The Rails subreddit is an embarrassment to the Ruby community

The Rails subreddit is such an embarrassment to the Ruby community. I get anti-Ruby sentiments from people there more than anywhere else. People there are very hateful of any Ruby innovations that are outside the box, like using Ruby in the Frontend of Rails apps. It is shameful the group does not make people with highly innovative ideas feel safe. Everyone there must comply with the few things the top players in the Rails community say or else they are downvoted to kingdom come while receiving many mean hateful comments without being given a chance to explore new divergent ideas safely, meaning the group is unsupportive of innovation and diversity, as they discriminate against people who have diverse ideas by being very nasty towards them. Ironically, such people act like how many devs acted towards Rails in the mid-2000s when Rails was still very new and young. This goes against the Ruby motto MINASWAN (Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice). I personally prefer the acronym WAN (We Are Nice) or WANNJBMIN (We Are Nice Not Just Because Matz Is Nice), but either way, the Rails subreddit fails all niceness acronyms. When I pointed that out to someone on the Rails subreddit, their response was literally "lol", meaning lots of laughter as in they don't care, thus confirming my point 100%.

 
With the negative things happening at the Rails subreddit, it is no wonder the Rails community is questioned daily on whether Rails is dead. The community is not healthy at all in 2024 and is not what it used to be 10 years ago when everyone was open-minded about any brand-new out-of-the-box ideas that are not necessarily coming from the creators of Rails themselves. I joined the Rails community in 2007 initially because of how open-minded, creative, and intelligent it was, but today it is extremely closed-minded outside of what the Rails top players do. The community has become elitist, meaning only people who are part of the elite contributors to Rails or who are compliant with the elitists' thoughts and ideas are included in respectful treatment by others, but everyone else who is not part of the elite core or the people who worship them and their ideas are excluded from any respectful treatment or are ignored without providing any community support. Again, this goes counter to MINISWAN. 

When a respectable Software Engineer disagrees with someone else's idea, they highlight their reservations rationally in a civil manner without downvoting a post until they have done their homework first and tried whatever open-source project is mentioned to be supportive of open-source and to ensure their opinion is an informed opinion. They would never knock something till they have tried it. Downvotes/upvotes that come from uninformed opinions have zero weight. Uninformed opinions don't say anything about the subject at hand, but they say a lot about the false prejudice of downvoters/upvoters and how incompetent and unintelligent they are for not doing their homework or having the curiosity of true Software Engineers to try the new open-source projects.

If you want a subreddit that is NOT flooded by Ruby haters who are unsupportive of new Ruby open-source project innovations and NOT flooded by people who are negative/mean/nasty/discriminatory towards anyone who has ideas that are outside the mold, check out my new Rubyists subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Rubyists/

It is a very new subreddit that aims to be an online group for hardcore Rubyists, meaning people who are experienced in Ruby and who fully understand the awesomeness and potential of Ruby while being open-minded about new Ruby innovations. It doesn't have many people in it right now, but I'd take the few that are in it over the many hateful people who are in the Rails subreddit. I would be patient with growing this group very gradually. It is worth it in the long-term to have a place for hardcore Rubyists to converse without feeling unsafe in sharing out of the ordinary open-source Ruby ideas.

Still, it is not enough to join the group. Please share as many posts there as possible too to help grow it. Please break the ice by sharing a post immediately if possible.

Also, please repost this tweet and repost the Rubyists subreddit link on all your social media accounts if possible.