As of around 7 hours ago, there’s a closed issue on the repo’s tracker from someone upset they were on the secret list, and the maintainer closed the issue stating that they’d make an official statement once everyone cooled off. Also that the issue tracker wasn’t the right place for that discussion.
This indicates that they are aware of the threads about this stuff here on Lemmy.
Please don’t dogpile the issue tracker, and give an opportunity for cooler heads to prevail. Trust that if they’re a piece of shit it won’t take long for them to confirm it (again) loud and clear. Not saying this isn’t a whole big bunch of bullshit, just that they should at least get a small opportunity to respond with their side.
If you hand someone a shovel and they use it to dig their hole deeper instead of filling it in, it’s even more fun to watch them fall in.
Fair enough. I was more just trying to say that dogpiling on the guy wouldn’t change anything.
As far as them showing their ass again, I’m pretty sure that by the time you made this comment, they had already made their “public statement”. And doubled down.
They claim that the targeting of trans/queer places was due to the violent rhetoric they saw going on in the spaces. Surely it’s against deserving targets, but this guy feels that calling for the death of people isn’t ok no matter the target. Theoretically if there had been spaces not allowing that, they wouldn’t have blocked those ones.
We won’t know because the spaces that do exist do also allow it. Personally I think that people should be able to express those extreme emotions, and that other people shouldn’t be forced to see it if they don’t want to. Personal filters, potentially based off crowd-sourced lists are what makes sense to me. My issue with this whole thing is that they did it secretly, and did not actually give users options to opt-out. Then at that point there’s not even a point about arguing what the motivations were.
But as it stands, the guy’s an ass. And confirmed it in less than 12 hours.