Woke invasion of the NixOS community can be traced back to as early as April, 2021. It appears to have reached its zenith in April, 2024 when the woke moderation team’s mischieves reached the public eye.
On May 1st, 2024, the Board decided to delegate powers to an unspecified “community” (see “Eelco steps down” below), however it remains to be seen as to what exactly this will engender.
Timeline
Notable events since Nov, 2023:
Date | Event |
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2023-11-14 | Author gets banned for ideological reasons |
2024-01-28 | Witch-hunt by NixOS moderator Martin Weinelt (hexa) to get the entire NixOS Asia domain, as well as Srid, banned from the Lobste.rs site |
2024-02-12 | Report of the moderators perma-banning David Arnold |
2024-03-10 | Continued criticism of the mod team by community members; a NixOS moderator “piegamesde” publicly accuses Srid of being “transphobic” |
2024-03-20 | Continued criticism; Jonas Chevalier (zimbatm) publicly lies about Srid; then threatened and successfully shadow-banned the people raising criticism |
2024-04-22 | Attempt to depose Eelco Dolstra |
2024-04-26 | RFC 175; Banning of Jon Ringer, and the authors of RFC 175 (nrdxp apcodes); moderators begin resigning (see below) |
2024-05-01 | Eelco steps down |
2024-5-01 | Zulip is chosen for governence discussions (allowing banned members with “extreme prejudice” and threat of permaban “[if] they blow it““) |
Moderation team
Evidence of woke moderation
https://github.com/nrdxp/rfc-evidence/blob/master/rfc_evidences_experiences.md
Resignation
Just a few hours after the PR for RFC 175 was opened, several moderators began to resign from the team:
Date | Name |
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2024-04-26 | Ryan Mulligan |
2024-04-28 | piegames |
2024-05-01 | rhendric (Ryan Hendrickson) |
As of May 2nd, this leaves hexa
and the newly-joined lassulus
as the only moderators.
Will there be a woke constituent assembly?
These are rough notes of events until I have the time to flesh things out.
- Self-professed manipulator joepie91 (Sven Slootweg) is involved from beginning
- Preemptive squashing of dissenting opinions: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/142/files#diff-ad7ee810e67ff78b1b7f55f7113b7e291719780d95065a82e68a5b83a19462fcR23-R25
-
Allowing safetyism-based silencing & banning: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/144#discussion_r1588136289
- cf. shlevy <-> zimbatm on Matrix
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6 Europeans (no surprise there) so far have been chosen to moderate the Zulip: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/144#issuecomment-2091819630
- infinisil was quite sensible, until to the point of ceding to banning Shea Levy (see below)
- RaitoBezarius is woke.
- hexa is woke.
- Janik is woke
- endocrimes is woke
- lassulus (unknown yet; either playing along or woke)
- Zulip topis of interest
- Shea Levy got banned (infinisil folded to the rest of the moderators)
-
Assembly applications open https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cojgjs/applications_for_nixos_constitutional_assembly/
- 2/7 “marginalized” (ie., woke)
- 2/7 external consultants (DEI consultants?)
- At the worst case, 4 can override the 3, formally establishing the woke invasion
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Assembly announced: https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ct3tdb/nixos_foundation_board_constitutional_assembly/
- delroth publicly accusing Shea Levy of being ‘fascist’ https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/112450680035780629