Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

  • refalo@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Because in recent years they have been weaponizing gender politics to try to “cancel” good projects for no reason.

    “Silence is violence”, forced CoC adoption, over-zealous use of the word “transphobe”, ridiculous terminology changes (master/slave etc.), attempts to ban “wrongthink”, you name it.

    And if you don’t comply, they come after you in every way possible, often with a few dedicated individuals dedicating all of their free time to investigating every possible company the project touches and then attacking them too, as well as doxxing everyone in their path. Like when recently tier-1 ISPs took it upon themselves to blackhole some websites from the whole planet? That was them too. EFF even wrote multiple articles about it.