Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.
Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.
I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅
Note that both the community council and most moderators are volunteers not employed by Canonical.
i wish i could understand why people would volunteer their time for a for-profit corporation.
Why the fuck does an operating system have ANY rules relating to queerness?
Edit: why are y’all downvoting them for being out of the loop?? Lemmy get your shit together
They don’t- a moderator to an online ubuntu forum community (that recently became official) misapplied a rule about keeping things apolitical as meaning someone shouldn’t describe themselves as queer.
Ubuntu has made a statement correcting the interpretation made by the moderator
Isn’t everything political these days. So you’d be able to talk about nothing.
Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.
A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.
