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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.
I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.
This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too "purity test" for me. The reasons listed are, let's say extremely tepid in many cases.
I've never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.
I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.
I guess all I am saying is... Use whatever products you do or don't want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.
I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I'm listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.
Omarchy isn't even good. It shouldn't even be called a distro, it does nothing new. It's basically a script installer for arch
Sadly, this whole scheme has been resumed into "Don't use Omarchy because they are nazis!" -- "Oh? And where you got that idea from?" -- "B-b-because It's what they are!". It's nothing else than a shit-flinging contest, with no logical/coherent reasoning other than typical emotional/impulse-driven reactions for the sake of "feeling included".
Also, it's sad to see at how this community went downhill fast because of politics, and on how the mods shrug at these posts -- we are, indeed... reddit now.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
Did you even look at the evidence people always provide when talking about DHH? Or are you saying advocating for ethnic cleansing isn't nazi? Ime people love to pretend that leftists are just making shit up when most of the time we show the receipts, which are even in the link in the original post here.
child didnt even look at ANY of the evidence . AND THEN when they want to criticize the evidence presented , doesnt link ANY counter evidence .
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