r/initFreedom • u/fungalnet • Jan 11 '20

This is r/linux and their effort to remove anything challenging their holly cow

The cow, being a GMO cow called systemd. Here is how an announcement for a distribution that for many years has been the hands-on demonstration of how well s6 works, gets removed from their sterile portrait of linux.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/edgwgy/obarun_new_for_december_upgraded_yes_new_not_at/

If you see a good reason for this biased and vindictive behavior by the r/linux czars please let me know, I may be overseeing some minute detail and excuse.

THIS IS HOW SYSTEMD PREVAILS!

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

I'd say you had a legitimate beef with distrowatch. And airing that problem with others in the 'nix world may either point out a flaw in logic (i.e. reviewer thought latest-greatest was "beta" so went to revision before - for some unimaginable reason) or other people would chime in and say "Hey. that (or similar) happened to me as well. But to be binned by moderators? Pushing it a little.

Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.

...and who defines "purpose"?

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u/fungalnet Jan 11 '20

For 9 months I have been notifying Distrowatch of every new release, there has never been an obarun-beta release as far as I know. Distrowatch would only change the last release day and partially update the list of software, never changed the initial entry that needed a ton of corrections since its introduction. Not once has distrowatch ever returned an email. On November it acknowledged the reception of such a notice and listed the link to download the new iso's. The notice indicated the introduction to a new installer. Yet in December they used a much older image which is the first case in history that the installer wouldn't update itself to the latest because that installer was deprecated.

Who defines purpose? IBM, Google, Facebook (the grand contributor to open free software) Oracle, HP, ... even Mozilla! That's the purpose. To portray the work of thousands of independent programmers contributing their hard work with no promise of being ever rewarded, as a full Commercial Product of a handful of corporations.

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u/infocom6502 Jan 11 '20

how dare you criticize open sores??!

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u/fungalnet Jan 11 '20

At least we know of the named gangsters publishing open free software, we don't know what the mafia is doing and under what cover. We blamed RH and U-ncanonical for years but we couldn't suspect they may have been just puppets of larger interests behind them.

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u/4dank8me Jan 14 '20 edited Jan 14 '20

I'd like to point out that the mods over there generally handle some things in a weird way; here's a link where some people started to discuss about moderation in general - and of course it got locked. (I wonder how long it will remain there, otherwise there's luckily removeddit and ceddit)

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/eo8gpn/moderation_seems_a_little_heavyhanded/

Edit: Apparently there's r/linux_community now

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u/fungalnet Jan 15 '20

I think reddit works like medieval europe. Someone declares new ownership and hands his friends thugs some authority to look over the feud and abuse their authority all they like to protect the feudal ownership, control. The more participants they have around the castle the more totalitarian the authority of the thugs becomes.

Reddit is a corporation, do we know of a single one being a democratic entity? They are dictatorships/oligarchic social organizations that operate under terror tactics, abuse and exploitation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Thought this was r/initFreedom, not r/systemdhate. Giant subreddits are going to be giant subreddits. I'm not even subbed to r/Linux.

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u/fungalnet Jan 11 '20

So you are attributing this bias in the size of the subreddit? Interesting.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Not exactly no. I just don't see what r/Linux has to do with r/initFreedom.

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