> Rethink how we engage, respect them, respect their consent.
One way to characterize this is leadership. Most open source software authors are terrible leaders!
You’re way too polite. Brother, who is making a mistake and deserves blame? Users? Open source non corporate software maintainers? Google employees? Someone does. It can’t be “we.” I don’t make any of these mistakes, leave me out of it! I tell every non corporate open source maintainer to add basic anonymized telemetry, PR a specific opt-out solution with my preferred Plausible, and argue relentlessly with users to probe the vapors they base their telemetry fears on. We’re both trying to engage on the issue, but the average HN reader is downvoting me. Because “vibes.” Vibes are dumb! Just don’t be afraid to say it.
> Rethink how we engage, respect them, respect their consent.
One way to characterize this is leadership. Most open source software authors are terrible leaders!
You’re way too polite. Brother, who is making a mistake and deserves blame? Users? Open source non corporate software maintainers? Google employees? Someone does. It can’t be “we.” I don’t make any of these mistakes, leave me out of it! I tell every non corporate open source maintainer to add basic anonymized telemetry, PR a specific opt-out solution with my preferred Plausible, and argue relentlessly with users to probe the vapors they base their telemetry fears on. We’re both trying to engage on the issue, but the average HN reader is downvoting me. Because “vibes.” Vibes are dumb! Just don’t be afraid to say it.