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.

  • Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3114·
    2 days ago

    Sadly there are many people in the open source community who don’t care, to them if the software is good then it doesn’t matter who the artist is.

    Specifically with the Linux community I feel like it’s half queer people and half middle aged men and the other half often doesn’t care and likely lean right wing or libertarian anyway.

    That’s my opinion at least. Tons of people still use and recommend Proton even though its founder and owner is toxic and harmful to queer people as well.

    • lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      192·
      2 days ago

      Imo theres a massive diffrence between using a massive companys software that only runs on their servers and generates money for them, and a completly FOSS tiling desktop that the creator almost quit because they get literally nothing from people using the code. The entire point of open source is to make software that benefits everyone nomatter the original creators views

      • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
        82·
        2 days ago

        I get the aspect that usage of open source projects don’t necessarily benefit their dev (for better or worse), but at the end of the day promotion of a software is still promotion of its dev (even if to a much smaller degree) and consequently their reach. I can understand why people like the op would have issues with it being actively recommended.

    • pathief@lemmy.world
      175·
      2 days ago

      Have you tried to use only products made by nice guys or nice companies? It’s impossible.

      It’s also a bit ironic to post this opinion on Lemmy, whose creators are also bigots.