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@adidal Quora was a shithole from day one.

@Annalee OK. Thanks.

Hi, @Annalee. Is it OK for me to DM you about an invite to wandering.shop?

@mwlucas @Canageek @craigmaloney

This ought to be a manga where they're flailing at each other with grotesquely oversized swords.

I like what @Annalee is doing with threaded writer introductions. You introduce yourself, share a bit on what you write, and tag other writers.

But it seems limited to wandering.shop, and I think it inadvertently excludes unknown writers.

Let's federate this. If you're a writer, get in on the #MastoWriters hashtag and introduce yourself. Tell us a bit about what you write. Share your website if you have one. Tag other writers that you know.

@pzmyers If so, then I need to take my career of evil much more seriously than I have thus far.

@hypolite Not surprised. Most of these people belong in monasteries, but God is dead (sic semper tyrannis) and there are no monasteries for them to go. So they crowded women out of tech and fight tooth and nail against any attempt by women to reclaim space in tech.

@popefucker

That ain't hacking
That's the way you do it
Software for nothing
Runnin' BSD

Linus got away with being an abusive asshole as long as he did because our culture objectifies men by only valuing men for what they can DO.

As long as a man is USEFUL TO OTHERS, nothing else matters.

Linus could have been a rapist who stayed in shape by punting puppies, and nobody would have said anything as long as people thought Linux couldn't go on without him.

That's no longer the case, so Linus is no longer immune to criticism.

@emsenn Yes, and he's President of the United States. I am so terribly sorry.

@ajroach42 I think that's going back a little too far. I'd be content if people were taught to handle computers starting with the command line. Give people a shell account on a machine running OpenBSD. Start them off with the shell and ed. Once they've mastered ed, introduce them to ex and vi. From there progress to Emacs.

Once they've mastered the command line, introduce them to the X Window System and graphical apps. Make them start with cwm, of course. :)

@electrotamitha It depends on what BSD you're talking about. FreeBSD adopted a code of conduct back in February 2018, and lots of right-wing butthurt ensued.

OpenBSD still has Theo de Raadt as founder and head maintainer, and while I'm not involved in development it's my understanding that he makes Linus Torvalds look like Fred Rogers.

I want my
I want my
I want my BSD