• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    28 days ago

    No, it wasn’t. You might say that the issue was sidestepped, because it says “it”, rather than “they”, now.

    I guess it was an overreaction by mastodon, though. Even if I understand the initial criticism.

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      28 days ago

      ‘It’ is gender neutral so it was resolved

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          28 days ago

          A PR fixing all those issues was merged.

          They used “they” when referring to a person, and “it” when referring to a process (the author used “he” when referring to a process calling another process, when he should have used “it.”)

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              28 days ago

              Does it matter? It’s the same outcome either way

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                28 days ago

                It doesn’t really address the core of the issue. Also: you said something wrong and ri corrected you, while acknowledging that the text was gender neutral now. What’s the big deal?