I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here


Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop

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As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

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      7 months ago

      You see if it was closed sourced it would be the end, but because its open and is actually really useful, it’ll be picked up by a new team

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      7 months ago

      TL;DR the nix community forums are toxic from all sides

      There’s been a spout between core contributors + the foundation vs a loud portion of the community. Some related to code, but from what I’ve seen, the loudest have been about social issues and values.

      It all boiled over when a military contractor wanted to join the list of sponsors for one of the conferences (upcoming on in USA?). That caused a lot of tension, the foundation came to a decision not to accept sponsorship and tried to put sponsorship rules in place for future sponsors. These were however perceived as too blurry by some parts of the community as they wouldn’t prevent such a situation from happening again.

      In the aftermath, a frequent contributor (John something?) was suspended and we’re now here.

      On top of everything an open letter was released targeting the creator of nix (Eelco Dolstra). They claim his benevolent dictatorship is not so benevolent and accuse him of multiple things.


      There are people who just get on with writing code and are very helpful in the forums and other community channels, but the, let’s call it “management style”, of some people on the project is not beyond reproach. Big egos and a mix of bringing in issues external to the project has made the forums become a very unfun place to be.

      Edited to clarify that they actually did accept sponsorship from the defense contractor.

      Anti Commercial-AI license

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    7 months ago

    As an outsider looking in, it looks like it’s a bit of a wipe the slate clean governance and moderation wise as voted on by the community.

    So, now over the coming days the community will in essence vote on whether they will allow sponsorships from the military industrial complex.