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If that's correct good for him. Seriously.

The same people who might cheer you up, when you're creating drama, are the ones who silently avoid you when it comes to working together. Because drama is only fun when it affects other people, not you.

And going by what Simona Vetter said in the mailing list, this is not the first time:

[Vetter] And this isn't the first time or the second, by now it's a pretty clear pattern over some years. And with the first I could explain why you [Hector Martin] react like that and you had my full understanding, but eventually that runs a bit thin as an excuse. Now I'm left with the unlikely explanation that you just like thundering in as the cavalry, fashionably late, maximally destructive, because it entertains the masses on fedi [Mastodon?] or reddit or wherever.

And being off social media will both decrease the odds Martin creates drama, and reduce the visibility of the drama he creates.

It’s brigading to go on social media platforms and complain about the people you work with in order to exert outside pressure on them. You’re bypassing the formal processes of discussion and consensus-building and trying to leverage informal power you have. This tends to make people very angry and reluctant to work with you no matter what.

Linux is an open source project, not a democracy. If you want to contribute you have to follow their rules.

To add to what @[email protected] said, I'll use an example.

Alice and Bob are organising a party. Alice claims that they should serve cheap wine. Bob argues for cheap wine plus beer. Alice is rather stubborn on saying "no, we'll get drunkards this way"; it's a poor argument but it's still about the drinks.

Then Charlie pops up out of nowhere. Charlie is not part of the party organisation, but he's still planning to attend the party, and he's a biiiig fan of beer. He picks a megaphone and says "Hey! Alice is calling every beer drinker a drunkard! As a beer drinker, I feel deeply offended by that. If I was Bob I'd simply buy lotsa beer and ignore Alice."

Then you get a bunch of people, who'll never attend the party, eating popcorn while they watch the "Alice vs. Bob+Charlie" fight. Except that there's no fight; Alice and Bob are arguing about something, and Charlie is creating drama. And a few popcorn eaters are bound to exert pressure towards Alice to give beer an OK sign, without even bothering to hear her side of the matter.

That is brigading: regardless of his "intentions" Charlie is bringing random people into the discussion to exert pressure towards one side of the dispute. Including muppets that think that anyone trying to get what Alice says must be "illiterate beer haters".

Now replace Alice, Bob, Charlie with Hellwig, Rust4Linux devs, Martin. Replace cheap wine with C and beer with Rust. It's the same deal.