I wouldn’t let him anywhere near an open source project again, or even anything involving the Fediverse for the matter. His actions goes against what everything FOSS/Fediverse/Lemmy is stands for if you think about it. You can’t be putting obfuscated code (which is nearly exactly how malware delivers their payloads to avoid detection via base64 encoding and offloaded from a c2 server) and somehow expect people to trust you again. Nope! All it took was for him to swap out the file for anything seriously malicious and nobody would have caught it in time.
And the weird censorship stuff goes against Lemmy and the fediverses ideology and principles as a whole. Like, why are you here then? That type of stuff is why many people left Reddit for Lemmy in order to escape it. Ironically, I left Reddit because of the API changes and not being able to use my favorite Reddit app (RiF) and now the same thing is almost happening all over again, except now the API changes straight up censor me instead of blocking app access outright. Its just a different side of the same coin really. Just stay on Reddit if you want to do this to people.
For someone to pull the same BS again in a place that is supposed to promote inclusiveness to LGBT and many other types of “left wing” people is just wild to me. Many people just want a place they can feel comfortable in. The fediverse needs to remain a free and open place for all. Maybe I’m doing something right if someone is willing to hardcode me into their petty little blocklist in order to silence me. I’ll just keep fighting more!
I wouldn’t let him anywhere near an open source project again, or even anything involving the Fediverse for the matter. His actions goes against what everything FOSS/Fediverse/Lemmy is stands for if you think about it. You can’t be putting obfuscated code (which is nearly exactly how malware delivers their payloads to avoid detection via base64 encoding and offloaded from a c2 server) and somehow expect people to trust you again. Nope! All it took was for him to swap out the file for anything seriously malicious and nobody would have caught it in time.
And the weird censorship stuff goes against Lemmy and the fediverses ideology and principles as a whole. Like, why are you here then? That type of stuff is why many people left Reddit for Lemmy in order to escape it. Ironically, I left Reddit because of the API changes and not being able to use my favorite Reddit app (RiF) and now the same thing is almost happening all over again, except now the API changes straight up censor me instead of blocking app access outright. Its just a different side of the same coin really. Just stay on Reddit if you want to do this to people.
For someone to pull the same BS again in a place that is supposed to promote inclusiveness to LGBT and many other types of “left wing” people is just wild to me. Many people just want a place they can feel comfortable in. The fediverse needs to remain a free and open place for all. Maybe I’m doing something right if someone is willing to hardcode me into their petty little blocklist in order to silence me. I’ll just keep fighting more!