Do you ever get scared of being eating up by a community for reporting problems.

mtchristo@lemm.ee to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 41 points –

Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

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Protonmail accounts are free. Just make one and use it for bug report signups.

And if you have a paid Proton account, you get SimpleLogin included, so you can use a unique email address for every service. I love that - I now generally have a unique username, password, and email address for every service.