• @gabowo
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    2 years ago

    Cautiously optimistic. His community and comments tends to be a mixed bag.

    • Marxine
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      292 years ago

      Yeah, I follow him for his privacy and FOSS content, but some of his takes can be quite… controversial, and those attract some questionable folks.

      • Drew Got No Clue
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        162 years ago

        The only video I watched of him was about sudo being “insecure, bloated, useless” and telling people to download a port of doas uploaded by some random user on GitHub… so you’d get 2 surfaces of attacks now, one which is definitely not being fixed as quickly.

        • Marxine
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          72 years ago

          That has to be one of his worst software takes, oof… Hope not too many people decided to follow this ‘advice’

      • @rtxn
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        92 years ago

        I feel like that’s the case with most tech expert channels. I’d even say Mental Outlaw is relatively mild compared to Distrotube (“if you support open-source, you should also support guns”) and especially Luke Smith (holy shit, where do I even begin).

        I watch them because their expertise in FOSS technologies is beyond question, but that is where my trust in them ends.

        • @marlowe221
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          Both Distrotube and Luke Smith are firmly in the category of - I used to watch their videos until I was like “whoa buddy, I thought we were talking about Linux and stuff…”

      • @gabowo
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        172 years ago

        His comment base seems to be populated en masse by hardcore antisemites even off odysee, which he has literally never addresses. His content is cool sometimes, but it’s just… uhhhh. yeah…

        • Limitless_screaming
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          Not only that, but they also love to bring LGBT people into their friendly “discussion”; right now the top comment on MentalOutlaw’s latest video on odysee is someone complaining that he cannot use anything related to the fediverse, because it’s filled with trans people, and the one below it is complaining about defederalisation in the “faggiverse”.

        • @sznio
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          72 years ago

          Classic /g/ YouTuber.

  • @anthoniix
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    I like a lot of his content… but I honestly think he’s far right. He has a video where he says they’re just “teaching marxism” in college (the section of the video is literally labeled “LeftWing Propoganda”), and the reactions he has to certain things make me uh… skeptical.

    In this very video he says he’ll post his content “wherever I’m allowed to”, letting me know he knows how he’s being perceived.

    • @OptimusPrimeRib
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      72 years ago

      I watch his content and its pretty good but you’re right his leanings are a bit questionable. A couple of months ago he made a youtube short about complaining about gas prices and blaming Biden because obviously POTUS controls world wide gas prices.

      • Leclipse
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        32 years ago

        And this makes him far right?

        • Anarch157a
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          62 years ago

          It’s a known tactic of American far right to blame high fuel prices on incumbent Democrat presidents while excusing Republicans with the “market forces” argument.

          They know that the price of gas in US is beyond the president’s control, but they still try to pin it on Democrats anyway.

    • @GustavoM
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      -12 years ago

      …and why exactly are you highlighting his “political preference” as a some sort of problem? This ain’t “Politics.world” as far as I’m concerned.

      • @anthoniix
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        112 years ago

        I don’t care where it is, far right fucks should be called out and kicked out. Bad political ideas are often indicative of other shitty personal traits.

      • @Beyond_5D
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        52 years ago

        Because no matter where you go or what you do, everything has to get political

      • xXemokidforeverXx
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        22 years ago

        Because as long as politics is still fighting for human rights, rather than discussing the best way to implement them, it matters.

        • @GustavoM
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          “There is a place for everything”, and forcing unrelated subjects/situations into everyone “because its a fight for human rights” is not the way to sort/deal with it. But rather, create unnecessary noise and trouble. Or else we’d have folks saving the world by shouting against the wall(s) constantly – which is (pretty much) at the same level of importance than what is being (forcefully) proposed here.

    • Sentient Loom
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      -12 years ago

      I don’t care if he’s “far right.” His content is on point, and he’s respectful.

      • RQG
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        102 years ago

        Yeah I can acknowledge when someone who I mostly disagree with has a point.

        At the same time I don’t want to give someone on the far right any platform or exposure when that in the future could easily be used for rightwing propaganda.

    • @Skullfurious
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      52 years ago

      Eh fuck that pandering loser. Mr. Can fix Twitter master Elon.

    • Hanabie
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      32 years ago

      I don’t like Lex, but it would bring some attention.

      • @Dark_Blade
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        32 years ago

        The right sort of attention matters. It’d be nice to have a larger platform, but the growth’s quality is incredibly important.

  • @Beyond_5D
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    102 years ago

    How do you think I found this website lol

  • Spade Echoes
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    02 years ago

    I wonder how soon before the Fedi-wars begin when servers de-federate from each other and begin to fracture apart into little echo chambers. It would be a shame if The Powers That Be start to power-trip. I believe we are stronger together!