[ursuscamp]

OSS is increasingly bisecting into two camps, and you can tell which camp they are in depending on whether their developers use X or Mastodon/Bluesky.

[Ancapistani]

It's 100% oriented around the US political compass, too.

I noticed this in ~2012 in the Python community. PyCon 2013 was the last "real PyCon" in my eyes. That was "Donglegate" happened, and was the last TiP BoF.

Since then it's only increased both in both scale and scope.

The politics of each "side" completely aside, it has worried me for a long time that the division has infected F/OSS as well, and weakened it as a result.

[kbelder]

It's best to ignore such things.

[LopovJack]

How much degradation are you wiling to observe before you conclude maybe it should not be ignored?

[kbelder]

Caring about whether a user is on team 'x' or team 'bluesky' is the degradation.