• verassol@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What makes you think (“identity”) politics are unrelated to software development? Software development is deeply entrenched in politics. It’s just that, just as in most topics that don’t have politics as their main thing, a lot of people would rather pretend it’s not.

    Any community of people presupposes politics. If it doesn’t show, most likely it’s a very narrow or homogeneous group of people, which involves excluding/shunning others to defend this narrowness. So that has its own sort of problem too.

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      1 year ago

      What makes you think (“identity”) politics are unrelated to software development?

      The fact that the code quality is independent from your “identity” ?

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        yes because how a factory produces goods is independent from its workers well being, right?

        code is made by people, pushing away good contributors will lead to worse code, stressing contributors will lead to worse code, splitting contributor communities will lead to worse code

        if you really only care about code quality why are you bothered by identity talk? leave it to those affected and go back looking at code