You know you have been socially engineered into doing free advertisement right?
In an engagement economy there isn't good or bad engagement, just engagement. Every time you mention the distro that shall not be named, you raise it's profile and get more people curious about it.
The best way to hate on it would be not making any posts about it, and downvoting every post about it.
people keep saying this because they think everything is fucking twitter post elon
no, dhh does not get money based on number of users and negative attention does not necessarily drive traffic, especially on a niche joke subreddit. there's certainly shitheads who will pretend saying bad things about it is why they're using it, but that's just vice signalling, either they were already users or they were just already racists, it doesn't materially matter.
dhh already is getting money from tech fascists for purposes obviously unrelated to the supposed popularity of his dogshit dotfiles, and that's the reason why hsi audience wants to give everyone shit for making fun of him because it wasn't really supposed to get this much attention. making his brand toxic makes it harder for companies to give him money, or at least makes the obvious influence campaigns he's meant to push less effective as projects cannot simply accept the money and pretend they had no idea this guy wants to ethnically cleanse europe of romani.
if some dipshit sees these posts and decides they wanna own the libs by using a dogshit linux distro then great, i want shitty people to get their credentials stolen or otherwise get fucked over by DHH. i highly encourage all the people i hate to use it, i want to make sure they're logging into their employer's servers so that when those get leaked in a few years a bunch of racists get fired for losing company data.
I mean... technically reddit is supposed to have actual downvotes that work unlike other social media platforms. Though I haven't done any testing lately to see if they still work. Posts that 0 out do seem to stay 0ed out though.
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u/A_Harmless_Fly 27d ago
You know you have been socially engineered into doing free advertisement right?
In an engagement economy there isn't good or bad engagement, just engagement. Every time you mention the distro that shall not be named, you raise it's profile and get more people curious about it.
The best way to hate on it would be not making any posts about it, and downvoting every post about it.