Cautiously optimistic. His community and comments tends to be a mixed bag.
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.
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.
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…”
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.
That has to be one of his worst software takes, oof… Hope not too many people decided to follow this ‘advice’
He’s a very based rss reader. Just don’t checkout his followers comments on odysee.
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…
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”.
What would be really cool is Lex Fridman interviewing one of the Lemmy devs
How do you think I found this website lol
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.
I don’t care if he’s “far right.” His content is on point, and he’s respectful.
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.
…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.
Because no matter where you go or what you do, everything has to get political
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.
Because as long as politics is still fighting for human rights, rather than discussing the best way to implement them, it matters.
“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.
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.
And this makes him far right?
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.
Thats so cooooool
I agree with mental outlaw. Admins should not ban TheDonald communities especially if they broke no rules. Let users decide what content to see not admins. Within reason.
