In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.

I found some horrifying comments from this user.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target. …”

Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml

Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706

https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the code might be fine. But if I want to support the development of Lemmy, say with a donation, am I financially supporting a piece of shit?

      I’m not saying every contributor has to be thoroughly vetted, or that I have to agree politically with every contributor. It just feels icky, and I get the concern users have.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I donate to Lemmy.world but that doesn’t go to this Lemmy dev in question, only Ruud and his team. You can donate to specific instance admins who aren’t batshit crazy hateful scumbags and support the growth of healthy instances.

        • kglitch@kglitch.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.

        • bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          OMFG He isn’t getting the death penalty just because we don’t donate to him

          The whole point is to disincentivise people to act like this, it doesn’t ruin the product but to a certain extent you are supporting his views if you support him financially

          Maybe because they are not around other people is the reason why they act like this, you are more likely to see others as people if you are part of the society instead of being withdrawn and hiding behind a username

          I would much rather have this guy at McDonalds or an Amazon warehouse putting stuff in boxes than part of social media dev team

          Because yes even though this is open source people make decisions and can affect how information is received

          There is a reason why users stay away from for example Truth social and Rumble, we don’t want to associate with that stuff… also why companies fire employees who say and do bad stuff on the internet