Just putting this here cause I found it a good overview of a pretty confusing situation I had no prior knowledge about

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Cast:

    • Vaxry: Hypr, Hyprland creator, contributes to wlroots and Freedesktop
    • Lyude: member of X.org board, Freedesktop.org, Red Hat employee
    • Drew DeVault: Sway and Hare creator, self-proclaimed Zig hater
    • FDO: FreeDesktop Organisation(?)

    Warning: Not lore accurate

    TL:DR;

    Vaxry’s Discord server for Hyprland was filled with edgy kids, calling each other LGBTQ+ related slurs - maybe they were from the community themselves, maybe it was a boy’s locker room. It was toxic.

    From what Vaxry said, a trans user was misgendering his mod staff, so their pronoun was changed to “who/cares”. That was two years ago. Drew DeVault wrote a blog about it, Vaxry was pissed, removed happened. They discuss but could not come to an agreement; however there were a few changes. Vaxry apologized later about the incident, but he was not in agreement with political correctness.

    Vaxry’s policy according to him is that he does not discriminate PR on the basis of people. He also created a CoC (mentioned earlier), but not many were happy about it being vague. But then, he also made a blog against inclusivity in FOSS, and calls them SJWs as a pejorative.

    Vaxry lost his marbles when he got a mail from Lyude. Lyude used a Redhat mail, which was seen as unprofessional, and tried enforcing FDO’s CoC on Hyprland and other related project.

    He sent back a passive-aggressive mail, which said “removed off” in short. He also share Lyude’s toots in the blog about how Lyude supports bullying people for missing T in LGB, as a justification that Lyude tried bringing their past unnecessarily. Lyude sent another mail. Vaxry said that they don’t care, basically another formal “removed off”. Finally, FDO yeeted Vaxry.

    That’s it. Maybe I’ve missed a few details here and there. I did not read other’s blog, but Vaxrys’. And it isn’t looking good. In a way, this is also the abuse of power by Lyude, but looking at Vaxrys’ indifference, yeah, I wouldn’t have a positive attitude about that.

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    Edit: After watching Nico’s video, I’m convinced that Vaxry is a living, breathing turd. He crossed every limit. Good on him for getting banned.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Vaxry lost his marbles when he got a mail from Lyude. Lyude used a Redhat mail, which was seen as unprofessional, and tried enforcing FDO’s CoC on Hyprland and other related project.

      Given that the context was Hyprland possibly becoming a formal part of FDO, expecting Hyprland’s developers to abide by the FDO CoC in that event was a completely reasonable expectation.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      So basically a cancerous organization meets a toxic community?

      Awesome entertainment for hours!

      *grabs popcorn*