I made a post asking specifically for DC fans their opinions. The people who responded aren’t actual fans—they’re just people who think they are fans but have never picked up a comic in their life. My question is: why do non-fans try so hard to engage with real fans?? You aren’t a real fan of DC, Marvel, or anything superhero-related, so you don’t deserve to be in the fandom space.


The Linux community, and niches inside that community, are quite infamous for gatekeeping. Because you don’t use a piece of software that other people use (for usually ideological reasons), you get attacked for it.
I would know, because I was attacked for proudly embracing the use of XLibre. I didn’t care one bit.
Is shunning people for not using Linux also gatekeeping? I feel like I get that a lot.