@alexcleac@mastodon.technology honestly, i think that ranting is in some cases a useful thing to do.
purism is at this moment trying to sell people a product that i and many others consider fundamentally broken and unsafe to use (removing report feature, not taking reports from other instances). they are doing this while also saying "our product is the safest and most ethical to use".
it's sort of like... having a really bad meal at a restaurant, let's say. (con't because i can't say anything succinctly) >
@alexcleac@mastodon.technology now, there is definitely a point at which it just becomes whining.
but imagine you went to a restaurant and ordered the chicken and came back raw, which is dangerous and unsafe to eat. and when pressed, the restaurant said that the chef serves all chicken raw in the middle.
you'd tell your friends to not eat there, right? that's food that is dangerous to eat. and you'd probably rag on them hard in your review for touting that it's the most healthy food ever.>
@alexcleac@mastodon.technology if a company is selling a product that is unsafe, especially while talking up how ethical and safe their product is, at that point it becomes an ethical requirement to warn other people that it is an unsafe thing.
not only is this an unsafe thing by itself, but it's introducing unsafe things to the larger masto ecosystem (by totally removing any "hey, your user is harassing ours!" report functionality).
this is something that is not just whining, but instead MUST be warned about.
@alexcleac@mastodon.technology i know that you might be feeling as if this is purposeless, or imagining yourself in purism's shoes.
however, *you're not the one trying to get money for an unsafe product*. and if you think that open-source development should be characterised by this attitude - "give us money for stuff that doesn't work and is unsafe for people to use, and don't dare talk against it because that's just ranting" - well -
try doing something better?
