source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/
DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we’re building.
First time I ever heard anything about DHH (the main person that is now behind Omarchy) was when he announced he will stop using Typescript for one of his big projects, because the strict typing system makes it less fun than Javascript.
That argument is on the same level as “seatbelts in cars are bad because they restrict my movement”, i.e. completely inane bullshit no sane person could take seriously.
Somehow this evidently incompetent person somehow stumbled into enough success to now be able to spout hateful political messages without serious repercussions.
Usually when people start spouting hateful messages I lose respect for them, but there was nothing to lose in this case.
fuckin… why…
Fascists, that’s why.
I start to believe that he paid the YouTubers money in order for them to do these videos listed on the website.
Even politics aside, I don’t understand why all these companies are donating to Omarchy. It doesn’t actually offer anything worth thinking about… which makes me think it’s about the politics.
A. many of the donors are friends of DHH B. the entire “distro” is full to the brim with AI. it’s built completely via AI. so these people are looking for an ROI on it. they want this to be THE consumer AI OS. and I guarantee you it won’t be free for much longer.
Dude says xenophobic and racist shit, thats all they need to hear in 2026.
On a real note though this looks like corporations trying to cash in on the up and coming Linux rise, but this explicitly does not work like that
It’s in the blurb. Pretty sure when he says “agentic OS”, he wants it to be the default OS for consumer AI crap. All you have to do these days is just hint at AI and companies will fall over themselves to throw money at you.
I think I need to start a distro at this point. See if I can get a bunch of enterprise donators… Though I suspect I’m not white supremacist enough for them. But I AM a white male so if I just shut the fuck up maybe they’ll give me money anyways hoping that perhaps I share their views?
you can do it way more easy than DHH did. Just build a NixOS configuration and you’re done. hell NixOS will even build it to an ISO for you. you can literally have it do all the things Omarchy does for a fraction of the size.
I love this Omarchy thing: it’s helping separate the wheat from the chaff.
I only wished there was a site that listed all the “bad” guys… they seem to be way more numerous than I imagined.
The omarchy website lists them.
this is a good start: https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
WTF is this list?
ThePrimeagen: Popular Twitch streamer and YouTube personality whose content isn’t all that weird, but who is publicly associated with a bunch of weirdos in this list. He’s a speaker at Omacon 2026, David Heinemeier Hansson’s conference for fashy weirdos,[source] and a donor to Andreas Kling’s Ladybird,[source] and otherwise maintains associations with and financially supports people in a little network of weirdos.
I don’t consider ThePrimeagen a weird guy. This does more harm than being useful. Therefore I cannot trust this list. I don’t like public lists of shame anyway, as this encourages witch hunting of people he personally does not like.
I watched him for a while. And I’d say 95% of the tims, it’s fine. Chitchat, banter, technical things. But then the remaining 5% of the time, there’s suddenly a weird off the cuff remark, something that really seems like a dogwhistle, or just otherwise strange turn of phrase that makes me go huh? and rewind.
I know that’s not a lot individually, but over time it added up enough that I stopped watching.
My problem with such a list is, that you can always find ans justify a reason to put it here. Most people reading these lists aren’t familiar and have no personal experience and opinion, but will take his word for. If you stopped watching him because of reasons, its your opinion and that is valid. I am not against that! But people looking at these lists will avoid them and think they are bad persons. Yes in some cases they probably are, but the viewer cannot know (that’s why they look into these lists).
Tell me one person who is not weird.
Most of the time i see clips of him it’s some sort of rage baiting or shit stirring, which may not be weird, but is shitty and not worth my time. The thing you quoted also says he’s not weird directly but is associated with weird people 🤷♀️
Do you watch and follow him? If not, then off course all you see controversial stuff, because that is what makes it popular. And I do not consider his content to be rage baiting and shit stirring, maybe when making jokes. So taking it out of context could seem to be like that. I follow two channels of Primeagen and watch him for years and cannot agree with your statement. Also every person is associated with weird people. This list is one of the worst lists to put people into shame or as warning to he public, nobody should do that! This list needs to be taken down quickly before it does more harm. Because anyone reading it comes to conclusions like you.
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Several of those are fairly borderline. You would think Drew Devault of all people would understand that its ok to not be 100% squeaky clean.
I’m not saying that list doesn’t include a lot of creeps, but maybe he shouldn’t have included “donated to an organisation that includes someone who is antagonistic” and “is an average American Christian” along with the “fervent defender of paedophilia”.
Are you baiting me?
Should Drew himself be on that list? Given: https://dmpwn.info/
that list is depressing. I just unfollowed 3 of them. Thank you.
Fuck giving money to xenophobes. Especially ones who can’t code for shit and don’t understand basic Linux security.
Well, looks like I’m migrating my projects this weekend.
Same. Someone on Mastodon gave praises to https://upcloud.com/. They’re also on Masto @upcloud@glitchy.upcloud.world
Their VPS plans look decent: https://upcloud.com/global/products/cloud-servers/#plans
What’s up with all the bald men though?
Edit: nvm, only half of them are bald.
As a bald man myself, I can not speak to their specific Baldman tribe.
Also bald. I think growing a beard at this time is necessary to avoid the Lex Luther, Jeff Bezos rich evil billionare look.
Agreed. Then dye it some bright color to really distance yourself from the villain look
Glad I deleted my account a few days ago.
Whoops. Looks like I’m moving the last of my customers away from them.
I just left this comment, might be an alternative for you: https://programming.dev/comment/25901788
This isn’t programming related but i want the omarchy fundraiser person helping fund my project. Serriously i only need like 1%
Say some racist things and you will get money. That’s how it works.
Step 1 : fork open source project.
Step 2 : customise it a little bit.
Step 3 : network with racists and reinforce their opinions
Step 4 : profit
easy. get Claude Code to build you a quickshell plugin for their plugin store and then gloat about it on youtube and twitter. that’s how everyone else is doing it.
agentic
How about no
Ugh.
