Consider your rhetoric, and the reactions caused:

I don't want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that

I don't think you intend it, but this otherizes a group of us workers. It's not just "wtf is up with programming.dev," but instead this now plants the idea that maybe there's something wrong with this group, specifically. Not just that there's an issue with some random Lemmy instance.

Look at the reactions, the culture this kind of post creates:

Engineers are vastly over-represented among extremists

Also on the business side of things it's filled with the worst people imaginable and if you survive your first year or 2 you select for the people that are willing to put up with the worst people imaginable.

It is common for STEM folks to have a reductive world view

As a programmer, I'm here to say that my people are not alright.

The ugly truth is that IT has always been an industry that caters towards the worst of the bourgeoisie

And so on, and so forth. At the core, otherization and division. And I don't think a majority of the assertions in this thread are even remotely true.

To be clear, I don't think you or anyone in this thread means ill by it. But this thread, and threads like it, frustrate me.