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Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

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[–] theroff@aussie.zone 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There have been many improvements in making documentation more inclusive across the IT industry which shouldn't be scoffed at. The first that comes to mind is changing "master" and "slave" to "primary" and "secondary" (or "replica" etc.) because references to slavery is inconsiderate to many.

I don't think pile-ons are productive, but I think inclusive language and thinking is important.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You must construct additional pile-ons.

[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I know. I just put it there for those readers not necessarily in the know.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Ah gotcha I thought you were correcting my spelling haha. My mistake!

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

And I specifically thank you for it. I didn't know there was a meta reference going on. Upvoted @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com for excellent joke craft on account of it