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In regard to Hyprland and Fascism (drewdevault.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] theblips@lemm.ee 66 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The main reason why I use open source is precisely because I don't need or want to worry about this crap. The software is as much property of humanity as it is of the creator, it is basically just knowledge

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely this. Too many people think that because you use some open source software from some fascist dev that "obviously you're fascist, too".

Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Hating on Hyprland users that know what's going on but still really like the software fits this definition. Plus, isn't the biggest kick in the face having the exact people you hate use and enjoy your software?

This is exactly why I switched from PolyMC to Prism Launcher. The PolyMC dev was a fascist prick and an anti-gay/trans activist. His fear was that PolyMC was "going to get taken over by the gays due to the name having Poly in it (as in polysexual)", so he started banning all the devs who disagreed with him or even made a joke about it.

Those devs forked the project and, to rub salt in the wound, made the icon rainbow. But guess what? Its the same software. They forked it because they still liked it and wanted to use it. The software itself had absolutely nothing to do with the dev.

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 15 points 12 hours ago

This! If it is Free Software, it respects everyone's freedom. If I don't like the developer, I will not buy them a coffee. If I don't like the software practices of the developer, a fork is in order (e.g. Oracle with OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)