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woah 😯 the #Keet community's response to cultural commentary is INTENSE.

I'm out. Fix your shit & release an official statement, #BigTent #OpenSource #fascists.

See Keet official " #Pear Community" group for the crazy.

Reporting back on this confronting interaction with the #Holepunch / #Keet community in their official #Pears channel last December 13th/14th (depending on your timezone).

https://kolektiva.social/@pospi/115714114504044153

TLDR; yes, it's another violent #DistributedWeb #DWeb community incubating hate projects and including #fascist actors.

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

The first response was mockery from a user by the name of 'Solar Saint': "Sounds gay". I can deal with mockery- it's a minor enough culture smell if dealt with well. But it was ignored, thus normalising the tone. And far worse was coming.

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

A user by the name of 'dmc' is where the majority of the vitriol came from.

"No. We’re not doing this. Any of it. Whether you’re left or right - fuck off with your culture wars. I’m going to deconstruct this nonsense here one time and then we can focus on building good stuff for the peers"

"Free speech as used by the far right is the same as any given subject used by any political entity that seeks to attract the disenfranchised" [continues with a lengthy diatribe on #FreeSpeech maximalism that was probably generated by AI]

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

A quick reverse image search on the avatar of 'dmc' reveals him to be https://github.com/davidmarkclements - an official Holepunch team member. So the core @holepunch_to team includes abusive people who bully away anybody who raises cultural issues. Cool.

As problematic as the #RespectabilityPolitics are, the only relevant official guidelines for the chat are "Speak freely, but always with respect. Insults or toxic language won't fly here." No admins or mods intervened or responded to David's contributions, so I can only assume that "fuck off with your culture wars" constitutes acceptable official conduct.

Goose meme. First panel (the suspicious goose's face): "What is meant by 'toxic language'?" Second panel (goose chasing man): "What is meant by 'toxic language' motherfucker?"

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

David Mark Clements seems to have some vocal fans by the names of 'Silver Surfer' and 'superwoody', and a YouTube channel where he apparently posts right-leaning recruitment through a disingenously centrist lens. I have not bothered to explore that content. I'm sure I've heard it all before.

(image via @TheDialecticalCommunist)

A rendering of the Nazi eagle, with swastika in the tail. Each wing and the tail are circled & labeled.
Right wing: "Republicans".
Left wing: "Democrats".
Tail: "Centrists". — A rendering of the Nazi eagle, with swastika in the tail. Each wing and the tail are circled & labeled. Right wing: "Republicans". Left wing: "Democrats". Tail: "Centrists".

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

'superwoody' certainly seems like a hate actor, eagerly taking the opportunity to post Trumpist anti-progressive rhetoric-

"Free speech is actually originally left ideology the fact that it's viewed as right is truly astounding. The bad guys in history have always been the ones against #freespeech"

"The so called modern left is tantamount to Nazism, where it wants to take away people's lives for use of mere words or discussing topics it doesn't like."

(To dmc's credit, he did actually push back against the 'Nazism' comment a little, in a characteristically meandering and verbose way.)

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

The same reductive individualistic logic I have seen peddled across more or less every #DWeb community I have ever engaged with of course gets some airtime here:

"In short #Keet, Pear and #P2P is about #decentralization and that means giving power to individuals and taking it from large entities like governments and companies ie meta etc"

Sure bros, you've made your politics clear. It's all "I will not be ruled" here, "I will not rule" or the matter of what happens with that power once it has been siezed hasn't even entered awareness.

https://c4ss.org/content/56480

In suggesting that we "all work together on avoiding tyranny in all its forms", David seems completely unaware of his direct contributions to the tyranny of Pears' official channels.

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

I've no interest in getting involved in another tired debate where people like David Mark Clements and his fans assert the falsehood of tech as an apolitical phenomenon. Many have said it better than me, and to loosely quote one of them: oh my sweet summer child, computers are tools which INHERENTLY amplify power 🙄

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115877083071558201

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 11 hours ago

As I've already indicated, if no official response is given I will be creating strong sanctions around use of @holepunch_to software and contributing to their communities. I will no longer recommend #Keet or #Pears openly or to groups I work with, and instead take on the responsibility of warning marginalised people of their toxic culture and against engaging with them.

You have lost yourselves a fan, and created a vocal detractor.

https://kolektiva.social/@pospi/115720025399306924

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@pospi@kolektiva.social replied · 10 hours ago

Noteworthy that I also see people in the Pears community chat asking whether #Holepunch are part of the 'Privacy Accelerationists' group https://privacc.org and so seems pretty clear to me that #Keet's marketing is also attracting Landian #fascist #accelerationist hate actors.

I am aware that Holepunch's ~$10M in funding places them in an exponentially more powerful position than the impoverished progressive @dat_ecosystem that they've built atop of and co-opted. I also want to say that DAT's private responses to me have been exemplary in how to generatively respond to cultural issues. I hope to see people in the broader #DatEcosystem and @apereo continuing to hold that torch.

This is #OpenSource's damaging #BigTent philosophy at work yet again.

https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/115391398124441340

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