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the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.

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Bryan Lunduke has always treated FOSS like a right-wing political project. he has also always misrepresented his goals as technical ones. the current moment is very convenient for him: he is using the valid need for an alternative to systemd to funnel people into fascist-controlled software ecosystems like Devuan and Artix. under no circumstances will Lunduke ever acknowledge the many init alternatives and distributions run by marginalized leftists. this is the game he has played for years.

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systemd has always been a lever of power; there’s no other reason to create an ecosystem of its shape. the person who grasps that lever is Lennart Poettering, and it always has been. I don’t need to write much on this; I watched the “oh shit” moment last week when systemd started accepting slop code, and again when an age verification mechanism was imposed on every systemd user and distro on Poettering’s final word. this was always the social structure on offer, enforced by a rigid ecosystem.
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Show threadDualtronic17h ago
@zzt When we used to shout this off the rooftops, people were all, "no no, see, it's *progress*! there are Good Reasons(tm)!"
Show threadSteven Reed17h ago
@felix @zzt I was one of those, I'm afraid to say. Now rapidly reconsidering my positions and wondering if I'm too old to learn a BSD :(
Show threadKat S
@srtcd424 So far, Alpine has been the easiest install I've ever done, and I started in the '90s. Just FYI :)
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Show threadDualtronic12h ago
@KatS I've played with Alpine, thanks. It's another potential option.