@metacosm That isn't something that was clear to me when I signed up. 11 months ago. Making Irish posts the entire time, and only now nearly a year later I'm told it's a problem.
You know a lot of servers set up with a default set of policies / pages from upstream and don't edit those.
@mmu_man No excuse. If it's an open, volunteer, FOSS oriented community, you simply solicit volunteers in the needed languages. Instead of - in effect - telling an Irish speaker (of ALL languages) to stop speaking Irish and speak the Queen's tongue.
@mmu_man The wording in the email and in the policy blog post are definitely all their own. When I signed up in October 2022, I have no idea if I got the default policy text or not in the sign up flow.
I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are NOT welcome on Fosstodon.
Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.
I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD
@kev@victorvicpal No, it's not a circle. Your language in the policy post and in the email alerts is in dire need of attention. I'm leaving regardless. But you're dealing with 60k users irresponsibly leaving those texts as-is.
@kev@victorvicpal I keep expressing the urgency of fixing your docs and emails. You keep accusing me of going in circles and limit the scope of my concern to my account. My leaving will not fix your docs and emails.
@artfulsodger@kev Oh thank you so much for your helpful service of reporting my minority language post that talked about how I really enjoyed the book I am reading. What a service you provide!
The mods could do well without the colonialism. Providing a helpful service doesn't excuse the framing and language towards non-English speakers.
@artfulsodger@kev Clearly you believe you have all the answers and know better than I. Far be it from me to disabuse you of that notion. I'm just a simple 20+ year upstream open source contributor who happens to believe very deeply that language diversity is critical and an importat value in our broader FOSS community, which I believe this server no longer serves. Thanks for your part in exposing this issue to me by reporting my Irish tweet. I am working to pull the @fedora account as well.
@artfulsodger@kev@fedora No longer do I believe this server deserves the credibility it's received in the FOSS community. I refuse to legitimize it. Excuse this deplorable policy all you want. It's simply wrong, and against core open source values.