming language. That SS14 number is probably a bit higher now; I'm seeing pronouns in bios of people who didn't have them last July. What the fuck is going on? Surely there has to be an upper limit we'll hit soon to how many open source autistic guys can troon out. Is it literally just autism?
1) PJB commented on Hector Martin's resignation, expressing support. (archive) They both were quite early adopters of Mastodon, which is something I haven't seen outside of open source weirdos. Besides Bluesky everyone seems to use one of dozens of incel fediverse instance with stuff like tech.uwu.groomer.lgbt. Their posts get no engagement from what I can see. What is the appeal of the fediverse stuff?
2) SS14's 40% of top contributors being trans doesn't seem so ridiculous any more after Rust polled at 35%.

Previously the working theory was that these insane, ridiculous, unbelievable numbers were the result of Spacemans being the center of open source, ERP, furries, femstatics, etc which all fed each into each other and led to such an anomalous result. Now, with Rust, I have no explanation. Yeah it has a reputation as being tranny-associated but it's, whether you like it or hate it, a competent technical product that can be used in a serious manner to any other popular programming language. That SS14 number is probably a bit higher now; I'm seeing pronouns in bios of people who didn't have them last July. What the fuck is going on? Surely there has to be an upper limit we'll hit soon to how many open source autistic guys can troon out. Is it literally just autism?
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