I wonder if it was this one: How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission, which had to be edited because they said “I do not condone any hateful messages sent towards any of the parties mentioned.” then said where they worked and named them.
Or maybe it was Freedesktop/RedHat’s CoC team is worse than you thought., which has a similar intro of “I want to preface this with how this post is not to start a hate campaign on RedHat, Freedesktop, or the people involved”
Maybe it was Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS? Oh, thats the one! So I guess the apology was this sentence:
if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views.
which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server
that is inclusivity
Or maybe:
Growing up in the internet of mostly the 2010s, everyone would be calling each other “retards” online, and that would be regarded as one of the lightest things you’d call people when mad. At least in the spaces I was hanging out, nobody would care, even people who would have actual diseases, or were on the receiving end of a slur targeted precisely at a group they were a member of. Hell, I was too.
I definitely am not a fan of how seemingly weak people online, especially teenagers, have become. Words are just words. Someone calling another person a “retard” shouldn’t really be a big deal. Obviously, when repeated 100 times it can be annoying, but then it’s no longer about the word itself, it’s targeted bullying.
And a question posed on a Q&A in 2024:
After getting banned by freedesktop and after the few blog posts, do you still stand for the points said in the blog post? Is there any plan on trying to get unbanned or resolving such relationship?
Which had this reply (emphasis is mine):
Despite what the FDO people have claimed as “reasons” to ban me (they’ve given like 3 different ones, none being compatible with the CoC they have) I’ve never broken the CoC on their platforms
I’ll note the actual “apology” post, Changes to the Hyprland community
Shortly after our exchange of blogposts, I have conducted an anonymous poll about harassment on the discord server. With about 300 replies, the results were not great, as about 30% of people reported feeling uneasy about the state of the server.
I would point out that the first three I mentioned were roughly 1 year after the changes from this post were apparently put into effect.
The only thing I would say in support of Vaxry is that he is still quite young. I hope he learns from his own past behavior and moves in a positive direction. As of right now, I do not get that impression.