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[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts

sigh

I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

Damn right. He needs to quit, he's the one who sucks.

The fash don't have magic doodoo fingers that obligate decent people to surrender every time they touch something we like, and we should never concede as if they do.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 12 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.