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/
Mat “Wilto” Marquis
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