Forum: FOSS Harassment Monitoring – Archiving public attacks on open‑source contributors

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This thread is for documenting instances of targeted harassment, public shaming, coordinated pile-ons, and other forms of abuse directed at contributors to free and open source software projects.

The goal is purely archival: to preserve a record of what is publicly visible across GitHub, mailing lists, Mastodon, forums, and other platforms.

If you have a link to a public post or thread where a FOSS contributor is being harassed (e.g., personal attacks, death threats, sustained bad-faith criticism, coordinated brigading), please share it here along with a brief description and a screenshot or archive link.

Guidelines:
- Only public content. No private messages or non-public logs.
- Do not encourage further harassment or retaliation.
- Keep commentary to a minimum. Let the evidence speak.

Example entries to start the archive:

1. Libreboot / Leah Rowe
- Context: Libreboot maintainer Leah Rowe has been the target of repeated harassment on GitHub and Mastodon, including being called "Francis" (deadnaming), mocked for her gender identity, and accused of being a "troon" or "schizo" by users on KiwiFarms and other platforms.
- Sample posts:
- https://kiwifarms.st/threads/open-source-software-community.38130/post-24219626 (mockery, deadnaming)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260410131141/https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/4230 (accusations of "sperging out")
- Related: Leah's Mastodon thread where she responds to harassment (https://mas.to/@libreleah/116380603410653309 )

2. Hyprland / Vaxry
- Context: Vaxry, creator of Hyprland, has faced repeated calls for his removal from open source spaces due to his political views.
- Sample: GitHub issue threads, Reddit posts calling for forks, etc. (find links)

3. Omarchy Linux / DHH
- Context: Pull request adding Omarchy support for Libreboot led to Leah Rowe's involvement and subsequent harassment. (https://web.archive.org/web/20260410131141/https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/4230 )

If you have a submission, reply with:
- Project / person affected
- Link to public post or thread
- Brief description of the harassing behavior
- (Optional) screenshot or archive link

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Anonymous · 2026-04-14 03:21 [#3329] [report]

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>Libreboot maintainer Leah Rowe has been the target of repeated harassment on GitHub and Mastodon, including being called "Francis" (deadnaming), mocked for her gender identity, and accused of being a "troon" or "schizo" by users on KiwiFarms and other platforms.
Lol, lmao even. Did you look at Francis' beautiful crotch axe wound pics yet, xister? https://web.archive.org/web/20210725094145/vimuser.org/littleleah.html

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sage · 2026-04-14 03:22 [#3330] [report]
PS: WTF is happening to thumbnails?

sabremathia · 2026-04-14 05:35 [#3332] [report]

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>>12466
wtf is this negatorn FBI trap to enforce age verification with your "compiled set of evidence".

>>12467
for the pictures,

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sabremathia · 2026-04-14 05:35 [#3333] [report]
wtf is happening with cyberix?

Anonymous · 2026-04-14 07:41 [#3336] [report]
>accused of being a "troon" or "schizo"
Leah is literally a schizo troon, this isn't even an insult it's just an easily observable fact that they are a tranny and routinely have paranoid meltdowns about how nazis are crawling in his walls waiting to get him.

>>12470
It certainly does appear to have been made with ulterior motives in mind, if they were really seeking to compile harassment they would have done a better job
Let's just be completely fucking honest here, who doesn't know Leah is a troon? And yet the OP makes deliberate attempts to muddy the waters and act like it's slander and only rumors from the kiwifarms. HE took a photograph of HIS penisless hole and posted it to HIS website

FOSS Harassment Monitoring – Archiving public attacks on open‑source contributors

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