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Lately, I've become more and more concerned that "systemd free" is shifting from a thoughtful objection to an outright crank signifier
It really is insane how many of these fashies hate systemd. Whenever someone says they dislike systemd(or rust being in everything, which is another thing these people seem to object heavily to) I immediately check their history for any weirdo shit and nine out of ten times they turn out to be fash. Saying this as someone who doesn't particularly like sytemd either.
I've always thought of linux as a vaguely commie thing but it seems like a) there were more libertarians in there than I thought, b) using linux appeals to some very right wing freaks who don't like the idea of not being in total control, and c) there's a right wing computer culture promoted by online influencers to nerdy young men, not dissimilar to right wing gamer culture.
The above site is hosted on neocities. I've been involved in the small web/personal web/indie web for a while (almost 6 years now, Jesus) and I knew there's a more right wing side to it but I hadn't come across it much (except for digdeeper linked to above, whose online privacy guides I read and took seriously before he started posting about Covid and I realized he was a conspiracy theorist). Then recently I found a neonazi's site on neocities through a Christian webring* and spent a while looking around in morbid fascination.
*You can't join if you support abortion or gay people, but apparently they don't check to make sure you're not a Nazi. I'm tempted to set up a competing webring for Christians with normal views....
I could see Linux attracting the "I am a superior intellect" types and then those people drifting rightward over the last ten years. If they didn't start out far right.
definitely. plus the woman-hating background radiation of a lot of online communities and media for teenage boys.
I found out about the rightwing / misogynist strain of FOSS mostly via the furore over RMS defending Minsky from Epstein allegations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beliefs_and_activism
nice find there:
Oh I saw that name before - https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
i was aware of "left-wing but rancid about women" as a common political perspective in techy fields, but I wasn't aware of many out and out right-wingers in the FOSS world specifically (beyond the odd TempleOS type kook).