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It shows a picture of a AI generated image of a king and queen referencing them as Omarchy users. Then it shows a floating icon of a jester representing Linux users that pops up some of the following quotes:

  • The peasants whiper the whole distro castle vibe-coded
  • It's a bunch of dotfiles
  • Ricing is not engineering, my liege
  • Congratulations, you have discovered i3
  • Two JPEG's, a gradient, and delusions of monarchy
  • Zero days since the last zero day, sire
  • Coronation was on Tueday, the build was red
  • Wait until they hear about NixOS
  • It's not a distro, . It's a theme folder with a domain name
  • It's the worst distro in the market, they cry. Its not even a distro

I believe this whole thing was done in response of some "monarchy" and "oligarchy" comments on Omarchy around the fediverse. It is also sometimes weird to get the "joke" because the speaker changes.

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[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 76 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Um don’t they know that the jester is the one in the court who tells the truth?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That would require them to be educated and have self awareness. Don't be ridiculous.

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago

At least they got the incest amongst royalty right, that would explain some of the cognitive issues.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 34 points 5 days ago

Cringey as fuck.

This dude markets his distro the same way that Trump tweets: slopped out while sitting on the toilet.

[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It seems to me they know what they're doing: the controversial posts have been nothing but marketing to them.

Up until today I have never heard of it before. But now I'm seeing plenty of discussions around them, most regarding controversies.

That being said, regardless of their political instances (that does seem to be terrible, although I have no interest in diving deeper), there's nothing there that smells good to me when it comes to what I would expect from a FOSS/Linux project.

That being said, that will possibly be the last time I interact with a post about this. Not interested in giving them any extra attention.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Up until today I have never heard of it before. But now I’m seeing plenty of discussions around them, most regarding controversies.

The biggest way the far right recruits, is gaslighting useful idiots into "raising awareness".

It's actually how it made a comeback with 90s daytime TV. They were given a literal safe space to spout their shit 99% of people found reprehensible. But there was always a couple kids who were home sick or expelled. People who would fall for it, but we're never exposed to it. Or poor out of work people, kind of the target demo.

Before that, they had to recruit in person where they'd get punched in the face for it.

The modern equivalent, is what OP is doing. And they most likely don't even understand it and genuinely think they're helping.

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[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago

This reads like a cry for attention, a lame slop nothingburger.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 37 points 5 days ago

This is sad and cringe.

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 38 points 5 days ago

Simultaneously AI slop and riddled with basic grammatical errors. Impressive.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do we really need to share this garbage?

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 days ago

I don't need to but I want to because I feel that behaviour like this needs to be called out.

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 34 points 5 days ago

Sloperators peddle more slop.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lol this shits like what i found cool when i was 12. We roleplayed as monarchs on a minecraft factions server.

Edit: also whats with the nixos thing? What connection does nixos have to making fun of omarchy other than the fact that everyone should make fun of it?

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is super bizarre.

Edit: also whats with the nixos thing? What connection does nixos have to making fun of omarchy other than the fact that everyone should make fun of it?

I'm not sure, I suppose it is one of two things:

  • People make fun of Omarchy saying "Wait till they hear about NixOS" meaning that "How do these idiots have not yet realized that NixOS is perfect for what they are trying to do."

  • In response to "It's just a bunch of dotfiles" Omarchy claims that NixOS is a bunch of dotfiles too. (This one does not make too much sense)

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

It could easily be the second one actually, arguments dont have to make sense when youre throwing arround insults like a 12yo. Also it might be that nixos has a huge queer userbase but thats also true for arch.

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Okay, so marketing by slop narcissistic supply. Got it.

[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 5 days ago

No idea what is going on and who all those people are. What is Omarchy?

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I don't care who DHH is but if he wants to put his ego all over his projects that fine but I'll pass. Yeah the Ruby on rails guy is gonna make a good distro everyone. Cause you know all your favorite projects use Ruby on rails.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The fact that the broader Linux community even acknowledges this, let alone pays attention or acts upon it, is really sad. You do you and move on. Literally nothing to see here.

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I agree on focusing on what is important and moving on, however what Omarchy just did is equivalent of someone entering a restaurant and shouting "everyone who was inside before I entered is a clown". Feels like this case requires attention.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yea, but also reacting to that would just prove he was right. There is a saying, "a wolf is not bothered by what the sheep think".

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of Omarchy. Don't care what they have to say.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 27 points 5 days ago

Nazi distro

[–] TheBluetoofs@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago

Bunch of chode losers in that camp.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 17 points 5 days ago

When your slop project that rides on top of Arch Linux gets 8 million fascbucks and you have no idea what to do with it.

[–] german@pawb.social 10 points 5 days ago
[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago

Whose gonna make nazi.fyi?

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why is everyone talking about omarchy ?

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

last week DHH got a few of his friends to give him a few million for his dotfiles. since then he's been using said funds to market his dotfiles thus the reason you're seeing more posts about it, more youtube vids from "content creators" saying how great it is or how fantastic it is that the money could potentially go towards FOSS projects (Bradie, Typecraft, bunch of others who have clearly been given a little something something). DHH is also running a competition for omarchy plugins with the winner getting something like $4000 so the store is flooded with well over 1000 vibe coded slop (and exploitable) plugins.

it's all marketing for the eventual rugpull of what I anticipate being "Omarchy Premium". that's 100% coming.

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

it’s all marketing for the eventual rugpull of what I anticipate being “Omarchy Premium”. that’s 100% coming.

I have no doubt there are people that are going to pay that with their eyes closed, they paid $300 for attending their conference.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago

Astroturfing campaign

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Because the tech bros support the nazi-distro. Which should come as a surprise to nobody.

[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is cringe af.

I can't believe this is coming from DHH, proof or this is a troll

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why would you don't believe it?

[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fix our bash wrappers? Nah, lets vibe-code a shitty webpage attempting to make fun of critics. Also upload the source because … that matters.

[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 days ago

I didn't mind omarchy before this website (yes, I know, I'm a fascist).

Now I'm the biggest hater of it.

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if i should downvote this because its a nazi distro, or upvote so more people can learn about that...
I think i will downvote because i want to see less of this "distro".

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

don't shoot the messenger?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 11 points 5 days ago

No karma on Lemmy, getting DVs is just isolated feedback so no pressure.

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago
[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago

Oh nothing personal :) I just want to send a signal that I would rather not see more with this topic here :)
I believe that is mostly the point on lemmy - at least on the lemmy's that I frequent.
Upvote = more of this
Downvote = less of this

So i would upvote if it was about any of the real distros, not made by racist scum.

[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 5 days ago

I think you'd have gotten a better reception on !linuxmemes@lemmy.world :)

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

what is this gauche shit?

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Honestly, thanks. Please. Keep going with this nonsense

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Apparently Henry Cavill is the King of Omarchy

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