In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.

I found some horrifying comments from this user.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target. …”

Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml

Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706

https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917

  • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    1 year ago

    Yeah the code might be fine. But if I want to support the development of Lemmy, say with a donation, am I financially supporting a piece of shit?

    I’m not saying every contributor has to be thoroughly vetted, or that I have to agree politically with every contributor. It just feels icky, and I get the concern users have.

    • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I donate to Lemmy.world but that doesn’t go to this Lemmy dev in question, only Ruud and his team. You can donate to specific instance admins who aren’t batshit crazy hateful scumbags and support the growth of healthy instances.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Interesting point. Well, if it’s up to me I would even share the donations with this piece of shit. Because what do you mean by “supporting him”? Letting him earn some money by doing work? What’s the alternative? Letting him starve to death? Personally I’m against death penalty so I do believe that even the worst piece of shit has the right to work and earn living. And frankly, writing code seams to be perfect way for such a person to do it: they are not around other people so no one is in danger and they are not spreading his sick opinions. And people like this earning their living are better than society maintaining them out of our taxes.

      It absolutely does not make anything ‘icky’, it’s a silly way to look at it, childish really. If a convicted murder bags your groceries is your food icky? If a child rapist cleans your street is the street icky?

      And here we’re not talking about murder or rape, just some online posts. Opinions don’t taint code. I know people like to cancel everyone now but this is really getting absurd. The only “concern” users have is a concern that this week they didn’t get outraged enough and didn’t cancel enough people.

      • kglitch@kglitch.social
        32·
        1 year ago

        Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.

        • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
          43·
          1 year ago

          Code is completely separate from the community. Community is formed by people and code is just bunch of instructions. What if a fascist forks your projects and adds features to it? It your code fascists now? Does your community support fascists? Of course not. And if a fascist submits a patch to your project and you accept it it does not mean you’re collaborating with fascists now and your projects is tainted. That’s just absurd. “You’re a bad person so I will not merge this bugfix, I will write the exact same fix by myself so that my code stays pure”.

      • bilboswaggingsEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        OMFG He isn’t getting the death penalty just because we don’t donate to him

        The whole point is to disincentivise people to act like this, it doesn’t ruin the product but to a certain extent you are supporting his views if you support him financially

        Maybe because they are not around other people is the reason why they act like this, you are more likely to see others as people if you are part of the society instead of being withdrawn and hiding behind a username

        I would much rather have this guy at McDonalds or an Amazon warehouse putting stuff in boxes than part of social media dev team

        Because yes even though this is open source people make decisions and can affect how information is received

        There is a reason why users stay away from for example Truth social and Rumble, we don’t want to associate with that stuff… also why companies fire employees who say and do bad stuff on the internet

        • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The whole point is to disincentivise people to act like this, it doesn’t ruin the product but to a certain extent you are supporting his views if you support him financially

          This is wrong on so many levels. Punishing someone like this will not make him change his mind. It will just make them angrier and more entrenched in his views. As long as you’re not paying them to post their ideas online you’re not supporting their views. They can just as well interact with people online as part of dev community as in McDonalds.

          This is such a non-issue the line here is super hard to even cross. You would have to prove that the code he added was for example downvoting pro-Israel content or banning users from Israel or something. Other than that complaining about who wrote what code is just posturing.