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

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Is this an effect of the microplastics in our brains?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it can't be ruled out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It also can't be supported

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago

It's the effect of a persistent decades-long disinformation campaign perpetrated by those who wish to destabilize western democracies which has been signal-boosted by naive (or maliciously designed) recommendation algorithms on social media platforms.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So far they have only made me more gay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

avoiding microplastics is now homophobic??!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

ha gaiiiii :3