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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

    • veganes_hack@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      god damn it. i guess the name of the founder might have been a hint, only one letter away from our favorite roman saluter.

      i use immich, one of the projects they seem to have actually funded in a big way. it’s a very good selfhosted replacement for google photos. at least the license is actually open source, as opposed to grayjay, so here’s hoping it has a future in case the fascists try to fuck with it.

      i guess the problem though isn’t with the funding and/or control of individual projects, it’s with the long-term influence in the foss community they seem to be after.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      of course the organization I know primarily for platforming fascists and astroturfing on YouTube was secretly an even worse grift and somehow tied in with Yarvin, why wouldn’t it be

      given that Rossmann’s at the head of this thing too, I’m starting to regret not taking GrapheneOS (who, notably, were also a target for this grift) seriously when they said Rossmann’s involved in a bunch of terrible shit. the right to repair deserves a better figurehead.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        hadn’t been aware that rossman’s into dodgy stuff (knew fairly little about him outside of some repair stuff on his channel), but ugh

        also clicking through into FUTO’s projects and it’s all a bit gravitating around a point, “built on polycentric”. so I wonder what that means?

        Polycentric is an open-source, distributed social network that lets you publish content to multiple servers.

        already at “I’m interested” because it’s interesting to see what other work happens in this space.

        and then very next sentence we get to

        If you’re censored on one server, your content remains accessible from other servers

        ah. I see. the “opt-out moderation” is also telling - how does it work? who knows! it’s got a paragraph under introduction but seems to not be mentioned anywhere else in the docs.

        extra frustrating to see because the projects these fucks are taking on (like the open cast thing) are items that sorely need stronger options in the open space. but not like this. never like this.