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Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique look and feel imagined by the user who creates it. It’s a very exciting project!

Unfortunately, the effect is spoilt by an incredibly toxic and hateful community. I 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.

I empathise with Vaxry. I remember being young, smart, productive… and mean. I did some cool stuff, but I deeply regret the way I treated people. It wasn’t really my fault – I was a product of my environment – but it was my responsibility. Today, I’m proud to have built many welcoming communities, where people are rewarded for their involvement, rather than coming away from their experience hurt. What motivates us to build and give away free software if not bringing joy to ourselves and others? Can we be proud of a community which brings more suffering into the world?

Update: Response from Vaxry, Hyprland Developer

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Incorrect, from wikipedia:

The available research indicates that the brain structure of androphilic trans women with early-onset gender dysphoria is closer to that of cisgender women than that of cisgender men.[3] It also reports that gynephilic trans women differ from both cisgender female and male controls in non-dimorphic brain areas

Aka: Trans women may have been born with the body of a man, but they were born with the brain of a woman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence#:~:text=The%20available%20research%20indicates%20that,in%20non%2Ddimorphic%20brain%20areas.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't feed the trolls, report & block them.

Edit: Ahh, the joy of running your own instance :)

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you please explain what you mean by the edit?

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Because I run my own lemmy instance, I can ban users from it. Effectively it's exactly the same as blocking them (their posts won't ever reach me), but it does feel slightly better.