KDE bans user calling out racism, antisemitism and misogyny but not the perpetrator. : techtakes

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Welp, both blocked now. For some reason both. And the entire work item removed... Update the post maybe?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks like they switched the entire proposal thread to private, it can no longer be viewed.

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago

damn kde is really attempting a lose-all-respect% speedrun WR huh

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

Such a fucking bummer too...I really like kde

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

It's surreal seeing the internet pivot 180-degrees to full blown harboring bigotry.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I noticed those comments were removed today. Cheers for finding the archive of them.

The turn KDE has taken is absolutely astonishing. I regret the donations I've made to them :(

Edit: they did ultimately ban the racist, though it's not a great look that the person exposing the racist was also banned.

[-] doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol 10 points 1 week ago

@Kiriko oh fucking boy

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Another one...

[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Welp, that is another nail in the coffin for KDE. I don't want to use a DE that protects fascist creeps; even more motivation to change to a WM and continue my learning journey so I can build my own WM that I can guarantee will be free from LLM assisted code.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

David sure called this one. O_o

[-] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not seeing where svin is linked to bee_fumo. Can someone point out where they admited those are their tweets?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

bee_fumo and Svin share the same avatar, and Svin's response saying they know who in that thread like their X posts, and they later edited that post to this (which is still viewable/hasn't been removed):

"You must be a fan of mine trolling from X" is admission that they are the same account.

And further down responded with this:

[-] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Okay that makes sense. Did the kde forum mods give a reason for the ban?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Not that I'm aware of.

[-] Kiriko@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Apart from the proof @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net posted, bee_fumo was also live-posting the whole thread on twitter https://x.com/bee_fumo/status/2102032995695645121

[+] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world -6 points 1 week ago

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[-] werty@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Let me guess.. there's no such thing as a semite?

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

A semite is 50% of a te

[-] werty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I need an itty bitty antisemite committee

[+] argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org -6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who exactly is this “svin” person? And how do we know that the X account in question belongs to svin?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

also, how do we know that they meant to be bigoted when they typed those words in that order? Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? That’s what you sound like

[-] argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org -1 points 1 week ago

I don't think there's any question that the words are bigoted.

But I see very little evidence that they belong to svin, nor that svin has any significant influence in the KDE project.

Clarification would be appreciated.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

The guy admits that those tweets are his in the thread. The influence is not substantial to the problem here

[-] argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

I see.

Well, I suppose this is all moot anyway. With KDE now planning to start spying on users to train AI models https://windowsforum.com/news/kde-plasma-kadai-is-a-proposal-not-an-ai-desktop.444963/ it seems we all need to abandon ship regardless.

What will we use next?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here are lists of projects that actively reject AI:

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#desktop-environments

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#window-managers

https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

[-] Kiriko@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

He was live-posting the whole thread https://x.com/bee_fumo/status/2102032995695645121

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