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The most obvious cause was forcing BDFL and creator Eelco to step down

The moderation team posted an open letter demanding he step down, among other reasons this accused him of jeopardizing the safety of people from "marginalized backgrounds" and allowing "fascists" in the community

I have tried very hard to find any examples of what this is a actually referring to and genuinely have no idea

https://github.com/save-nix-together/open-letter/blob/main/c...

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If you're unemployed enough, I have a long winded video on the 2022-2024 drama. From the perspective of the guy who was labeled a nazi and banned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA

This was such a sad period, and I'm still sad at how you were treated. I hope in cooler times that the lifetime ban is lifted.

That would require assumption of good faith from all participants.

This resignation post reinforces the view that there is little good faith assumptions amongst the broader Nix ecosystem.

Whatever the legitimate issues were, the letter undermines its own credibility with its overbearing and self-righteous tone. Aside from Determinate Systems and the Anduril bit, the complaints lack specificity. The Blueskyisms thrown around here are just as indicative of "cultural problems" as anything else, assuming these views are representative of the community.

Yeah it's incredibly vague and one of the only specific examples it gives is this thread, which already was locked and delisted and the OP banned?

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/objection-to-minority-represen...

It's absurd to view this as a reason Eelco himself should be forced out of a project he himself created.

>The moderation team posted an open letter demanding he step down, among other reasons this accused him of jeopardizing the safety of people from "marginalized backgrounds" and allowing "fascists" in the community

>For context, Anduril is a military contractor who produce drones using machine learning on Nvidia GPUs on NixOS as well as ML based systems for detecting migrants on the US-Mexico border, cheapening state violence against migrants.

Given that ICE are currently breaking into peoples apartments and rounding people up into concentration camps, would it not be logical to conclude that the company providing software for the agency are fascists and by extension Eelco relitigating the sponsorship policy can be taken as allowing fascists in the community?

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