Same. Someone on Mastodon gave praises to https://upcloud.com/. They're also on Masto @upcloud@glitchy.upcloud.world
Their VPS plans look decent: https://upcloud.com/global/products/cloud-servers/#plans
source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/
DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we’re building.
There's been some talk of possible money laundering I saw on some threads in other Lemmy communities recently. I suppose that's possible. We may never know.
Let's call it what it is in tech right now; it's a supply chain attack against the whole industry. We're being told to grab a bowl of this shit stew of venture capital, solidified grifts, and xenophobia with a side of Elon styled political activism.
These fascists have bought, bullied, or got backing from fellow fascists to coopt the F/OSS community with sums of money not commonly used in this space. Elon bought a whole social media platform to craft it into a fascist/Nazi hellscape, strictly to sway public opinion.
These guys are taking it even further; the very tools and means of production are being setup as a deeper rot in tech.
The same fuckheads in DHH's orbit are only a few contacts away from Elon himself. We developers of all stripes need to move our projects off of corpo services. Self host your repo, partner up with like minded devs, make software for the people who need it.
This is for U.S. users. I linked to their Terms of Service for full text. You have to contact them via info on that page to opt out, however, this lovely popup doesn't let you proceed until you click the pretty blue button.
TLDR (Arbitration text):
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SECTION D.12 BELOW CONTAINS AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT THAT APPLIES TO ALL USERS LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES. PLEASE READ SECTION D.12 CAREFULLY.
THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT PROVIDES, WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONS (WHICH ARE LISTED IN SECTION D.12(a)), THAT YOU AND INDEED: (1) WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO PURSUE DISPUTES AGAINST EACH OTHER OR OTHER USERS THROUGH BINDING, FINAL ARBITRATION; (2) WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A DISPUTE ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE BASIS; AND (3) WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO PURSUE DISPUTES IN A COURT OF LAW AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL.
AS A JOB SEEKER, YOU MAY OPT OUT OF THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION D.12(k) BELOW.
I like how God decided to ragequit The Sims game he was playing.
Or user privacy.
Or valuing their own workers.
Or how to respectfully be a part of the F/OSS ecosystem.
Or humanity's desire to not live in a pollution stream from their AI processing centers (they're not really "data centers").
Or that we all wish LinkedIn would self-destruct under the weight of its own bullshit, and magically blink itself out of existence.
I like the software, so I'll overlook it's shady deeds.
Well duh... ICE confiscated the ice
^ THIS
This news is the signal to the usual parasites in his orbit that there's a play on the stock market about to happen again.
Indie/smallweb is promising and is growing.
There are indieweb dedicated spaces to search for these sites. Such as https://theindex.fyi/
It's a return to a very non-corporate web experience.
I hope these former employees, and the people in their lives, all do their absolute best to refuse to support Microslop every chance they get. Death by a thousand cuts adds up over time.
That's $80 I'll put towards indie devs.
I'm doing my part on Mastodon to spread the word. If you're on there, boost my post or start up your own.
https://veganism.social/@mattwebbdev/117311062704363151