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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (stopomarchy.neocities.org)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[+] -7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes. You are. You people are acting like Omanchy existing will bring down democracy as we know it. Its just a project. Sure its got some weird backing and DHH is a scumbag, but y'all need to calm the fuck down. Just ignore it. It will go away.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    It's not just a program it's a movement. It has budget of 13m usd that comes from corporations who have maybe 0.01% of their user base on linux. Why do you think that is? Why would 1Password and friends do this?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Just because their goal may not be explicitly pushing far right nationalism doesn’t mean it’s ok to ignore. They must be shunned. Their political messaging is hate and none of us should support or condone that.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago

    But we aren't supporting or condoning it. We also aren't shunning them. We are signal boosting this nonsense "distro" into the stratosphere. I am extremely online when it comes to tech and Linux. The first I heard of Omarchy is complaints on Lemmy. I've seen like three total people talk about it outside of lemmy. All of them were easy to skip ads. The actions here instead flood the feed with news about it over and over and over.

    Normally the impact of a small group of people wouldnt matter but we are the exact demographic that they want reach with this. and y'all are doing the work for them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    They won't listen... here's a response to a similar comment I saw in another thread:

    Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now

    You can't reason with unreasonable people.

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