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I'm out of the loop, what bashing and abuse? Every time I've seen Asahi mentioned, everyone here's falling over themselves to remark on how impressive a technic
by apetresc 2y ago
I'm out of the loop, what bashing and abuse? Every time I've seen Asahi mentioned, everyone here's falling over themselves to remark on how impressive a technical achievement it is.
- colechristensen 2y agoLikewise I don't think I've ever seen anything even mildly criticizing Asahi here on HN and by comparison that's saying a lot.
- ziddoap 2y agoIt generally gets flagged, but there's definitely been some bad comments. I don't think that what I've seen, if directed at me, would get the same response -- but I obviously don't see it all, nor have it directed at me, so it's not really fair for me to say.
- MBCook 2y agoI’m seeing a number of say are approaching/over the line now that haven’t been flagged out, and I don’t have shoe dead on. And there aren’t all that many comments yet.
- snvzz 2y agomight be --> actually is. Nobody has any doubts left at this point in time. Whole deal is ridiculous.
- bombcar 2y agoComments about how one developer might actually be another developer qualify, I believe.
- acomjean 2y agoIt might be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 I too had the impression people here love asahi Linux. But as the comment said those negative posts tend to disappear. I’m not fully onboard (I don’t have a MacBook, supporting closed hw from a single vendor) but I see the appeal, and to me getting more people using Linux is major plus that outweighs the negatives. I’m not going to tell people who are generously donating their time to something not to do so.
- Klonoar 2y agoThat disclaimer when visited from HN has been there forever, it’s not related to recent news.
- colechristensen 2y agoHere it is, the original developer quit in a long post. https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/ https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l... My read is this is a case of a person taking on a huge project and burning out emotionally.
- MBCook 2y agoNo, it long predates that.
- viraptor 2y agoLook at older posts with showdead on - there's a lot of personal attacks, claims about vtuber identity, trans hate, etc. It's been a bit more chill recently, but the history is there. (apart from the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 which has lots of terrible people again)
- 0dayz 2y agoTo be fair a lot of them are newly created accounts that troll spam.
- viraptor 2y agoThat doesn't change the content in any way. Of course people will use one off accounts to be assholes.
- 0dayz 2y agoSure, my point is that it's not a majority of organic hatred but artificially inflated instead.
- Teever 2y agoHow exactly is that fair?
- defrost 2y agoA fair assessment might be that instead of a large number of regular users leaving bad comments there is a small number, potentially even one, that spin up sock accounts to make a disproportionally larger number of bigoted comments.
- ldoughty 2y agoI think that's the point being made in the banner message / plea. Here we are, still able to see that content.. and so can search engines and AI. No one here at HN has done anything to remove the content that only exists to attack and demean, even though it looks like troll accounts. We down vote it, flag it, hide it, but it's still there. I don't know much about this particular situation, but I can empathize.