Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by pelagicAustral » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:09 PM UTC

Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
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Post by shadowgovt » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

When all is said and done, in this era moreso than ever, interpersonal concerns influence software decisions at least as much as technical concerns.

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Post by ohazi » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

I say this as someone who has used Audacity and Musescore for years, and who has been subscribed to Tantacrul's Youtube channel since before he got involved with Musescore because I thought his UI/UX rants were hilariously good.

I've been trying to follow this story as closely as I could manage, but even I don't understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

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Post by tomrod » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:29 PM UTC

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

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Post by Ygg2 » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:29 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #4

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

Same as always. For the lulz.

Edit: Upon closer inspection, it seems cookiengineer had a vote for fork name. And Sneedacity won. After deleting that option 4chan went on a frenzy.

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Post by netr0ute » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:29 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #4

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

Actually, we should wonder why they would have the "audacity" to do this.

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Post by bawolff » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC

Does anyone have a tl;dr as to wtf is going on? How does something like this escalate to this level?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:34 PM UTC

ohazi wrote: post #3

I say this as someone who has used Audacity and Musescore for years, and who has been subscribed to Tantacrul's Youtube channel since before he got involved with Musescore because I thought his UI/UX rants were hilariously good. I've been trying to follow this story as closely as I could manage, but even I don't understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

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Post by DevKoala » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:34 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #4

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

I think that they don’t trust the maintainer. However 4chan raids like this are often run by third parties that can benefit from attributing this type of behavior to “anonymous” individuals.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who bullied this individual had the goal of getting the original independent fork abandoned while also getting the new fork cancelled on the grounds of hate speech all along.

I visit 4chan and the site is full of propaganda from government and entities with enough capital to pay astroturfers or build bots. At this point it is safe to assume that “anon” is not always some edgy hacker kids but a government, bank, large company, etc.

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Post by owlbynight » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:35 PM UTC

There need to be harsh, harsh penalties for showing up uninvited to someone's house based on something that's happened or been said on the Internet. This is little kid shit and they either need to learn or have their toys taken away so they can't keep doing it.