I wish more people talked about the problem of most Linux/FOSS youtubers being fashy, in hard-to-spot ways.
@kim Right but the problem is that this does not seem to be common knowledge among everybody else, even in leftist circles
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@joepie91 I swear, I will look up some small thing, and every thumbnail is full of pepes and wojacks, throwing dogwhistles everywhere.
@TakeV Some of them are unfortunately more subtle than that, trying very hard at the "neutral tech guy" appearance but occasionally letting something super problematic slip as a remark 'on the side'
@TakeV Like, to the point that you pretty much won't be able to 'spot the fash' unless you actually watch the whole video :/
@joepie91 👀 really? I'm not familiar enough with youtubers in general to know how prevalent this is.
@jonah Prevalent enough that finding an unproblematic Linux/FOSS youtuber is the exception rather than the rule, and something you actually actively need to search for :/
@jonah It's a bit less bad with general tech youtubers, but something about the Linux/FOSS-specific crowd is just a real magnet for fash, it seems
@joepie91 I was just about to say, I wonder if this might be more of a problem with the Linux/FOSS community overall. Certainly not that most people involved with Linux/FOSS are problematic, but that it does seem to attract people who are problematic more than other communities tend to.
@jonah That matches my observations, yeah. It's mainly the "evangelists" who are almost universally problematic...
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Some are not so hard to spot. One time I called one out on Twitter and I immediately got brigaded and doxxed until I deleted the tweet and he called off his followers.
@joepie91 i stopped watching any a long time ago for this specific reason lol