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@[email protected] to Free and Open Source [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
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    I don’t like Lemmy’s stance on mod features, but I still don’t appreciate people who stress devs to add features because users are the most important.

    It should instead be we will not use your software otherwise.

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      What is this “stance on mod features” that you are talking about?

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        Probably the ones outlined here, which you should be aware of, given there are statements from you included in the article: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

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          I dont have time to read all that. The problem with Beehaw is that the admins are extremely entitled, as if we had some obligation to work for them for free. Similar to what is described in OP.

          However we are consistently improving the mod tools, and accept contributions in that area. You can see in the dev updates.

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