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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots (blogs.gnome.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Mihies@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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This is a truly WTF moment about messed up responses to X11 session removal in Gnome.

2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with the following, and I am not exaggerating one bit:

Fascists and Nazis
Wild Conspiracy Theories that make Qanon jealous
“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session
A culture war where Wayland is Gay, and X11 is the glorious past they stole from you

In my wildest dreams I could have never made this shit up. You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 39 points 6 days ago

There is no place for Fascists within the Open Source and Free Software communities or the society at large. You will never fester your poisonous roots here

So who took the blog post down at Gnome?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 31 points 6 days ago

Article was taken down. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250624214542/https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/23/the-fascist-maggots/

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 21 points 6 days ago

Looks like I have been an early adopter of Gay™️

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago

On the one hand, the guy who wrote this blog post is kinda unhinged.

On the other hand, I'm kinda living for it and agree with his views.

So really it all evens out in the end.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The link is broken, unfortunately

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Alternative URLs have been posted in thread.

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