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Neatnik

I worry that some people aren’t taking Omarchy seriously enough. It’s not just another Linux distro. It’s a well-orchestrated campaign to centralize power and influence within the Linux FOSS ecosystem. And it’s working.

Anyone paying attention to DHH and what he stands for can see what’s going on here. When the guy who thinks that brown people don’t belong in society hires the guy who thinks trans people shouldn’t exist, you can see where this is going.

Phantasm

@phnt@fluffytail.org remote

@neatnik Make a better product. Just from looking at the incoming flow of money, it seems that there's lots of interest in what DHH is doing. No wonder investors are throwing money at a guy that wants to drop half of the desktop Linux foundation, when the rest is stuck bikeshedding in Wayland issues about how a protocol telling compositors about round window edges or screen positioning should work.

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wigbert

@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co remote

@phnt @neatnik institutional capture is a very interesting topic to me because it always happens and it always goes the same way. The linux community as is has largely become a nepotistic circle jerk only interested in maintaining their own fiefdoms

I have to give it to them, "post-meritocracy" is a brilliant way to reframe cronyism.

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Phantasm

@phnt@fluffytail.org remote

@RustyCrab @neatnik

When the community in the movement is almost divided in half about the issues of copyright/intellectual property (a dumb concept) and/or the usage of any AI, it benefits those that want the movement to die. So in a way, by being mad online about some free/open source project using LLMs, those that are angry are helping the other side trying to destroy their movement they are fighting for. How?

When everybody is preoccupied with endless and usually absolutely meaningless arguments ad infinitum, nothing productive ever gets done. The community is divided, contributors and maintainers from both sides now don't get along, forks that didn't need to exist happen and actual progress on writing good software stalls to a halt.

The movement dies.

- My blog post :)