The hate against Mozilla currently wafting through fedi is perhaps the best example I've seen of toxic open source/free software religious fervor on mastodon
There's not a shred of compassion/empathy for what Mozilla is trying to do! At all!
Even if you think they're doing the wrong thing, why do you think being mean to them is going to get them to do the right thing?
I don't agree with their recent decisions either! I'm not awful about it!
Powerless People - Complaining or Not Complaining + Staying polite during morally questionable changes?
@danvolchek I think it comes from being powerless all round / all in all.
Almost like, "what else can they do?" ... I would actually ask you that too
(True we could hate less, but almost is like saying nothing while things get 'worse' is also not good and doesn't feel good meanwhile).
For me the answer is almost correcting things from the beginning of everything - almost everything (which is why people don't change or want to correct things because the same way they incremented on us to get here (for dependency, bad stuff etc) is the same way we have to increment out (by almost our own self if needs be and nobody else around to help figure it out).
I guess it's also reflective that 'Free' is still paying for things in some way so always at some point companies are going to do something not free or in line with it.... and that's a complaint about society too (I don't believe it has to be this way)/
For example, good things could be exempt from needing to pay so much taxes or 'already paid' in many ways after a certain time. Or just more people consider paying it forward until almost all of it is.
So... Being powerless - Complaining or Not Complaining / Staying polite during morally questionable things... not easy. And perhaps feelings of getting better?
And on the other side "You can't please everyone..." (which could be solved by allowing disabling / allowing opt-outs but of course that wouldn't be profitable as everyone would disable adverts and bad parts...
