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Of course it differs by the individual. I think there are three camps: Those who have read DHH's blog posts, and agree with them. Those who have read DHH's blog
by phendrenad2 2mo ago
Of course it differs by the individual. I think there are three camps: Those who have read DHH's blog posts, and agree with them. Those who have read DHH's blog posts, but think "he couldn't possibly mean that". Those who haven't read DHH's blog posts, but know that he's on "their side" (right-leaning).
- qup 2mo agoYou seem to be talking about users. They're talking about creators. I don't think users know who DHH is, or care who DHH is. Probably like 0.01% of users have read a blog post, let alone a political one. (Maybe they all are, I haven't read any)
- rbanffy 2mo agoIt still feels like they are supporting a notorious neofascist.
- threecheese 2mo agoDisagree there; anyone who installs Omarchy does it because a social media creator they like suggested it, and there’s only a few degrees of separation between those creators. This isn’t like Slackware’s popularity in the 90s, peer to peer, this all top-down. I’d call it hype-driven, if they didnt have a neat product (which I’m not a customer of).
- majorchord 2mo agoAlso have to disagree with you there... there are other ways to find out about distros besides social media or people suggesting it. Back in the day, one of the only ways people even found out about new distros was through sites like Distrowatch who just reported on the facts of the distros and never tried to market them to people.
- qup 2mo agoExactly. I mostly read about distros right here in the comments. I had no idea DHH was political. I don't follow Linux YouTubers, why would I?
- rblatz 2mo agoWhat about the people who have no idea who DHH is, what he stands for, and have heard about Omarchy for the first time just now and are trying to figure out what it even is and suddenly people are talking in circles about him being eccentric or problematic.
- kristofferR 2mo agoYeah, this is so annoying. I switched to Omarchy 4.0 from CachyOS and is having an amazing experience so far, barely know anything about DHH other than that he made Rails, and now everybody is calling me a racist sympathizer.
- skywhopper 2mo agoWell, you should probably look into the open and loud politics of DHH before defending him.
- teekert 2mo agoWhat about "ignoring him, not knowing him, just using his product" is defending? Are you using Nestle products? Ah you do? You must be all for stealing people's water well and selling them bottled water from it.
- hvdfhb 2mo ago[flagged]
- majorchord 2mo ago"You use a computer? and a phone? Clearly you have no problem with forced child labor mining raw materials to make electronics and batteries!" /s
- evilduck 2mo agoOmarchy is just a pile of settings and a branding, you could have configured Cachy similarly and wouldn't have to associate yourself with the racists. Be careful of the company you keep.