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Like y'all keep posting about it, praising it, giving it free advertisement, and what not.

But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.

I've met people who were harassed, I browsed through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.

So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don't know and would act otherwise?

It gets tiring to see the project be given "fame" when I know the roots of the plants are founded in toxicity & abuse.

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you tell me the political affiliation of the creator of grep? I use that tool a lot.

I think it's impossible to know for sure what the political thinking of the people involved in everything that happens to have contributed to something in your life is. Some people are not even easy to discern.. some people are interpreted out of context, some people are just caught in drama.

I'd rather take advantage of their work, be thankful for it but without any sort of para-social intent, just thankful for the mathematical algorthms.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Not sure, but if you're interested to know I'm sure the information is out there :)

Edit after your edit:

Its impossible to know everything perfectly, but you can know some things to some degree and take action based on what you do know. Some will choose to not bother, and that is their decision to make, but it is a decision.

Anyway I think we're talking around in circles at this point. Have a good one.