• sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          He is some sort of a sociopath. I remember having the same feelings reading his Blogposts. But after rethinking and checking the facts it came to me how awful his own reaction was.

          If you use an infrastructure as the project did, the host is allowed to define rules. In his reaction everything was framed like she as a woman would just fire against his project because of she likes to have power. The mailing list told a totally different story. After I realised his framing was again hateful and misleading, I stepped away from the project and till now all news about that.

          The development of a dedicated backend is most probably because of technical reasons since wlroots caused some problems, though.

    • tetchey@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      Damn. I only discovered this project a few weeks ago and just started building a config.

      Time to yay -Rcs hyprland.

    • SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      I whole-heartedly agree with this one and I am genuinely not surprised about the behaviour of Vaxry.

      To give some context around this, ThatOneCalculator (aka Kainoa, the person behind Firefish) and I maintained the AUR package for hyprland-git back in 2022. When I initially made the AUR package file, it wasn’t great (and there were a lot of points to improve these packages) but it worked mostly. Of course there were edge cases where building broke, especially this was my first bigger AUR package to maintain. With it being a -git package in the AUR, breakage is to be expected.

      Fast forward about a month, a month and a half. Hyprland rolled out some big changes which caused some build errors. But because my personal life got in the way, Kainoa got sick (IIRC) and I had troubles getting the build scripts working again, so it took a few days to get this resolved.

      Vaxry came complaining to comment section of the AUR package “when are you gonna get of your lazy ass and fix this shit” (or something similar to that meaning, I can’t find the original comment anymore). After that, I promptly disowned the package and let Vaxry handle it himself.

      Because fuck that shit, as package maintainer, I refused to be treated like this. If you think it takes too long, sure, fine, ask if I need help, offer support, anything. But just don’t be an asshole towards people, that offer your software to a wider audience.

    • geoff@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      Well I was going to try Hyprland this weekend, but I think instead I will very much not do that.

      I hope someone forks it from a good commit just before they replaced wlroots. I don’t know the specifics of compositor code at all, but I bet It’s going to cost them quite a bit of velocity to maintain their replacement.

      • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        I’d say, read Hyprland’s responses linked elsewhere in this thread before making any hasty decisions.

        It seems (but I’m not sure, to be clear), that it was a situation that got solved, and people are still hung up on it.

        It’s like that “but you fuck one sheep” joke.

    • Stiltonfondu@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

      Hyprland is incredible and hopefully there won’t be any more trouble like this

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

        Because Vaxry didn’t like the public backlash, not because he had any moral problems with the conduct. In fact, he doesn’t mind genocide:

        • burghler@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          I think he was trying to have a philosophical point here but took the headass approach to it.

          20 years ish old, living in Poland, and perma online does things to a man. Weird though to have a take like that when Polish people in particular were significant victims in Auschwitz

        • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          Aw, man. I think Vaxry’s got entrapped here.

          He is saying that if nothing can sway you from an opinion, then it is a belief, including being 100% opposed to genocide.

          (Please note: I don’t side with genocide!!! But I understand his point. Read on.)

          I think he’s the positions armchair arguing type, not necessarily the evil type.

          I can totally see him say “If a group of people’s solely reason to exist is to exterminate the rest of the human race, if that’s all they think about, if all they do is to accomplish that - induce terror, kill babies, spew propaganda, castrate humans of all races; then it’s safe to say that that group of people should not exist and it should be exterminated.”

          That’s an extremely wild scenario, of course! But I think that’s what this guy is saying. We may find genocide in general heinous, but he won’t say that all genocides are bad because of thought examples like the above one.

          Then the other party takes that personally, and extrapolates that Vaxry is in favor of exterminating all trans people - something he didn’t say or mean.

          My two cents.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            5 months ago

            That discussion didn’t come out of the blue, though. It was in the aftermath of behavior on his Discord where his position was “I didn’t say the things and I can’t moderate”. Also, as a person of Polish descent who follows Polish politics probably a bit closer than the average person, I see a pattern of PiS party ideology / common behavior by PiS supporters of being at the far right and the claiming ignorance when their behavior leads to bad press.

      • burghler@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        I also frequent the discord server often for help with configuring, I have not seen/experienced any of this hatred talked about so much. The worst I’ve seen is bluntness in delivering a solution or just being ignored because I someone didn’t RTFM.

        Hyprland is a wonderful piece of technology and I hope it continues to persist.

        • quick@thelemmy.club
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          All of these people are just reaching lol. I also don’t understand how any of this would do benefit. Most of the people here cheering have not contributed 1℅ of what varxy did.

          That drewvault guy lectures all day instead of maintaining his own projects. Why are we acting as if we are in abundance of open source devs/maintainers.

      • patatahooligan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

        Right, but the original mail from FDO basically said “we know about these examples of bad behavior, we want to notify you that they are definitely unacceptable and we expect to never see something like it again”. And Vaxry had a meltdown over that. Among other things, he doesn’t get why he should be held accountable for behaviors outside FDO. He has also rejected and commented negatively on the idea of any code of conduct at all for his project. Vaxry is making it as clear as possible that he will make zero commitment to oppose toxicity in his community and people took his word for it. The idea that he was punished solely for a couple of comments that happened years ago and are definitely “fixed” is Vaxry’s own misleading interpretation.

        • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          I don’t know, man. I read Vaxry’s response and I think that he has a point. There was an incident, and it was dealt with.

          Then someone from redhat (because they e-mailed him with from RedHat address) told him “hey we saw improvements on you moderating your community. Great! But if you break our CoC again, we’ll ban you!” To which he replied “Uh, we don’t have a CoC, we don’t belong to your organization, what’s is this about?” And the person replied “This is not a RedHat position. And again, we’ll ban you!”

          He explained this in a blogpost and posted the full e-mail conversation.

          He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry’s project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.

          • patatahooligan@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            5 months ago

            I’ve also read Vaxry’s response and it’s complete nonsense. It’s even apparent in your condensed version.

            Uh, we don’t have a CoC

            Exactly. This is more than “an incident” as you put it. It’s a long-lasting pattern of Vaxry refusing to commit to any standards of behavior. He explicitly calls “upholding any value” nothing but an inconvenience. His only reaction to his community ridiculing the concept of a CoC is to say “nice one”.

            What’s funny is that the person who opened the issue said “Instead of attacking the post, could you provide some evidence against it? (e.g. say “Trans rights are human rights”)” and it was completely ignored. See, the CoC is not about the text itself. It’s about taking an open stance against bigotry. Vaxry can cry all day about how this one incident is misrepresented and how moderation has become more strict now, but nowhere in this discussion or the FDO emails or his own blog about the issue have I seen him take an actual moral stance on the issue.

            we don’t belong to your organization

            What does this have to do with anything? FDO, a space that aims to be LGBTQ+ friendly, banned a bigoted person from participating, as they should. It’s such a stupid childish argument to say “but I didn’t out myself as a bigot in a commit message I submitted to you, checkmate!”. No-one cares. You can’t leave your “fuck trans people, lol” sign at the door and walk in, mate. You’re still a toxic asshole and you’re still a threat to the LBGTQ+ people we want to participate in our community.

            He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry’s project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.

            This is just so funny to hear from Vaxry himself. After people have repeatedly tried to explain to him that not enforcing any code of conduct on a toxic community is going to make it an unsafe space for LGBTQ+ people, Vaxry is shocked to find that LGBTQ+ people are afraid of being discriminated against!

            Oh, but no, you see it’s because of the “misrepresentation”! Vaxry’s had made it so clear through his words and actions that trans rights are human rights and that bigotry is unacceptable, so it can’t possibly be on him. Even as he’s posting pictures this conversation where he’s accused of being a transphobe, and a trans person is expecting to get rejected, does he point out how he’s not a transphobe and how he respects all human rights? Nope, he only says that he only cares about the code.

            But that’s just me picking apart his comments in a few specific discussions. What if he has in fact taken a moral stance, but just not in these particular discussions where’s he’s felt attacked and pressured into making a statement?

            He did post this in one of his blog posts:

            With that, I believe that every human’s opinion is valuable and important, and most crucially, equal. There is no point in having some people’s opinions be more important than others. That is the essence of discrimination.

            Hey, that’s not bad. There’s mention of equality here and he seems against discrimination! Now let’s read the rest of this Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS blog post and see what it’s really about! Oh no, the above statement was only to set the stage for accusing SJWs of not understanding that not everyone agrees with them and how they shouldn’t “cancel” us for “saying bad words”. So he does think to talk about equality and discrimination, just not in any of the above discussions. But he’ll do it here to defense people acting like assholes on the internet!

            And then he says this:

            if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server

            that is inclusivity

            So there you have it. Vaxry will literally accept Hilter into his community, just casually interacting with Jewish people (presumably he doesn’t ban them from participating). It’s all fine, just as long as the gassing happens outside his own platform. Gosh, I wonder why people are feeling unwelcome in his community. Surely it is the misrepresentation of his views.

            Here’s an archive link for the above article just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20240511145845/https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

            • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              5 months ago

              I think you’re attributing malice to something else. Bear with me while I point out these two things:

              First, The tomatoes quote is a consequence of something he mentioned later:

              I firmly believe that FOSS is literally for everyone.

              And second, he goes on to write this:

              It’s important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other. For whatever reasons they may, we still should not ostracize them as long as they can interact with the FOSS community in a respectful manner, without arguing about those issues in places not meant for such discussions.

              Here’s what I think: The dude is dogmatically dense. Not a literal nazi or transphobe. His response about moderation is part of that. “Ugh, I just want to code, not to babysit. If no one is spewing hate in my turf, they are welcome.” And even though I don’t agree with his stance, I still think he has a point: extremes are bad. And if the far-right is bad (“you’re either with us or against us; death to you!”), the far-left is bad too (“you’re either with us or against us; cancelled!”)

              I’ve been there. Even after explaining that I was a transgender rights ally and supporter, and asked a question about sports - a question, as in I was trying to get myself informed, this one mod lashed out at me as if I was the devil, simply because my views didn’t perfectly align with hers before getting answers. It really caught me off guard. And she wouldn’t budge. It’s either her view or “pure unadulterated transphobia,” which I found ridiculous. That’s extreme.

              But I’m capable of trying to reach to a middleground, whereas Vaxry stays firm - and that’s fine. Don’t like it? Don’t participate in his community! But don’t demonize him for some imaginary intentions you’re placing on him.

    • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      The bread and butter for anyone wanting a TLDR:

      The FDO team is right that Hyprland’s community reflects poorly on the Linux desktop community as a whole. Vaxry [the Hyprland Dev] has created a foothold for hate, transphobia, homophobia, bullying, and harassment in the Linux desktop community. We are right to take action to correct this problem.

      • Salix@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        And on that note, I condemn in the harshest terms the response from communities like /r/linux on the subject. The vile harassment and hate directed at the FDO officer in question is obscene and completely unjustifiable. I don’t care what window manager or desktop environment you use – this kind of behavior is completely uncalled for. I expect better.

        Oh wow. That community is just hateful

        • patatahooligan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          And now in the r/linux thread about these news people are defending Vaxry, misrepresenting what the ban was about, and hating FDO.

          Indicatively, this blatantly wrong comment chain is upvoted:

          Is this the project where some red Hat dev started dropping legal threats from their corporate account over offline activities by third parties in unrelated communities years past?

          Sort of. You got some details wrong but essentially, yes.

          But this is downvoted and has replies telling them they’re wrong:

          Congratulations to the hyprland project, but I definitely will not be using or contributing to the project as long as it’s an exclusionary and intolerant space.

    • Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      My opinion: let’s separate the software and the people making it. If it’s great tool and FOSS why not use it? You use software, not people.

      EDIT: I know that FOSS heavily relies on community but also that’s the point. I don’t see how toxic comminity can progress further while more open minded and kind fork will be a better choice of the same software base.

      • thejevans@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        Since this change is entirely a result of the bad behavior of the maintainer and would not have happened otherwise, this a perfect example of why we fundamentally cannot separate the work from the people who make it.

        Even if you do not agree with the social backlash this person is getting, that backlash has real effects on the work.

        I, for one, no longer trust that hyprland will remain a well-maintained piece of software given that the maintainer would rather increase their maintenance burden and diverge from using common tools instead of cooperating with the community.

        • Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          Yeah the “organisation” stuff behind… To be honest anything can show negative or positive effects on the end product. I see it in my job, college and even the Unity or CrowdStrike can make such examples.

      • nmtake@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        Please note that many users of FOSS are also developers or contributors. Who wants to report a bug or send a patch if the community is worse?

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        If it’s great tool and FOSS why not use it? You use software, not people.

        I didn’t write about its user base, I wrote about its community – the cesspool that engages among each other. That said, the moment someone opens a bug report, there’s a real chance that person gets harassed.

      • Solar Bear@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        “Let’s remove the social element of our social movement”

        Great so what’s left at that point, the free value FOSS provides to corporations?

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        The thing about Foss is that it’s typically community oriented. You are not only able to contribute and participate, but you’re invited to do so.

        And if you’re an asshole and your community is toxic then who cares if your code is good? There are other projects I’d rather participate in. Cuz you’re not that good.

      • Badabinski@kbin.earth
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        What if you need to file a bug? What if you have a question on the config that’s not easily answered by the docs? If you never, ever find bugs and never, ever have questions, then sure, separate the two. There are genuinely people like that, but they’re not common. If you’re one of them, then I’m genuinely glad for you.

        My opinion is this: You use software. You don’t use people, but you sure as hell rely on them.

        • Ferk@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Which is why you should only care about the personal opinion of those people when it actually relates to that reliability.

          I don’t care whether Linus Torvalds likes disrespecting whichever company or people he might want to give the middle finger to, or throw rants in the mailing list or mastodon to attack any particular individual, so long as he continues doing a good job maintaining the kernel and accepting contributions from those same people when they provide quality code, regardless of whatever feelings he might have about whatever opinions they might hold.

          You rely on the performance of the software, the clarity of the docs, the efficiency of their bug tracking… but the opinions of the people running those things don’t matter so long as they keep being reliable.

        • quick@thelemmy.club
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          Just do them how you would do with any other project. You really acting like it’s some alt right group. It’s just a edgy chronically online 20 yr old dude lol. The community is pretty normal. Only weird things you would see is edgy messages in announcements channel.