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.
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.
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.
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?
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:
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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.”
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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)
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.
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Bunch of chode losers in that camp.
Cringey as fuck.
This dude markets his distro the same way that Trump tweets: slopped out while sitting on the toilet.
Ok ratiod by cybersecurity https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
Okay, so marketing by slop narcissistic supply. Got it.
This is cringe af.
I can’t believe this is coming from DHH, proof or this is a troll
Why would you don’t believe it?
I’m sorry, this is real
Fix our bash wrappers? Nah, lets vibe-code a shitty webpage attempting to make fun of critics. Also upload the source because … that matters.
I didn’t mind omarchy before this website (yes, I know, I’m a fascist).
Now I’m the biggest hater of it.
This is sad and cringe.
Um don’t they know that the jester is the one in the court who tells the truth?
That would require them to be educated and have self awareness. Don’t be ridiculous.
At least they got the incest amongst royalty right, that would explain some of the cognitive issues.
Simultaneously AI slop and riddled with basic grammatical errors. Impressive.
Do we really need to share this garbage?
I don’t need to but I want to because I feel that behaviour like this needs to be called out.
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.
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.
The modern equivalent, is what OP is doing. And they most likely don’t even understand it and genuinely think they’re helping.
I’m aware that Omarchy is trying to - in their own words - "counter the balance in politics. However I’m just sharing this because there is fair technical criticism against Omarchy and they seem to dismiss it as bad opinions, and the webpage goes as far to ridicule the people their own project depends on. In my opinion this is unacceptable behaviour (as the implied tone of my post) regardless of politics and should be shared as an example of what not to do. Even if my post was political - which it isn’t - the post is simply exposing something bad they did. Why sharing rejection over an idea would fuel the idea in the first place? And if if did it would very much interest you on showing me how to handle the situation.
Well, we’re living in an attention economy. And if a shitty project can grab your attention in amy wayz it’s a win for them.
I really don’t understand this logic. If I’m pointing at something shitty they have done and someone knowingly joins them then nothing is lost. We just identified another shitty person.
If the argument is that with their popularity they misrepresent the Linux community, then why not make them infamous with posts like mine?
I would really like for you to convince me that dismissing the topic is the better course of action.
You present two options of cause and effect as mutually exclusive, but I think both options belong together as one.
You’re not making them ONLY infamous with your post, but also equally famous with the crowd that might have otherwise missed them completely. A large community gives rise to influence.
You can for example look at how the german extreme right party is gaining more and more followers and support even though they are only ever in the news for outrageously dumb or criminal stuff they did.
Sloperators peddle more slop.
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”.don’t shoot the messenger?
please
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 thisSo i would upvote if it was about any of the real distros, not made by racist scum.
No karma on Lemmy, getting DVs is just isolated feedback so no pressure.
Why is everyone talking about omarchy ?
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.
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.
Because the tech bros support the nazi-distro. Which should come as a surprise to nobody.
Astroturfing campaign
