Bearblog is relatively diverse, frankly. It's Medium and Substack that have converged into the slop-nexus that nobody can even pretend to like.

It literally just states not trusting a distro's maintainers from not being influenced by the capital behind it. The politics involved is privacy/ads which I feel fall into the content this board usually covers. The author didn't even reference the founder/funder/maintainers associations with the alt-right, purely focusing on if it is maintaining the privacy ethos typically associated with linux. Which is a grace I personally wouldn't afford that community

It is relevant as the whole point of Omarchy is political - it's DHH's way of trying to un-democratize the open source dev community

Would you like a tissue?

They really could have just led with the “scripts piping curl into bash” and that’s all I need to hear

The usage of the term oligarchy here seems to somewhat fit the OED definition, which refers to a small group in charge of a government or organization, though IMO it deviates from the spirit.