the problem is that the majority of the internet users are clueless in general and they act as a mob.
one ill-minded person spewed utter lies against a project name and then the mob jumped along him to lynch the author and the maintainer.
those people don't have the decency to apologize or even try to restore what they destroyed. They only become louder and louder and ofc, try to make some money on top of it.
Yeah, I saw that too, but he only posted claims and not any proof.
It looks kinda shady.
Well I didn't like the elimination of alternatives from the github poll because they didn't follow the agenda of the mods of the fork, but now I am alarmed with this thing.
They haven't even started working on the project and they are already talking about monetizing it.
How are you going to ask for people's money if you haven't done any work?
Seem to me like those professional victims that make money from "soft" people. I hope there was no-one who was guilt-tripped to throw money to those individuals.
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the sad part is that websites like hn are echo chamber for twitter drama and on top of that incubate and protect such narratives.