• shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    You can call the projects all sorts of things, directionless, messy, bad, underwhelming

    But fascist? Come on, not everything that you dislike = fascism

    Fascism is not good, but less use the term accurately

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      16 hours ago

      For the past half hour I tried to read into what’s happened, and who the supposed fascists are, and these are the facts I managed to uncover. I hope it will serve anyone who reads this well:

      1. Communities are gonna drama.
      2. Moderating is hard and (paraphrasing Douglas Adams) anyone who wants to do it, shouldn’t be allowed to.
      3. I really don’t care enough to waste more time on this.
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      15 hours ago

      Just makes it sound like whoever wrote this is projecting, considering what the NixOS project is actually facing.

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      15 hours ago

      use the term accurately

      We have a lack of words used in the English language that specifies graduations and grades of arseholes.

      Just like some languages have one word for snow, and others have dozens