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Upon the land of free discourse, Ruqqus stood,

A haven born of Reddit's exiled brood.

With dreams of speech unfettered, unwithstood,

A realm where thought and word were not subdued.

But slowly came the whispers of disdain,

As tribes of hate found harbor in its reign.

The promise of free speech now bore a stain,

And darker clouds arose, foreshadowing pain.

With heavy hand, the ban-hammer did fall,

On guilds that once had thrived within its hall.

A paradox of freedom did enthrall,

As Ruqqus' lofty promise hit a wall.

Alas, amidst the storm, its pillars shook,

And Ruqqus, once a dream, now bore a darker look.

The above sonnet elucidates the downfall of Ruqqus, a platform that emerged as a haven for free discourse, akin to Reddit but with a promise of lesser censorship oai_citation:1,Ruqqus - Wikitiaoai_citation:2,Ruqqus | Know Your Meme. However, the core tenet of free speech that Ruqqus held dear became a double-edged sword. The platform started facing criticism when it banned certain guilds, notably MGTOW, without providing a substantial rationale, thus betraying its own foundational promise of unrestricted discourse oai_citation:3,Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main ....

As the user base grew, a flood of intolerant and hateful narratives began to pervade the platform. What was once a libertarian majority morphed into a breeding ground for racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic rhetoric. The influx of such ideologies, particularly around the time of the US elections, overshadowed the initial premise of free speech and led to the departure of many from the libertarian base. The platform, now overrun by extreme ideologies, began to mirror a space dominated by Nazi rhetoric, which ultimately tarnished its reputation and appeal oai_citation:4,Death of Ruqqus: A Retrospective | Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe.

The tumultuous path of Ruqqus unveils a nuanced tale of how a noble vision of free discourse, when left unchecked, can spiral into a cacophony of hatred, leading to the disillusionment of its community and the eventual downfall of the platform.

Pay rent, Twitter rentoids!

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149lbxl/twitter_is_being_evicted_from_its_boulder_office/?sort=controversial

Bike chads stay winning

Discussion question for all of the carcels here: how are cars supposed to be promoting "freedom" again?

Informal announcement on their chat community that was locked by jannies

RedditAlternatives discussion

Empress's identity REVEALED as Voksi the Bulgarian! Is it over for piracychads?

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15spn46/shipgraveyardsimulator2readnfoskidrow_response_to/?sort=controversial

Empress's response (Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15ssekk/empress_response_to_skidrow/?sort=controversial

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Look how afraid they get:

Your first ninety minutes rather than days, I dare say. CTO here, you pull that trick and not only are you out of the door but you fly out with a charge of vandalism, sabotage and theft.

tl;dr

A guy found a bug in kernel on an obscure architecture no one cares about (PowerPC32) and submitted a patch. The maintainer decided the patch was no good and fixed it by himself, crediting the guy with "Reported-by" tag. A year later, the guy wrote a blogpost crying that wasn't enough.

Links

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16tf5ne/how_i_got_robbed_of_my_first_kernel_contribution?sort=controversial

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671991

A lie in the blogpost

I was also open to working with him, addressing his feedback and sending subsequent versions of patches. He said (paraphrasing):

Sorry, I like my version better. If you want to be a Linux kernel contributor, here's an issue you could fix.

I found this really perplexing and insulting.

The funny thing is, the above "paraphrase" is actually a lie and the kernel maintainer was very polite and respectful. This is what he actually said:

Hi Ariel,

I've added Christophe to Cc who works on ppc32.

I haven't actually reproduced the crash with gdbserver, but I have a test case which shows the bug, so I've been able to confirm it and test a fix.

Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

I've also attached the test case I've been using.

Christophe are you able to test these on some 32-bit machines? I've tested it in qemu and on one 32-bit machine I have here, but some more real testing would be good.

If the patch works then I'll need to do manual back ports for several of the stable kernels, and then once those are ready I will publish the patch.

cheers

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The maintainer did exactly what they usually do, I see absolutely nothing unexpected here, note that this was an unsolicited patch sent to a security mailing list.

If this is what the maintainer usually does then the maintainer is a wanker. If they leave the project, the project won't be losing a good person.

Indeed, maintainers are disposable. It's easy to find a codecel willing to put years of quality work into an obscure part of the kernel, for free.

Random users and drive-by contributors are much more important to the health of the project. They are much more likely to be a good person. We must not let them feel unwelcome, at any cost.

Agreed. I see the job of an experienced maintainer as a facilitator who should bend over backward to help other people's contributions land cleanly. The help often involves feedback on style and architecture consistency, but a sign of a great maintainer is someone who credits others, and mostly stays behind the curtain making sure everything goes smoothly.

You WILL bend over backwards for random people sending their shitty patches and you WILL love it.

Amazing how the hostility is perpetuating all through HN here as well.

I have seen (and sadly self experienced!) this kind of story way too often. And let me tell you this: This guy is now burned by this bad interaction and is successfully shooed away.

And some folks wonder why "nerds" and "geeks" are seen as socially inapt...

I don't even think that Mr. Ellerman had any malicious intents. But it just shows again, that the so called people skills are nothing to be neglected when choosing leading figures.

To paraphrase George Carlin: "It's a big club. And you're not in it!"

The maintainer should be immediately removed from his position and replaced with someone with good people skills. Ideally from an underrepresented demographic.

Funny how it's the small contributors that inevitably end up being the ones who have to set their ego aside and not the well known committers. Sounds very much like an old boys club.

Yeah, it's shocking that established contributors set the norms for the project.

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