I miss when FLOSS was basically apolitical and EVERYONE working towards something that can be used by ANYONE was absent all the purity tests, propaganda and BS.

It wasn't apolitical, there were a lot of discussions about the nature and politics of OSS but it was never this radical.

I remember a few fights in a few of my local LUG and communities that were very heated, but never death threats and almost always was online trash talking and in real life going back to being normal people with some snarky comments here and there.