I don’t buy this at all. The door-in-the-face strategy doesn’t really work if it leaves the customer feeling like they’d rather get rid of the door and start over with a new door technology.
You can squeeze your customers in a way that doesn’t make you look insane and Unity chose to not do that.
b00merang have almost every single mainstream operating system as a downloable GTK/Cinnamon/MATE/Gnome theme.
In fairness to them, they’ve massively outgrown the subreddit format and are only there because of legacy reasons and inertia.
It’s so uniquely and heavily moderated, it’s one of the few communities where it would make more sense to spin off into it’s own site where everything is custom made for them as opposed to continuing to jam reddit’s square mod tools into their circular requirements.
I like Lemmy for the few weeks I’ve been here, but the nascent moderation tools are even less appropriate for that particular sub than even reddit post-July 1st nerf.
It’s also a very culty behaviour to hate apostates even more than nonbelievers.
If the extremist freaks are going to target anyone with violence, it’s going to be the perceived “traitors” who “stabbed them in the back”.