I feel like almost every single piece of software has some problematic dev that has racism, transphobia, or both. I recently read a post about the calc key devs and sighed *facepalm. It is honestly really annoying cause I want friends to use Fedi but than you can pull up a whole laundry list of problems with the devs and it’s like (welp, signing up for threads). I feel like people care a ton when it’s the small instance, vs a megacorp. Like Meta has a horrible issue with transphobia and racism but it only seems to matter if it’s a smaller project for some reason

  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Well, the good news is that the “fediverse” is actually built on a web standard (ActivityPub), which you implement in any software you want. :) What that means is that the “the fediverse” is more comparable to “the web” than to a given social network. There are people building websites you won’t agree with, same goes with fediverse software. Move on and find those that you like, or build them. The fact that it’s built on web standards mean that anyone can decide to add their own software without concerting with anyone else, without asking permission from anyone else, you just build and publish. That’s what made the web so strong since its beginning, and that’s IMO a core advantage of ActivityPub compared to other decentralization projects.

    • skymtf@pricefield.orgOPEnglish
      38·
      1 year ago

      I know this!, the issue is 90% of people don’t. If the devs on calckey are semi problematic they won’t use it and use threads, bsky, or honestly just twitter. I feel like they hold foss software to a higher standard.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        If the devs on calckey are semi problematic they won’t use it and use threads, bsky, or honestly just twitter.

        So they conclude that someone working on a piece of open source software is “semi problematic” (although quite how they are on why this impacts the project) and yet they’ll use software from companies run by a soulless android laser-focused on world domination or flaming trashcan of old memes in human form hellbent on burning the world down around him?

        I think you need better friends and I think your friends need a slap. This doesn’t seem to be a problem with Fediverse software and more an issue with the critical thinking ability of those you hang around with.

      • Leraje@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m curious as I’m ignorant of this - what problematic behaviour has the Calckey dev demonstrated?