I don't understand, why harass the forker when surely the real target is whoever is adding this (alleged) spyware?

he started a poll to choose a name for the fork and “Sneedacity” was given as an option, purely for jokes

4chan folks voted for the name

after refusing to accept the name (since the the fork had a serious intent), the folks started to threaten him and his family

for what followed and author’s comment, see his exact comment: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/48#iss...

So apparently sneedacity is a real github repo now.

It apparently got added to the AUR but was subsequently removed.

Here's the google webcache: