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STOP OMARCHY - Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (stopomarchy.neocities.org)

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Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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[-] anzo@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am locking the thread only because the comment sections has turn out to be full of toxicity. I am reserving my opinions, but seldom bans will be issued for those who defend far-right, support lies, and lacks basic ethics and/ or human empathy. Feel free to reach out via the report button. Do not use it to defend yourself from "insults" when people disagree with you.

[-] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

With all the options aroud, I really don't see the point to even try it.

[-] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FUTO

Louis Rossmann

Richard M. Stallman

Jacob Appelbaum

suckless

Fuuuuuck...

[-] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

Louis Rossmann

Wait what?!

There's three points next to his name:

"Worked with" someone who has some links to right side politics to get funding for a right to repair non profit.
- Unless there's more info somewhere, I don't see this being overly bad since he's all about trying to change laws for the better, and just by virtue of doing that you will need to at least interact with the slimy part of politics.
Anti-trans: which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”
- So identity denying. This looks more like he doesn't have enough information than a case of far right conspiracy trans are pedos shit. Seeing how he's changed his mind about things in the past when presented with new information, and knowing how deep he goes into rabbit holes (especially when it comes to rights) when he finds them, I see this as unfortunate, but potentially redeemable.
Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username “larossmann”.
- I don't have enough information on this to have a proper opinion. This looks like something that warrants further investigation...

[-] andronicus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks for being a voice of sanity. While I don't care for defending celebrities on the internet, I also don't care for purity testing, and since I have been a booster of his work and ideas on occasion, wanted to do a bit of due diligence and had largely come to the same "smoke but no actual fire" conclusion

On that last point, I was really curious so I suited up and checked it out: https://kiwifarms.st/search/39060321/?t=post&c%5Bcontent%5D=post&c%5Busers%5D=larossmann&o=date

He has only posted on exactly one thread, funnily enough about him (but not started by him) and all of the comments I read have been talking about various bits of content, but I did not see anything that I would consider out-of-character or promoting hate in my opinion.

Is this a good look? Not great for sure, since Kiwi Farms is definitely an edgelord paradise. But oddly enough, its at least consistent with his ethos, since he always talks about being bipartisan.

[-] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

In my point of view this is a witch-hunt, i dont know many of the names. I checked some people on the list and the allegations, make your own research - i dont take this list of „clean foss and the it-scene from this people“ serious.

[-] parlaptie@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Am I blind? I don't see those people mentioned in the article anywhere

[-] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Extended list.

Also check out Fashware and Weird Little Guys Of FOSS, on which the extended list was based.

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[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 days ago

Amazing how much shit an unremarkable pseudo distro can stir up. Deservedly. Techbros like DHH are a cancer.

[-] crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't give a shit about DHH or Omarchy.

The sad part and why it sucks so much is because instead of feeding people we just gave $18m to a fascist to babysit some shitty post install scripts......

Reality is stranger than fiction.

Edit. FUCK every org associated with Omarchy. I'll never give them a fucking dime.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 85 points 3 days ago

Reading The Omarchy Doctrine made me physically cringe. That alone is a good argument to boycott Omarchy.

[-] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 55 points 3 days ago

It's wild how much it just sounds like a heritage foundation list but with "nerds" slapped to the front

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't surprise me if they're behind this somehow.

Or some of their creatures at least

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago

This is some deeply unserious nonsense. Omarchy will blow up the moment it gains any real traction. I can see the infighting coming from miles away, the money will make it worse. Stacking up on popcorn might be a good idea.

[-] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 43 points 2 days ago

The Omarchy Doctrine is a public, fascist creed: heritage as duty, hold the line, the will to power. It matches Roger Griffin's palingenetic populist ultranationalism and Robert Paxton's first stage of fascism: a creed, a leader, followers...

this guy knows how to spot fascism

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[-] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 3 days ago

As someone who was vaguely aware of omarchy and an arch user already, I had no interest in using it. I am happy to see more people talking about why it could be controversial. It helps counter the propaganda being pushed by the influencers right now. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[-] Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 47 points 3 days ago

"Me: Oh a list of assholes to avoid, nice. Shopify, who tf is that? EZ. 1 keep sucks, lol. Dell...they make trash, easy. Meta, lol, already done. Coin base more like Rube Base am I right? Digital Ocean still relevant in the hosting world? I thought they'd have gone the way of Go Daddy, Ez boycott list."

"Brain: You skipped one."

"Me: reads again Fffffffffffuuuu"

I have no fucking clue how to effectively boycott CloudFlare, gang. That's...kinda the point of how they positioned themselves.

Stupid fucks, they're the only one who stands to make as much hand over fist whether open source enshitifies or not. Except if it enshitifies enough, their spigot stops spilling money.

Greedy cunts and the allure of control, what a dynamic duo.

The fuck to use to replace the quintillion different services CF sells?

Asking for...several friends, actually.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

Shopify is the platform that the vast majority of online stores use. It's basically as hard to avoid as CloudFlare.

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[-] rozodru@piefed.world 23 points 2 days ago

And this is just going to fuel on the fire that is DHH's crusade. He's already called the linux community "a bunch of clowns" so this is just going to generate more money for his dotfiles and more than likely grow the userbase.

Granted the Omarchy userbase are a bunch of morons. Also doesn't help that youtube linux content creators are all pretty much praising the damn thing and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know why. Makes it easy to know which creators to unsub from but it literally leaves it with 4 left one of which doesn't post anymore.