FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry
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Like y’all keep posting about it, praising it, giving it free advertisement, and what not.

But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.

I’ve met people who were harassed, I browsed through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.

So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don’t know and would act otherwise?

It gets tiring to see the project be given “fame” when I know the roots of the plants are founded in toxicity & abuse.

  • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    It’s more abstract than that, because this started with “recommending hyperland”, not with “I support the creator of hyprland”.

    I assure you most users don’t know (or care) about the creator of the software they use.

    I don’t know about you, but me, myself, don’t really know the creators of every piece of libre/open source software I use.

    I’ve even contributed to software some changes I wated, without even knowing or caring who their creators were.

    So, with that in mind, it’s not hard to imagine how this could raise a few eyebrows and people who do not agree with the approach.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I try to know where my software (and hardware and everything else) comes from for this exact reason, but I understand a lot of people don’t

      • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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        4 days ago

        Can you tell me the political affiliation of the creator of grep? I use that tool a lot.

        I think it’s impossible to know for sure what the political thinking of the people involved in everything that happens to have contributed to something in your life is. Some people are not even easy to discern… some people are interpreted out of context, some people are just caught in drama.

        I’d rather take advantage of their work, be thankful for it but without any sort of para-social intent, just thankful for the mathematical algorthms.