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Is it just me or is mastodon.art the source of almost all of the drama on the fediverse?
@donuts I recently had a short conversation with someone from mastodon.art. They denied the GIMP devs an account on their server, because GIMP is a slur word. And they made a public announcement of this fact. Looks like the moderation/administration people are assholes, if they act and communicate like that. This community is new to me and all I know is about this GIMP announcement and this new drama.
For those who don't know: GNU Image Manipulation Program.
@shnizmuffin For those who know less/more, original name was General Image Manipulation Program, before it got renamed.
Ah, that goes farther back than I thought. I didn't need GIMP until CS3 reached EOL.
For an extra bit of trivia, GTK, the GUI library that later became the basis of GNOME and lots of programs, comes from GIMP ToolKit.
It's been switched around in later times, with GIMP using GTK now instead of the other way around, but GIMP is still essentially the forefather of all GNOME and related UIs.
STRAIGHT TO JAIL!!!