Yeah, whether Robert Greene actually exists or not, I wouldn't watch any of him.
See this little icon?:
That alone prevents me from watching a video. (Mind you, that badge isn't a 100% guarantee. It only shows up if the uploader specifically selections the option that says it was generated using AI, which people often skip even for AI-generated content. But at least it helps.)
But even if he appeared in any videos that weren't made with AI, I think you're right to feel icky about "Robert Greene".
I mean, Jordan Peterson exists, but he's a Nazi douchebag who nobody should pay any attention to. If Robert Green exists, then I think he's in the same category.
Yeah, I... might still have a little bit of hope for Ladybird, but I'm really concerned about it. It seems like a) it may be pretty AI sloppy and b) they seem to be pretty in-bed with FUTO. Both of those seem like huge red flags to me.
I dunno. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I'm worried.
I think the author should have opened with the examples and gone on from there.
But yeah. Conventions and super-scummy sexual harassment behavior (in men in positions of authority toward women) without consequences unfortunately tend to go together a lot. In FOSS or otherwise. (Consider Elevatorgate.)
And I don't disbelieve the author when they say:
I suspect [Adria Richards] knew that if she reported it secretly the Python leadership it would be hushed up.
And if it doesn't, they'll just implement it anyway even if Missourians vote against it. (Wouldn't be the first time they've done that with one bill or another.)
I mean, I've been running exclusively rolling release Linux distros (Gentoo and Arch) as my daily driver for the last 20 years and I don't think I've ever had the thought that reinstalling from scratch would be simpler than just... fixing the issue. I've never backed up my OS files either. Only data files; the sort of files that aren't put there by the install process or package manager. I've never used BTRFS or anything with snapshotting abilities either.
I have booted into a live system, chrooted, and fixed something. (Because my kernel or bootloader or something was borked.) But it's been quite a long time since I've had to do that, and I've never reinstalled from scratch because I couldn't fix something.
(The only times I've used non-rolling releases were pretty limited cases. A server here running Debian here, a Raspberry Pi running Raspian (though even Raspberry Pi's, I've mostly used Arch Linux ARM) there. Also my work machine, though I've even installed rolling release distros on my work machine on a forgiveness-rather-than-permission basis at times. Lol.)
Fair. Definitely don't blame you. I only participate because it's fun to poke the bear and have fun at Madthumbs' expense sometimes. Like the Buttcoin community (or rather "communities" - there are at least 4 on Lemmy) does with cryptobros. And Artificial Ignorance does with generative AI.
Ah! Ok. That makes sense and seems plausible. The Linuxsucks Sucks community is a little over a month old and hasn't had all that many folks participate.
Ah. I'm with you. Well that's super annoying. Maybe one more reason why lemmy.world should defederate from lemmy.ml. :\
Edit: Oh, I wrote this before I saw your edit. I thought you were saying that if a lemmy.ml user responds to a thread on lemmy.world, then the whole thread won't work on Lemvotes. Which... I don't specifically know isn't the case at this point. But yeah.
Your name is "FauxPseudo", but you're the realest.