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@mcc @listrophy There's an explainer for this because it got weird. Let me see if I can find it.

https://dev.to/cseeman/what-just-happened-to-rubygems-31n9

It's the kind of convoluted tale of woe I seem to only see in the Ruby community (god bless 'em).

• Ruby Central let DHH speak in 2025 RailsConf
• Sidekiq, in response, pulled $250k a year funding
• Shopify saw an opportunity and executed a backfill-the-funding based takeover of RubyGems (the gem-hosting service). This was a carrot-or-stick takeover: they threatened to pull their funding too unless Ruby Central let them increase their ownership stake in the service.

All of this corporate nonsense has people (understandably) backing towards the exits on trusting RubyGems as an independent service that will continue to serve the package needs of the users of Ruby. DHH's relevance to it is that the polarizing nature of his presence in the larger community arranged the circumstances that allowed for the corporate hog-wrasslin' match.

It's all very cyberpunk TBH.

@leymoo I sadly do not have this information, but this story makes me smile because I have a pair of acquaintances (one Irish, one American) who met online in a Christian chat-with-avatars room back in the early aughts (one of the early experiments in that kind of thing; the avatars were like Final Fantasy icons and the world was a tiled grid). They eventually wed.

... they were two atheists who had logged in to gawk at the existence of the thing.