whocriedwolf
ok this is crazy
It's not really a secret that the GNOME foundation is one of the biggest crybabies in the free software movement right now, along with Freedesktop and a lot of other connected orgs. But we're now at the stage where GNOME is (allegedly) fabricating their own cyberattacks to play the victim more often now that they are running out of people to complain about. That, or an anonymous person on the outside really just wants to watch the world burn, definitely not uncommon on Matrix/XMPP networks in my experience.
This is similar to what Codeberg did not long ago when they sent an email out to all members screaming "NIGGER", then immediately blamed far-right extremists less than 24 hours later despite having zero actual evidence or explanation to back up this blame; the email spam was (allegedly) coordinated by Codeberg staff as the public response from them was a bit on the nose given the convenient timing.
At the moment, these are aimed at the Lunduke Journal, an online news publication run by Bryan Lunduke, who's been kicked out of prettymuch everywhere in the open source sphere for his reporting on forced DEI and political gatekeeping within Linux or FOSS-centric communities and inside tech corporations.
His most recent response:
To my knowledge there is not much honest reporting on this so forgive me for citing a potentially biased primary source. I do think the tweet is at least worth looking at.
During the earliest attacks, a political activist organization called the Solidaires Informatique published this infographic: https://archive.is/P4yAm
How they telepathically figured out the intent of all of this, having anything to do with "fascists" or being "minoritized" is not really clear though, as I mentioned before trolling and spam is common on decentralized IM networks. It could be ammunition used to put pressure on maintainers to underhandedly enact their changes in Matrix.
The infographic specifically does call for more robust moderation tools though (which I can actually agree with -- operating a Matrix room is pretty dog shit due to all sorts of issues with the way the protocol handles attachments).
This is similar to what Codeberg did not long ago when they sent an email out to all members screaming "NIGGER", then immediately blamed far-right extremists less than 24 hours later despite having zero actual evidence or explanation to back up this blame; the email spam was (allegedly) coordinated by Codeberg staff as the public response from them was a bit on the nose given the convenient timing.
At the moment, these are aimed at the Lunduke Journal, an online news publication run by Bryan Lunduke, who's been kicked out of prettymuch everywhere in the open source sphere for his reporting on forced DEI and political gatekeeping within Linux or FOSS-centric communities and inside tech corporations.
His most recent response:
To my knowledge there is not much honest reporting on this so forgive me for citing a potentially biased primary source. I do think the tweet is at least worth looking at.
During the earliest attacks, a political activist organization called the Solidaires Informatique published this infographic: https://archive.is/P4yAm
How they telepathically figured out the intent of all of this, having anything to do with "fascists" or being "minoritized" is not really clear though, as I mentioned before trolling and spam is common on decentralized IM networks. It could be ammunition used to put pressure on maintainers to underhandedly enact their changes in Matrix.
The infographic specifically does call for more robust moderation tools though (which I can actually agree with -- operating a Matrix room is pretty dog shit due to all sorts of issues with the way the protocol handles attachments).
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