Nixos Woke Invasion
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NixOS Woke Invasion
The Woke invasion of the NixOS community can be traced back to as early as April 2021 (see: discourse.nixos.org, github.com). It appears to have reached its zenith in April 2024 when the woke moderation team’s mischiefs 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 what exactly this will engender.
Timeline
Notable events since Nov, 2023:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 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 | Banning of Jon Ringer, and the authors of RFC 175 (nrdxp apcodes); moderators begin resigning (see below) |
| 2024-05-01 | Eelco steps down |
| 2024-05-01 | Zulip is chosen for governance discussions (allowing banned members with “extreme prejudice” and threat of permaban “[if] they blow it“) |
Moderation team
Evidence of woke moderation
Resignation
Just a few hours after the PR for RFC 175 was opened, several moderators began to resign from the team:
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 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 the constituent assembly perpetuate or end wokeism?
WIP
This is just a rough skeleton log of events as they continue to unfold. A coherent report will be written once the assembly has done its job.
- Self-professed manipulator joepie91 (Sven Slootweg) is involved from beginning
- Preemptive squashing of dissenting opinions: github.com
- Allowing safetyism-based silencing & banning: github.com
- cf. shlevy <-> zimbatm on Matrix
- A predominantly woke moderation team (6 of them from Europe, incidentally) was chosen to moderate the Zulip: github.com
- 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 (responsible for banning Shea)
- lassulus (unknown yet; but did relay the spurious message justifying Jon’s ban)
- Zulip topics of interest:
- Shea Levy got banned (infinisil folded to the rest of the moderators)
- Assembly applications open old.reddit.com
- Assembly announced: old.reddit.com
- several months before their work is done, and the results can be appraised.
- delroth publicly accusing Shea Levy of being ‘fascist’ mastodon.delroth.net
- Someone’s calling out of recent (biased) mod actions x.com
- Calls to drop r/NixOS from nixos webpages; banning individuals from the official wiki for being banned in official venues: x.com
- old.reddit.com
- sock-puppets of woke users trying to worsen the drama, e.g.: old.reddit.com
- Jun 4: zimbatm removes Srid from nix-system org (also replying to him on X) and blocks him on GitHub; Srid is (coincidentally?) banned from nix-community GitHub org on the same day: x.com
- Jun 7: zimbatm formally announces leaving Foundation writing “I also messed up in many places [..] the worst part was all the conflicts that erupted in the community that I couldn’t address adequately. That was difficult. Many people got hurt emotionally. I’m sorry I failed there.”
- Jun 10: Target date, public repo, office hours, interviews
- Jun 11: After his suspension, Jon Ringer comments on RFC 175