Post AzUFFKFYImPV0SdsYa by worik@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AzTzVCaax9Jkc9284e by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-10-22T23:36:32Z
       
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       Looks like there's been some corporate shitfuckery going on in the community for the Ruby programming language used by Mastodon (Ruby-on-Rails) and a few other fediverse software projects. Leading to a new Ruby Gem repository run as a democratic co-op;https://gem.coop/At least that's what I presume based on the .coop, which has careful caretakers checking applications to use it.#Ruby #GemCoop
       
 (DIR) Post #AzU14PDy4HM7tHnf3w by worik@mastodon.social
       2025-10-22T23:54:08Z
       
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       @strypey I've been following this. It is a debacle,  but raises some interesting points, and there are other cases around too.DHH is a nasty casually racist person. Should we be willing to use his software? Should we ban him from our forums?
       
 (DIR) Post #AzUFFKFYImPV0SdsYa by worik@mastodon.social
       2025-10-22T23:55:31Z
       
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       @strypey There is a project ( I forget which and it does not matter) where the maintainer said stupid shit using what should have been their inside voice, got challenged,  stopped, instituted ane enforced a code of conduct.Another (I remember and won't say) where the maintainer doubled down and "fuck you all"In the first case, is it a problem? In the second it is, IMO, no debate
       
 (DIR) Post #AzUFFLvm3HmIDhP70S by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-10-23T02:33:02Z
       
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       @worik sounds like you know much more about this than I do. The .coop was what intrigued me.Can you recommend a fair summary of events I can read to get up to speed? At this point Do you overall think the new gems.coop is a good thing or a bad thing and why?
       
 (DIR) Post #AzUJjDVYKfNabJdQyu by worik@mastodon.social
       2025-10-23T03:22:40Z
       
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       @strypey I cannot think of a summary, sorry. I've been following it in my news feeds. A search on Hacker News will turn up a lot. But not as a summary I realised your talking of the problems they had with the Ruby repository,  and I was talking about some other, related, personal problems with DHH, Ruby's creatorMultiple Ruby's repositories are probably a good thing. I think the problems on that front were overblown, over worked under resourced people doing their best. But I could be wrong