Who is this person? I am unfamiliar with this story.
He later committed suicide I believe.
They even attempted to change their internet alias multiple times to avoid their incessant stalking until settling to their final one (Near).
Edit: A child post has provided reasonable evidence that I'm mistaken about Near preferring singular-they pronouns; "he" is likely fine. Apologies for the mistake. I will leave the original body of the post as I still think it's worthwhile to remember why Near was targeted for such harassment.
I also believe marcan (another friend of Near's) commented something similar, but I can't seem to find it (I think it was on Twitter).
Near's spouse referred to Near via "he/him/his" in all of the police/consulate correspondence in the FOIA, so it seemed alright to me.
That's just the tip of it though.
TLDR; The retroarch devs had an IRC channel where they would shit on byuu/near all the time, for no reason other than a group of them did it constantly. It was part of their "community".
I'm always wary with these one-sided "X was oppressed by meanies for no valid reason!" and using suicide as a way to enshrine it.