This is what Jade Lovelace, a team member of Lix, wrote:
> there's a lot of work still to do on getting fascists out of the community and everyone is quite exhausted from the fight to get this passed. however. the fascists will get kicked out.
The recent upheavals have revealed that Nix either is not as welcoming as it bills itself to be, or has become less welcoming over time as the makeup of moderation/leadership has changed.
The thing that bothered me the most was the bad faith behavior from the moderation team, where any kind of disagreement is treated as abusive behavior and grounds for banning, even if the issue at hand boils down to:
1. We agree about X
2. We disagree about how to achieve X
On the one hand, I hesitate to recommend wasting time going down the rabbit hole. On the other hand, it’s a pretty interesting rabbit hole and one where the supposed “good guys” are behaving like tyrants, and then calling people who disagree with them fascists.
If nothing else it’s an interesting case study of community dynamics, and given the cultural factors that are driving these dynamics, seems likely to happen across other projects in the future.
What even does the word "fascist" mean anymore? I don't doubt there are real legitimate Nazis floating around, but like... I don't think being a military contractor is a sufficient bar to be called a fascist, not even close.
Is this really the type of person you want leading your community?
Here is Hexa, a lead moderator, saying that the NixOS community is effectively "a Nazi bar": https://chaos.social/@hexa/112661968657636449
This is what Jade Lovelace, a team member of Lix, wrote:
> there's a lot of work still to do on getting fascists out of the community and everyone is quite exhausted from the fight to get this passed. however. the fascists will get kicked out.
https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy/112248186696362113