• IΛM0DΛY
      3•2 years ago

      We could never know how it really went in theory, personally after various experiences I can firmly say that there are toxic people in almost all communities.

      • @davidsong@lemmy.ml
        3•2 years ago

        Yes there are, but I think the worst are political types who thrive in the shadows, hiding behind good decorum. I think the current climate of feigning offence tunes technical organisations so that the best manipulators of people rise to the top rather than the best technologists. But that might be my own personal bias speaking.

        But I think I found one of the websites they’re talking about. https://debian.community/ - it seems to be filled with hit pieces against the Debian team, accusing them of all sorts of ills.

        • IΛM0DΛY
          2•2 years ago

          As a site it is quite threatening in fact, it also reports current things that are pure fake news 🥲

          • @davidsong@lemmy.ml
            2•2 years ago

            It looks like someone who has an axe to grind and is picking apart everything that the Debian team do and showing it in the worst possible light, in a conspiratorial finger-poking style.

            Are there actually threats on there? Corruption, threats and blackmail seem to be the site’s main allegations, so I wouldn’t expect it to contain threats as that’d be hypocritical.

    • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
      2•2 years ago

      I have no solid basis for judgement either way, but I’ve run into people that sound spot on like Daniel when I’ve done community management type tasks. No matter the moral outrage, it always turns out there was more to the story that they were conveniently leaving out. They can be difficult to deal with because it is easier to smash apart decades of community development, while community managers have to be careful to maintain a level head and keep the community or organization going.