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so uh, now that he’s platforming DHH on his podcast, your reminder that brodie robertson is a weird bigoted channer
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@kyle_pegasus I have honestly never watched one of his videos, his thumbnails never appealed to me and the topics looked like puffed-up crap I’d learn more about from fedi in fewer words
@zzt @kyle_pegasus i watched one so you don't have to ever, it's 20 minutes of reading maiing list posts while shouting in Australian
@kyle_pegasus @zzt Linux news, mainly
anyway that's yet another unsub 
can this shit please *stop*
@techokami @zzt well I mean, he's certainly shouting about things he's read about linux with some funko pops behind him. but i can read that myself, without the shouting mum's house bedroom man
@kyle_pegasus @techokami @zzt yeah basically Brodie's niche is 20 minutes deep dives into reading out mailing list posts on a topic while shouting
between DHH, brodie, that fucking ex-googler Linux is Best guy doing an anti-Palestine disinformation campaign on fedi, lunduke, liam of gamingonlinux, linus torvalds himself… it really feels like a lot of the loudest influencers and personalities in this space are mask-off assholes up to no good, doesn’t it? it really feels like they’re doing that thing fascists do where they normalize casually doing horrid shit in a space.
@zzt There's a strong libertarian element in FOSS, which isn't surprising. Anti-institution, don't tread on me types. There is often overlap there with right-wing ideologies, at least here in the US.
@thestrangelet @zzt also, lets not forget, the YouTube algorithm is optimized to platform closeted (and overtly) fascist “libertarian” white dudes, to make them the most succesful YouTubers. I’ve lost count how many succesful tech YouTubers turned out to be fascist.
- Luke Smith
- Jeff Geerling
- Bryan Lunduke
- now Brodie Robertson
I can think of at least 3 others who appeared on my YouTube front page every day for months, who’s names I have forgotten (thankfully) who I can’t find because search engines are all broken now.
At this point, if you have become successful on YouTube, I treat you as suspect, because there is something about you that makes The Algorithm like you.
@zzt if i pivot to linux i'm taking you with me zzt i'm warning you
@davidgerard oh thank fuck, you’re saying I can sustain myself on complaining about Linux? deal
@zzt @davidgerard I'm about to pivot to the fucking beach I swear.
@zzt Wait, what did Liam do? Should I even ask?
@davidgerard @piepants yep! I called liam (of gamingonlinux, not the other one) out for a real bad LLM take that he decided to double down on. for some reason this made him delete his account and start purging posts, which drew a bunch of attention to his old posts. and of course people found and took screenshots of a bunch of bigoted shit he’d said in the past.
@zzt what is it that Brodie actually does? there was a period where all youtube wanted to show me was him shouting at his microphone in his bedroom?