Why Did NixOS Mods Ban Srid?
srid.ca
On Nov 14th, 2023 - the NixOS moderation team permanently banned me from Discourse, Github and Matrix for ideological reasons thus violating the very Code of Conduct they recently proposed. A week earlier, on Nov 7th, 2023, they had issued their threat demanding that I (1) take down the link to my unwoke page on my own Discourse profile, (2) remove a picture of a piece of steak that I had cooked, and (3) cease participating in the so-called ‘toxic threads’ (this latter request I readily agreed to). I sensibly counter-proposed that I’d take the link down only if they institute a public policy of there being no politically-oriented links in Discourse profile pages, which they refused leading to the only possible conclusion that the ban was motivated by wrongthink.

Even the website contents show that it is no wonder he got banned, he also went to his twitter and made multiple threads on NixOS, how it has gone woke and etc.

https://x.com/sridca/status/1767991567409610976 https://x.com/sridca/status/1766944228129575327

I don't even know what to say about it, from one point of view, people like this in the community aren't very good, on the other point banning contributors can be damaging to the whole software.

The issue seems much deeper than I even read, so if anybody is in the Nix community, I would be glad to hear your words on the thing as a whole, a big something something had happened in it. I personally am not that deep, but I will maybe edit this post after to include more info on the whole situation.

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The section where he's taking a principled stand about using a picture of steak as his profile banner was particularly funny.

    Even if this guy's opinions were good, his behavior is totally annoying and toxic, and so detrimental to the project. It's inevitable that any big project like this is going to have some chuds, and they can provide good works for it. But don't just give this guy a runway to fuck up all the social organizational aspects of a project, especially when he would never give you the opportunity to do the same.