<![CDATA[Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo.]]>Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo.

Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/6d9aecc3-d440-472b-b1e9-2c6d9d8df887/digital-ocean-ended-their-50-month-sponsorship-of-gnome-and-flathub-and-went-radio-silent-on-css-tricks-right-around-the-time-they-found-a-spare-three-million-dollars-to-burn-on-sponsoring-a-high-profile-racist-s-dotfiles-repo.RSS for NodeMon, 21 Sep 2026 09:40:09 GMTMon, 14 Sep 2026 18:04:44 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:09:00 GMT]]>@Wilto what are we using instead? (Bonus points for Canadian run suggestions)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/meejah/statuses/117278516233233371https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/meejah/statuses/117278516233233371Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:09:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:00:03 GMT]]>@Wilto @bkardell The Grifter strikes again!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/davatron5000/statuses/117276357667758227https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/davatron5000/statuses/117276357667758227Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:00:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:06:59 GMT]]>@chris The world just keeps on inventing new amounts of angry for me to be.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275913043111526https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275913043111526Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:06:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:06:35 GMT]]>@bkardell @davatron5000 so long suckers retirement awaits me

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275911474325671https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275911474325671Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:06:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:02:06 GMT]]>@Wilto Meanwhile $3 million to DHH, a guy worth $50 million.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nutmeg.social/users/chris/statuses/117275893843529844https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nutmeg.social/users/chris/statuses/117275893843529844Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:02:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:59:31 GMT]]>@Wilto @davatron5000 sent!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cafe/users/bkardell/statuses/117275883697420290https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cafe/users/bkardell/statuses/117275883697420290Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:59:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:59:06 GMT]]>@bkardell @davatron5000 alright both of you go ahead and send me some money and I'll see what I can do

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275882062230394https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275882062230394Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:59:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:58:42 GMT]]>@davatron5000 Operators are standing by!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275880467416093https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275880467416093Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:58:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:58:36 GMT]]>@davatron5000 @Wilto I will give $80

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cafe/users/bkardell/statuses/117275880089007583https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cafe/users/bkardell/statuses/117275880089007583Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:58:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:57:27 GMT]]>@Wilto I will give them $79.99 for the website if they don't want it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/davatron5000/statuses/117275875546181434https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/davatron5000/statuses/117275875546181434Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:57:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:56:14 GMT]]>If Digital Ocean has decided that CSS-Tricks is — in the most generous weasel-coded terms I can muster — no longer a value-add given their current goals, and they don’t want the potential backlash from shuttering it hanging around their necks anymore, well, they have emails awaiting their responses.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275870779505449https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117275870779505449Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:56:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:28:00 GMT]]>@sloshy
@Wilto I was also curious, apparently it's barthalion@treehouse.systems here on mastodon (don't want to tag)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116699728872320458/statuses/117275759794632710https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116699728872320458/statuses/117275759794632710Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:28:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:03:45 GMT]]>@Wilto /gen what’s the source for ending the donation with gnome and flatpak? Not too thrilled about them donating to a fascist’s dotfiles but they never seemed to appear on either projects’ donors page

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tilde.zone/users/sloshy/statuses/117272597314183437https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tilde.zone/users/sloshy/statuses/117272597314183437Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:03:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:17:39 GMT]]>@Wilto 😬

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/csilverman/statuses/117270764572158683https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/csilverman/statuses/117270764572158683Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:17:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:13:41 GMT]]>@Wilto Oof. Pretty telling indeed. That's gonna be a Big Yikes from me.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/chriskirknielsen/statuses/117270748979675084https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/chriskirknielsen/statuses/117270748979675084Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:13:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. on Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:05:32 GMT]]>I would have tagged them here, but just in case there was any doubt left as to the nature of the company’s boot-licking aspirations:

https://bsky.app/profile/digitalocean.com/post/3miukpxmyn625

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117270716916731516https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://front-end.social/users/Wilto/statuses/117270716916731516Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:05:32 GMT