are some of the supposed systemd alternatives run by fascists? yes they are. a do-everything init ecosystem is an irresistible lever of power for them. init should be thin and independent enough that it isn’t an ecosystem at all, but if we must have an init ecosystem then we must be very careful who controls that power. again, ideally, there should be no power to control.

with that said, can we please stop fashjacketing all of the people who recognize systemd and wayland as levers of power?

@lizzy the best examples I have of the ones reaching for an ecosystem are fortunately dead systemd forks run by absolute assholes.

the ones I’ve seen pointed to as examples in modern discourse are suckless init, which I don’t think anyone uses (for good reason, it’s baby’s first init made by nazis), and devuan, which doesn’t actually run an init project of its own but which is the most visible fascist anti-systemd ecosystem.