Time to find a new VPS host.
Why don’t they give to Linux Foundation? Or Debian/void or other projects…
So pissed; just found out about this Saturday, so I spent Saturday evening checking out the VPS providers, and Sunday moving everything over, re-importing data, dealing with DNS caching delays, etc. I had other plans this weekend. I was a fan of DO, even have DOCN shares, which I’m going to dump.
Well, at least, if everything works out with OVH, I’ll have double the RAM and be paying less than half of DO.
Overpriced VPS reseller joins the Fascist Linux Project.
Seems like everything is being run over by fascists these days.
Honestly that may be the entire point of this. The right wingers are trying to carve out their own corner in the world of FOSS. Understandable given the spirit of open source is literally the antithesis of what they believe in, however they also can’t ignore it now cause it’s vital infrastructure.
“Fascism in your technology is inevitable”
Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?
I seriously don’t understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to “mismanage” it.
My bet is that the tech bros hang in the same bar, and they’re just doing that for fun, and they don’t really care about the plebes not getting it.
Glad I left Digital Ocean like almost a decade ago, yet it still feels I’ve been with them for too long.
When capitalism can’t find a new way to grow and is challenged by dominees, it funds fascism as an investment towards to guarantee their dominance
Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people?
👨🚀🔫 always has been
thanks for the heads up
Take that survey, express yourself
oh, i did
But why? Why is everybody funding this piece of shit? Besides being shit politically it’s also shit technically. I don’t get it.
Well, you see, it’s somehow using AI and it’s run by a dick.
What’s not to love about it?
Temu Elon?
It’s not about the software. It’s about creating a far right pipeline. Like they did with gamers and anime. Billionaires pay for users.
Guy who made a popular thing once announces revolution in efficiency, looks impressive on the surface but is just desktop riding for the uninitiated.
I’m more flabbergasted
how littlewhat you have to do to get 3 millionEDIT: Changing this up as I’m sure a lot of people work hard on this thing and perhaps more did before this guy outed himself as a douche
Did you mean ricing?
Have you seen GoPros stock price in the 30 days?
I’m so lost. What does GoPro stock have to do with Omarchy and DO?
GoPro was kinda washed… They had huge success early but they thoroughly over-saturated their own market and then stagnated in the face of competition. Maybe about a week ago announced they were now an AI/datacenter company…
Point is, if you slap an AI label on just about anything someone out there will give you money
Oh it’s like that shoe company declaring they are an AI company.
A youtuber with a large following bought a substantial share in GoPro. I think it is is a comment on how immature stans are subservient to their para-social relationships and throw their money at men they idealise instead of working to improve themselves. Comparing Markiplier with DHH is really unfair to Markiplier but its all the same weak minded exploitable herd behaviour. It doesn’t matter if you are a preacher, politician, con artist, influencer or OF model - manipulating fools seems to be part of the human condition.
@statelesz @selfhosted @bretton.dev
You just explain why…
I just don’t get it. Separating the art from the artist is not a black and white thing…Like a lot of people worked on the harry potter movies and many people fell in love with those before reading the books, and when Rowling went anti-trans, you could reasonably argue that the films were a collaborative work that you can still love. But this? A pre-configured Arch made by one guy who makes his headline presence maligning minorities? I don’t see how giving money to him is anything other than a company saying his views are explicitly endorsed by the donor.
Even if we do separate the art from artist, what’s the actual draw of this distro?
honestly, if it wasnt for lemmy i would have no idea the guy was racist. i just hear “ruby on rails creator has new distro thats easy to use”.
And if it wasn’t for your post I wouldn’t know he created Ruby on Rails
I think after initial hyprland success showing what’s possible, more similar window managers and desktop environments cropped up and that is the real benefit for all of us and that happened without omarchy. I’m currently on mangowc + DMS and I think it’s better than hyprland.
Really feels like it. Look at the paragraphs and the list here.
For anyone who is struggling to figure out how to delete their DigitalOcean account (it’s not obvious):
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
- This redirected me to a different setting page with an option to deactivate my account
- Click Deactivate Account
- Select the checkbox to purge your account data
- Confirm that you’d like to deactivate and purge your account
- (Optional but recommended) Fill out the exit survey and tell them that they’re supporting a neo-Nazi
5 - Thanks for your input casually puts paper in bin, it was great having you…
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
WTF. Why not contribute to Arch, Cachy, KDE, Inkscape, Krita, Kdenlive etc. Omarchy is just a meme distro of half arsed dotfiles. How is hyprland better than Niri or Cosmic built on Smithay which are at least written in an over hyped safe modern language. Why are some d-list tech celebs dotfiles better than my quickshell config? And how about we sponsor something that would make a real difference to people like better accessibility in Gnome and KDE or is that too woke these days?
If you announce yourself as a fascist, the fascists will pay you. Its how most of them make their living; the rest steal from their employees
How is hyprland better than Niri or Cosmic built on Smithay which are at least written in an over hyped safe modern language.
Or i3/sway for that matter.
I have a meeting with a DigitalOcean Account Manager scheduled for tomorrow because I wanted to move my business over from Azure. Guess it’s time to cancel it and tell them why.
It’s a shame, I actually really liked their service when I used it. There documentation in particular was really excellent.
Good luck finding a non-evil (or at least less evil) service, sincerely.
How can an outsider support your business?
This is hilarious
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
Yes, go with the MIC, actual fascist supporting megacorp to stick it DO
Honest to God, I’m not a tin foil hat kinda guy, but I can’t wait to read the papers on the strategies around centralizing technically adept ‘activists’ (WH definition lol) onto cooperative platforms by hugely exaggerating tiny shit like this in 40 years. This is even more poorly sighted than the Mullvad stances from a few weeks ago.
How many killings did digital ocean orchestrated with AI?
I think your comment is needlessly antogonizing. I’m not unaware of MS’s complicity in the genocide, which is why I’m moving away in the first place.
“The genocide”? Is there just one?
TWO genocides!?
Common weirdo ml take
I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?
I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?
It’s not about being a “hater” or not. DHH is basically a white supremacist and it should be basic human decency to oppose that
Most of the people going on about him take a lot of umbrage with his racist ideology, but all he seems to do with it is blog. If there are more material concerns (like with Proton) then I’m not seeing them be raised.
People who have raised money before are better at raising money. Not that I fully understand why they throw so much at this project. But I don’t also quite understand why some projects get billions just like that.
networking plays a big roll in such things. the more connections you have, the more possibilities. in my job that is normal as well ( not for donations, but it’s important to get a job)
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Meanwhile the maintainers of the project it’s based on are unpaid.
I don’t like dhh and I think someone like him shouldn’t control this much money going into foss but I think the point of omacom is to pay those maintainers
Only the subset they like (it shouldn’t take you long to find what they said about why they made their own project, like who they wanted to exclude)
Do tell me why anyone should fund projects they don’t like.
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There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.
im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?
Precisely because of what is described in the post.
Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.
He doesn’t have “questionable” political views, unless you consider open xenophobia and fascism no more than questionable. He went beyond questionable a while ago and into being truly unpleasant and promoting harmful ideas.
perpetuating arch on society is the biggest crime
but also the racism and white supremacy
Left-of-center people hate DHH and by extension everything he does and everyone he networks with because “he’s a fascist”.
Maayyyyybe because he is?
I mean, if far-left radicals call someone a fascist, that’s debatable. But everyone left of center? Maaaaaybe they’re onto something here?
but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support
It makes gatekeeper types in the Linux ecosystem happy, because it preinstalls you neovim, hyperland, and a bunch of bloatware, so they can get to their tinkering much faster.
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Not that I want to disparage anything you’re saying, but: I’m fairly sure the person you replied to was calling Omarchy users “gatekeepers”. That’s how I read it anyhow
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