• featherfurl@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The gatekeeping I was referring to is giving people shit for being weebs, furries, etc. etc. Feels skeezy and moralistic. One of my favourite things about the Linux community is how openly eccentric so many people are. Even if it isn’t my aesthetic it’s way less contrived than the bland wastelands that corporate culture generates.

    It wasn’t really relevant to your question, but you do you, weeb OP.

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      Gatekeeping (communication) Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication.

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        5 months ago

        Linking to upstream source instead of copying answer that will be outdated is neither gatekeeping nor “RTFM toxicity”

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          I never said rtfm is toxic but it is well known how toxic arch community used to be. Im very much referring to that.

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        That is certainly one use of the word gatekeeping. Another common use of the word is:

        “when someone takes it upon themselves to decide who does or does not have access or rights to a community or identity”.

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          You got it mixed up. I am not restricting one to let others in. Being a creep is not normal and it isn’t gatekeeping to say cosplaying little girls is not normal.

          And all the down votes prove how much this is normalized in linux communuty which gets us all bad rep.