@ska @dalias @david_chisnall @danirabbit

> Is the hostility still prevalent today?

i got into linux and foss recently (well, in the past ~4 years) (tho also i'm a trans woman (so unsure if my input is helpful at all))

while most of the spaces i'm in are still mostly full of men, i don't really feel the hostility that teen me would feel in a lot of places spaces (granted, back then non-foss ones, but still tech and gaming spaces)

the few spaces i've been in that are not mostly men, are my fedi bubble which is mostly trans women, and during fossdem earlier this year, where gf and i got randomly invited to a women & queer only breakfast -- that was one of the very few times i've actually interacted with cis women in a foss spaces/context

the spaces i found online are most men, and sometimes there's a few bubbles with gender queer folks, mostly trans women, and i barely ever see cis women around

and honestly i got kinda lucky still, since when i first wanted to leave arch linux and try a non-systemd distro (so around 2021), i picked gentoo simply because i watched a video about it, and it seemed cool

gentoo's community was kind of my first step to participating in foss more than just as a user, i met one of the devs, and made friends -- that community was welcoming, and from there i interacted with foss more, with wayland folks, started writing my first openrc patches, and so on

but just as well i could've tried artix which was suggested to me, and that community is, by what i've been told and the bits i've interacted with, not good for one's mental health, it has the hostility mentioned, with extra "alt-right" polities of modern "no politics here only code" foss -- similar things could happen if i had taken any interest on hyprland over sway back then too, if i had fell into one of those communities first, there's a high likelihood i would've quit this whole foss communities thing