im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?

Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

perpetuating arch on society is the biggest crime

but also the racism and white supremacy

He doesn’t have “questionable” political views, unless you consider open xenophobia and fascism no more than questionable. He went beyond questionable a while ago and into being truly unpleasant and promoting harmful ideas.

Left-of-center people hate DHH and by extension everything he does and everyone he networks with because “he’s a fascist”.

Hmm.

jakelazaroff.com/…/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-though…

Maayyyyybe because he is?

I mean, if far-left radicals call someone a fascist, that’s debatable. But everyone left of center? Maaaaaybe they’re onto something here?