[rightbyte]

One could argue that fascist run FOSS projects might be working against your interest as a user.

Fascist is not just a silly label. The political collapse of neoliberalism made a lot of closet fascists emerge and they seem quite common among what was earlier thought of as "techno libertarians". E.g. the VPN provider owner (forgot which) just lately.

If there was too much crying wolf 15 years ago, doesn't really matter now anyways.

[hypfer]

> One could argue that fascist run FOSS projects might be working against your interest as a user.

I guess so, but that's abstract and hard to grasp for most people.

"The guy has clearly lost it and thus is probably not making sensible decisions" otoh is pretty easy to understand, signals effectively the same and side-steps basically all the drama.

[markovs_gun]

> "The guy has clearly lost it and thus is probably not making sensible decisions"

That isn't the problem though. Fascism isn't mental instability, it's an ideology. Someone going off the deep end and making bad decisions does so essentially at random, while someone driven by ideology messes things up in very specific ways. In the case of Fascist ideology, the specific ways they ruin things are specifically intended to harm specific groups of people, so I think the distinction matters. Writing it off as the guy having "lost it" obscures the specific goal he is working towards.

[rightbyte]

Sure. You need to relate to the overton window to not seem like a tinfoil hat alarmist hysteric to normal people. I can agree on that.

It is really hard to keep your cool.

[watwut]

>,If there was too much crying wolf 15 years ago, doesn't really matter now anyways.

There was not. I used to think they are crying wolf, but imo, it turned out they were correct all along.

They were paying attention to what these people were saying and doing. They then concluded these people are fascists. Then a bunch of us, not paying attention crowd, came in accused them of crying wolf.

Maybe, crying wolf is about a boy who sees a wolf, causes commotion and protects the village. Then they dont feel like going in one time, wolfs eats them. But, village just wont admit they were obviously wrong and blames the boy.

[inigyou]

We're still doing that btw

[rightbyte]

Yeah you have a point here.

[inigyou]

It was one of the Mullvad owners.

We should probably ask ourselves why there aren't more Mullvads. I think the answer is twofold - first, developers can't business, and second, running something like that carries massive political risk which that type of person is more willing to shoulder. If one doesn't feel afraid to help found a Nazi party they sure won't be afraid to run a VPN service.