Dealing With "Tech Cults"
We previously explained that "Tech" with a capital T and tech with a small T are not the same. Like "Science" and "Religion", there's a connotation when the first letter is capitalised. Sort of like "the Bible".
Cults exist in the music industry, in sports (cliques), even at the EPO.
The makeup of a cult is the subject of ample literature and there is no clear threshold that defines when something becomes a cult (many cults are "mainstream" enough not to be called cults anymore; think of "Swifties").
In Free software, in my experience, sub-cultures and cults exist and thrive in attention, often earned through sabotage and provocation, not creation. Some can be extremely destructive; destruction is their implicit (or partly hidden) goal.
Hours ago someone told me that "rust == politics" and I replied by saying that Techrights "called them out on it first [...] around 2019 [...] we got WBers from the project..."
Yes, even back then Rust was becoming very innately and inwardly hostile, a hallmark of tribalism against some of its very own contributors!
If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away. Don't participate in it.
Even if you think that cult is very much like you and you actually like it, it's only a matter of time before it turns against you. It does not tolerate any dissent, it always hunts for anyone who does not agree with the group (on anything whatever). Put in colloquial terms, it'll eat its own. Then it'll implode. Another cult (or cults) will inherit its place.
Ironically, many who call things "cults" are themselves cults, such as 4Chan. Let all those cults burn together. They'll eat each other. █