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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:
The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists
I dunno man, people being furious about a very loose potential fascist association in an open source project while using a platform whose lead developer is a tankie. Kinda wild yelling at framework while supporting people who deny China’s human rights abuses.
Wut
How is using Lemmy supporting the tankie devs? I am not donating money or hardware to them.
Every time someone finds Lemmy for the first time, they have a chance to start with Lemmy.ml . It’s kind of like how reading used Harry Potter books and talking about the stories indirectly keep it relevant and enrich JK through mercy, licenses, etc…
Without arguing politics, the world is sliding very quickly towards facism and being on guard against it is incredibly important. I’m not buying a laptop and putting money in the pockets of someone who may then donate to or fund facism. None of that applies to a developer of a free open source software whose political ideal world is not rapidly approaching.
So tell me: What laptop will you buy? C’mon, drop a brand name, that is not somehow associated to fascists.