If I would put all the eggs on a basket, I will prefer Servo.
I'm tired of people who are doing such great work being labeled politically over things like pronoun preferences and somehow this is supposed to make us wish for the projects failure OR the founder's expulsion from his own project.
(oh dear I forgot to imagine the project lead could also be female - damn you English language!)
Me no. And 20 or 30 years some people used to care about that stuff. The same thing could be said about if it's opensource or not.
PD: So yes, I don't have any account now on that site that was called "Twitter".
For the decision itself, I don't see how he should be put in some extreme political camp for that. I think that's probably hard to understand for anyone outside the US / culture wars bubble.
Same way nobody asked him to plaster pride flags over his project, but he went to the step of telling a contributor to please remove a flag from their avatar because showing that avatar in his project would be "political".
Did I miss a controversy somewhere?
Yeah well tell me how a Web browser in the 2020s is not an ideological device. I'll wait.
Because there is nothing wrong in protecting your project from ideologues who do a drive by PR just to further their cause.
There is nothing wrong in preventing your project from being used as an vehicle for someone else's ideology.
