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Personally, I would accept a PR from a convicted murderer if the code was good. It would be a problem I would have to have meetings with this person but if he just submits code why would I care? There are no political opinions in code. It's not like code written by a rapist somehow pollutes my codebase.
Yeah the code might be fine. But if I want to support the development of Lemmy, say with a donation, am I financially supporting a piece of shit?
I'm not saying every contributor has to be thoroughly vetted, or that I have to agree politically with every contributor. It just feels icky, and I get the concern users have.
I donate to Lemmy.world but that doesn't go to this Lemmy dev in question, only Ruud and his team. You can donate to specific instance admins who aren't batshit crazy hateful scumbags and support the growth of healthy instances.
Interesting point. Well, if it's up to me I would even share the donations with this piece of shit. Because what do you mean by "supporting him"? Letting him earn some money by doing work? What's the alternative? Letting him starve to death? Personally I'm against death penalty so I do believe that even the worst piece of shit has the right to work and earn living. And frankly, writing code seams to be perfect way for such a person to do it: they are not around other people so no one is in danger and they are not spreading his sick opinions. And people like this earning their living are better than society maintaining them out of our taxes.
It absolutely does not make anything 'icky', it's a silly way to look at it, childish really. If a convicted murder bags your groceries is your food icky? If a child rapist cleans your street is the street icky?
And here we're not talking about murder or rape, just some online posts. Opinions don't taint code. I know people like to cancel everyone now but this is really getting absurd. The only "concern" users have is a concern that this week they didn't get outraged enough and didn't cancel enough people.
Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.
Code is completely separate from the community. Community is formed by people and code is just bunch of instructions. What if a fascist forks your projects and adds features to it? It your code fascists now? Does your community support fascists? Of course not. And if a fascist submits a patch to your project and you accept it it does not mean you're collaborating with fascists now and your projects is tainted. That's just absurd. "You're a bad person so I will not merge this bugfix, I will write the exact same fix by myself so that my code stays pure".