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[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 2 days ago

yeah i fully agree that heading a big project should require some sort of sensitivity training. but just like with linux, serenityos and ladybird have sort of become popular around andreas.

it took linus 25 years to finally give in, and his way of speaking before his therapy is just normal vernacular in finland. neither he nor andreas ever wanted to be public figures, and being the centre of a community naturally means you don't see the shit that people on the fringes say. if people hadn't started pushing back and made the leaders aware of the nazi shit there's a big chance they would have never seen it. you need experience with that stuff to see the signs from that position. linus eventually got that experience and changed his ways, but andreas hasn't gotten that chance yet.

also relevant; while linux is massively important, serenity and ladybird are super niche. so linux news get out there, but changes to ladybird governance don't, and people just keep talking about how bad the creator is even though he's not, and he's changed.