I've been using GNOME for a bit over a decade, since 3.12, pretty much nonstop

at one point I was quite heavily involved in the Spanish community, was decently educated in GTK+3 and GTK4/libadwaita, and was 👌 this close to contributing (my main blocker, really, being undiagnosed ADHD)

I thought for a really long time that it was one of the safest communities around, and that their approach to software design and providing a collective voice for the free software movement, while not flawless, was very much worthy of admiration

....and now...

.....and yes, I've also been an user of GNOME 2, since that's what shipped in Ubuntu up until 11.10

really a bigger part of my life than I thought

@xerz did something happen?

@tromino just the whole drama from that one fedi thread concluding in "we gave the trans girls a 10 day school ban".... which, yeah