Post by @drakulix@social.dreampi.es

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es

2026-09-22 09:43 UTC

I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DHH. And then extending on that thought with “I knew he wasn’t trustworthy, when he mentioned having worked for Google and Apple” (not a direct quote) after also stating that they are working for notable open source projects. The notion, that somebody needs to have been a FOSS-evangelist since their very birth is absolutely ridiculous. Sorry to be age-ist about this, but some of you clearly never have tried to get their Wifi-Stick working with ndiswrapper and it shows. Almost nobody knew what Linux was 25 years ago. There was no money in open-source, big tech wasn’t as big as today and actually driving innovation. *I* and many people I knew, wanted to work at Apple or Google when I was a teenager. And that wasn’t something you had to be morally defensive about. Are we really blaming people for trying to make a living? And of course all of this has a heavy overlap with the most insufferable parts of the Anti-AI crowd, but I don’t have it in me to go there today.

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@knievelcat@fed.amazonawaws.com 2026-09-22 14:35

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es I think a lot of people are just scared and confused about the state of the world. I definitely am. There's a lot of misinformation and propaganda going around about AI and it's hard to know what is real anymore. But that's no excuse to be an asshole. The world is shitty for everyone. Be kind.

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de 2026-09-22 14:36

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es “leftist infighting” “insufferable parts of the anti-AI crowd” yea i smell nuancetrolling all over your post

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@eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st 2026-09-22 12:01

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es @erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net "has evolved into"? I think FOSS has always been like this; there's always been a subset of very loud users who will chastise you if you don't make your life as difficult as possible in service of the religious aim of free software (and their own personal interpretation of it) in the past it was just having a go at people who used macbooks instead of linux laptops (or any Apple product really), or something like that. heck, remember the whole systemd holy wars

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