>Time to cancel this compositor hate machine. is it really /g/? is it over? is it all just shillery?

Hyprland is a toxic community
September 17, 2023 on Drew DeVault's blog
Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on a project started back
in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved
its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” beautiful graphics and
animations, each configuration tailored to the unique look and feel imagined the user
who creates it. It’s a very exciting project!
Unfortunately, the effect is spoilt an incredibly toxic and hateful community. cannot
recommend Hyprland to anyone who is not prepared to steer well clear of its community
spaces. Imagine a high school boys' locker room come to life on Discord and GitHub and
you'll get an idea of what it’s like.
became aware of the issues with Hyprland’s community after details of numerous hateful
incidents on their Discord came to my attention way of the grapevine. Most of them
stem from the community’s tolerance of hate: community members are allowed to express
hateful views with impunity, up to and including astonishing views such as endorsements
of eugenics and calls for hate-motivated violence. Such comments are treated as another
act in the one big inside joke that is the Hyprland community the community prefers not
to take itself “too seriously”. Hate is moderated only if it is “disruptive” presents as
spam), but hate presented with a veneer of decorum (or sarcasm) is tolerated, and when
challenged, it’s laughed off as a joke.
In one particular incident, the moderators of the Discord server engaged in a harassment
campaign against a transgender user, including using their moderator privileges to edit the
pronouns in their username from “they/she” to “who/cares”. These roles should be held
trusted community leaders, and it’s from their behavior that the community’s culture and
norms stem they set an example for the community and define what behaviors are
acceptable or expected. The problem comes from the top down.