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STOP OMARCHY - Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (stopomarchy.neocities.org)
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Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)
  • FUTO
  • Louis Rossmann
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • Jacob Appelbaum
  • suckless

Fuuuuuck...

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Louis Rossmann

Wait what?!

There's three points next to his name:

  • "Worked with" someone who has some links to right side politics to get funding for a right to repair non profit.
    • Unless there's more info somewhere, I don't see this being overly bad since he's all about trying to change laws for the better, and just by virtue of doing that you will need to at least interact with the slimy part of politics.
  • Anti-trans: which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”
    • So identity denying. This looks more like he doesn't have enough information than a case of far right conspiracy trans are pedos shit. Seeing how he's changed his mind about things in the past when presented with new information, and knowing how deep he goes into rabbit holes (especially when it comes to rights) when he finds them, I see this as unfortunate, but potentially redeemable.
  • Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username “larossmann”.
    • I don't have enough information on this to have a proper opinion. This looks like something that warrants further investigation...
[–] andronicus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks for being a voice of sanity. While I don't care for defending celebrities on the internet, I also don't care for purity testing, and since I have been a booster of his work and ideas on occasion, wanted to do a bit of due diligence and had largely come to the same "smoke but no actual fire" conclusion

On that last point, I was really curious so I suited up and checked it out: https://kiwifarms.st/search/39060321/?t=post&c%5Bcontent%5D=post&c%5Busers%5D=larossmann&o=date

He has only posted on exactly one thread, funnily enough about him (but not started by him) and all of the comments I read have been talking about various bits of content, but I did not see anything that I would consider out-of-character or promoting hate in my opinion.

Is this a good look? Not great for sure, since Kiwi Farms is definitely an edgelord paradise. But oddly enough, its at least consistent with his ethos, since he always talks about being bipartisan.

[–] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

In my point of view this is a witch-hunt, i dont know many of the names. I checked some people on the list and the allegations, make your own research - i dont take this list of „clean foss and the it-scene from this people“ serious.

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am I blind? I don't see those people mentioned in the article anywhere

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Extended list.

Also check out Fashware and Weird Little Guys Of FOSS, on which the extended list was based.

[–] creature@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are these names? I couldnt see them in the patron list

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

They were in the extended list

[–] crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reality is stranger than fiction.