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The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Post by labster »

notRobot wrote: post #3

> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation. Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they…

Someone bullied by Kiwi Farms decided to hit back at a forum member there. Said Kiwi also had an account on my wiki farm, so they demanded that I divulge PII about the user or else become a victim of cyber bullying myself. Suffice to say that I decided to enforce the GDPR, and to this day there is an attack page on the internet calling myself and my mother pedophiles because I chose to follow the law.

Kiwi Farms is a toxic community where even their own targets are dangerous.

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Post by psyc »

FounderBurr wrote: post #20

You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it. Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.

The biggest problem with KF, as I see it, isn’t really what they do and say. Most of what they do is quote people, and most of what they say is snappy, mean quips about the quotes. I’m sure there have been incidents when forum members escalated further, but it’s not their usual MO.

The problem is that they specifically select targets based on how they react. The more a target obsesses over their own thread or responds emotionally to what KF posts about them, the more KF focuses attention on them. So KF’s favorite targets who get the most abuse are going to be exactly those who are least equipped to handle it.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Post by woodruffw »

colesantiago wrote: post #13

What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people? Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and shouldn't happen to anyone. I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.

> What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user?

KF itself has been around for nearly a decade, and some of their targets had been harassed by members of KF for years prior to founding a dedicated website. There might be kids on KF, but the average user is firmly in the adult demographic.

> I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.

It's a mentality of dehumanization: their targets, in their eyes, deserve less than the basic dignity we give to human beings. That capacity for dehumanization stems from years of indoctrination in reactionary communities.

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Post by gaudat »

>For a utopian future, we need to start an initiative to pair every talented programmer with a dedicated on call 24/7 tard handler. No massive HR departments, just one handler per programmer and the massive value they could potentially produce gets split 50/50. The programmer does their thing, and the handler tells them to stop posting shit on Twitter or hanging out on Discord and takes them on walks outside when they're about to have unstable meltdowns or send six figures to someone who runs a bully website.

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Post by sodality2 »

loeg wrote: post #23
sodality2 wrote: post #10

>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him . Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.

Pretty tone-deaf and unnecessary to nitpick a eulogy.

This was not the eulogy quoted.

Regardless, that was absolutely not my intention. I meant to highlight the pronoun misuse because I've seen a handful of comments here misgendering them, and it's really sad to see that happening to someone who just passed.

My apologies if it came across as rude or tone-deaf. I attempted to edit after but I am on a mobile client that doesn't support it, nor even deleting comments.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Post by [deleted] »

loeg wrote: post #23
sodality2 wrote: post #10

>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him . Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.

Pretty tone-deaf and unnecessary to nitpick a eulogy.

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Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Post by smoldesu »

winocm wrote: post #9
colanderman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CloudFlare is providing them DDoS protection.

They really need to stop. They did it for 8chan, why not this? How many more people need to die before anything changes?

I'm not endorsing what they do, but Cloudflare isn't the only option for DDOS protection. If you take them out now, you'll probably just send them deeper into the decentralized web, which is probably not a mutually amicable solution.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Post by someperson »

someperson wrote: post #29

byuu/near was active on Hacker News too: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=near

Here is byuu's emulation retirement post from 15 months ago: https://archive.md/2020.03.21-185629/https://byuu.org/articl...

(and previous HN discussion on that retirement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644647)

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