Weird Little Guys of FOSS

Known for: nostr stuff

Alex is simply a salient fig successful the nostr community, and an antagonist connected FOSS societal media platforms generally. He developed the package utilized for Truth Social, Donald Trump’s fediverse thing,[source] and was banned from the Mastodon lawsuit he utilized backmost successful 2023 for being openly transphobic.[source][source] Alex is financially supported by Jack Dorsey via the “andOtherStuff” collective.[source]

This photograph of him connected the correct is prominently displayed connected his individual website.

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: SerenityOS, Ladybird

Alias: AwesomeKling

Andreas is the laminitis of SerenityOS and the Ladybird web browser. He posted successful support of Charlie Kirk aft his assassination,[source] gets triggered by the building “punch nazis”,[source] and the thought of utilizing gender-neutral pronouns successful documentation.[source] Andreas boosted David Heinemeier Hansson’s tweets connected DEI and the achromatic supremacist “white replacement” theory,[source] and expressed solidarity pinch David’s persecution for his “banal, mainstream” positions, positions which include, for example, the forced expulsion of non-white group from Europe.[source]

Ladybird and Andreas person received sponsorships from FUTO, Cloudflare, Shopify and 37signals (i.e. David Heinemeier Hansson), Proton, Jetbrains, Sourcegraph, and others.[source]

Added September 01, 2026

Known for: Proton laminitis (ProtonMail, Proton VPN, etc)

Proton claims to beryllium politically neutral, but successful early 2025 Andy praised the Republican statement connected X,[source] and Proton issued an “official response” connected Mastodon and Reddit (later deleted arsenic “not really official”) re-enforcing that Proton and/or Andy threw their chapeau successful pinch Trump and the Republican party.[source]

Proton financially supports Andreas Kling.

Added September 04, 2026

Known for: Mozilla co-founder, Brave browser, creator of JavaScript

Brendan sewage a batch of flack respective years ago, resigning arsenic Mozilla CEO, aft he donated a fewer 1000 dollars to support California’s Proposition 8, an inaugural that would person banned same-sex matrimony successful California.[source]

After Mozilla, he moved connected to co-found and lead arsenic CEO the Brave Browser, which he utilized to push his ain cryptocurrency micro-payments system.[source] He utilized Brave to support the dislike website Kiwi Farms, which has been alleged to person instigated respective suicides arsenic a consequence of their harassment, moving pinch their tract admins to airs Brave arsenic a safe and unafraid intends for their members to entree the tract and behaviour their harassment.[source] Kiwi Farms besides took advantage of Brave’s crypto strategy for funding, which was brought to Eich’s attraction and ne'er corrected.[source]

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: The Lunduke Journal, “Linux Sucks”

Bryan is simply a prolific YouTube personality, maintains a individual blog, and often tweets connected his X account, utilizing each of these platforms to push “anti-woke” ideas and conspiracy theories, and harass anyone he views arsenic excessively progressive, trans, female, aliases black. Big instrumentality of RedHat DEI conspiracy theories.

Has a immense problem pinch transgender group and goes retired of his measurement to harass them, misgender them, deadname them, the works.

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: Urbit

Alias: moldbug

Curtis is the laminitis and on-again-off-again leader of the Urbit networking protocol project. He is besides considered 1 of the founders of the mainstream neo-reactionary “dark enlightenment” activity which explicitly and deliberately intends to undermine populist successful Western countries.

Curtis’s activity has group the playbook for the American Republican statement and a number of techno-fascists. Curtis is an subordinate of J.D. Vance, who cites him arsenic an power and arguably has Curtis to thank, successful part, for his position arsenic Vice President.[source] Peter Thiel, a cardinal fig successful the right-wing mass-surveillance institution Palantir, known for enabling wide deportations successful the United States, was besides influenced by Curtis.[source]

Curtis is an subordinate of Eron Wolf.[source]

Added September 02, 2026

Known for: Mullvad VPN (co-founder, co-owner)

Daniel is the co-founder of Mullvad VPN, alongside Fredrik Strömberg. In June 2026, Daniel donated 5M Swedish Krona (~$500,000 USD) to the populist anti-immigration Örebro Party,[source] saying “it’s sad that it’s needed”. The statement supports the taste cleansing of non-white group from Sweden, and Daniel’s aid represented, astatine the time, 72% of the party’s revenue. Daniel cited migration arsenic a motivating facet for his donation.

Added September 01, 2026

Known for: Popular cryptographic algorithms, e.g. Salsa20, ed25519; qmail, djbdns

Alias: djb

Daniel is an well-known and influential cryptographer and erstwhile visiting professor astatine TU/Eindhoven,[source] wherever he has worked pinch his wife, Tanja Lange, the chair of the coding mentation and cryptology group there.[source]

Daniel and Tanja are associates of Jacob Appelbaum and served arsenic his PhD advisors.[source][source] One of the students nether Bernstein and Lange astatine TU/e, Henry de Valence, resigned from their PhD programme successful 2016 citing patterns of harassment, abuse, and bullying astatine the hands of Jacob, Daniel, and Tanja.[source]

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: Ruby connected Rails, Omarchy (founder); 37signals (CTO); Shopify (Board member)

Alias: DHH

David is simply a multi-millionare who costs and boosts the “dark enlightenment” successful FOSS. His Linux distribution, Omarchy, is simply a loose postulation of vibe-coded scripts connected apical Arch Linux and a conveyance for soliciting investments from ample companies (e.g. Cloudflare, Framework, Dell, Block (Jack Dorsey), Dropbox, 1password)[source][source] to finance the projects of his weird small friends.

He wrote a blog post, “As I retrieve London”,[source] successful which he uses galore racist, fascist, and ethno-nationalist dog-whistles while calling for the taste cleansing via forced removal of non-white group from the UK and different countries. Another of David’s posts, “Wolves, sheep, and gypsies”[source] compares Roma group to wolves and again calls for an taste cleansing.

The Ruby connected Rails activity stood by David successful spite of galore calls for his removal from positions of powerfulness by members of the community.[source][source]

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: Xlibre (founder)

Alias: metux

Enrico is the laminitis of the Xlibre project, a fork of Xorg. Took the Wayland/RedHat DEI conspiracy mentation to its earthy conclusion by making an unwoke fork of the deprecated Xserver task to support it alive. The codification of behaviour is conscionable “404” successful a matter file, and the README has been cleaned up but was initially mostly conscionable a rant astir the RedHat DEI big-tech conspiracy theory.[source]

I dug up an email from Enrico backmost successful 2018 wherever he goes connected an incomprehensible rant blaming World War II connected the allies, flirting pinch Holocaust denial and stating that Churchill should person been the first 1 prosecuted astatine Nuremberg.[source]

The Xlibre organization is radically inclusive, which is to say, a immense circlejerk of unfastened Nazis and bigots pinch nary moderation.

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: Open Source Initiative (disgraced co-founder); “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”

Alias: esr

Eric is simply a creepy weird feline who writes racist, homophobic, and misogynist screeds everyplace he can. His uses his blog, “Armed and Dangerous; Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s elemental pleasures…”, to advocator for weird right-wing politics, specified arsenic strident support for Kyle Rittenhouse[source] and threatening to sprout communists.[source] He said cheery men deserved to get AIDS because of “unfettered promiscuity”,[source] quotes racist talking points astir constabulary violence,[source] and says organizations that effort to get women much progressive successful FOSS are trying to entrap men pinch rape accusations.[source] See besides Eric’s effort connected “Preventing visceral racism”.[source]

Eric sewage kicked retired of the OSI mailing lists for being a immense asshole backmost successful 2020.[source]

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: FUTO

Eron is the modestly able laminitis of FUTO, an statement that costs package projects. He doesn’t for illustration the Open Source Definition[source] and cites different weird small guys for illustration Bryan Lunduke and Eric S. Raymond to make his case. Eron is friends pinch Curtis Yarvin, a notable techno-fascist and power connected JD Vance, and invited Curtis onto FUTO’s level for an question and reply successful 2023.[source]

Associate of Louis Rossmann.

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: SimpleX chat

Evgeny is simply a protagonist of the far-right populust Reform UK party, and the Donald Trump administration. In 2024, he donated to the Reform UK statement connected behalf of SimpleX chat,[source] and boosted Tommy Robinson, a far-right, anti-Islam activistic and convicted convulsive criminal, and his support of convulsive far-right riots successful the UK.[source]

On X, Evgeny often boosts far-right politicians, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, ambiance alteration denial, and transphobic and different bigoted rhetoric.[source][source]

SimpleX has received a $1M aid from Jack Dorsey[source] successful the aftermath of changes to Telegram that promised to ace down connected far-right extremism connected the app.

Added September 04, 2026

Known for: nostr maintainer

Reclusive lead developer of the nostr protocol/social media thing,[source] and a devotee of the precocious Brazilian far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho.[source] Sponsored by Jack Dorsey.[source]

Added September 01, 2026

Known for: Vercel, Next.js

Guillermo is the laminitis and CEO of Vercel, a institution weighted astatine $9.3 billion,[source] and is pictured present during a gathering pinch wanted warfare criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom he wished “greatness for Israel”.[source]

Guillermo is simply a nationalist protagonist of X, Elon Musk’s far-right bastardization of Twitter,[source] and often boosts Musk’s posts there.[source]

Added September 02, 2026

Known for: Twitter (co-founder); Block, Inc (Square, Cash App, etc); nostr financial backer

Jack is the billionaire financial protagonist of nostr, and donated $10M to the nostr foundation, of which Alex Gleason is simply a member, and 14 BTC to “Fiatjaf” directly.[source]

Jack joined the BlueSky committee of board successful 2022, earlier pivoting to nostr, leaving complete the truth that Bluesky wanted to instrumentality centralized moderation tools.[source] One of the main trading points of nostr is “censorship resistance”, which makes it peculiarly charismatic for weirdos for illustration those connected this database who want location to opportunity weird crap without getting moderated for it.

Jack besides financially supports Andreas Kling, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Evgeny Poberezkin.

He chickened retired of doing a keynote astatine FOSDEM successful 2025 erstwhile I organized a protestation action against his beingness there.[source]

Added September 01, 2026

Known for: Tor (former contributor), Freedom of the Press Foundation (former TAB member)

Alias: io, ioerror

Jacob is simply a cryptography and machine information interrogator and disgraced ex-member of the Tor project. In 2016 10 group came guardant to coming superior accusations of intersexual harassment, assault, and rape,[source] yet starring to his removal from the Tor project,[source] Debian,[source] and the hackerspace he co-founded, Noisebridge.[source]

He still useful softly and mostly retired of the nationalist position astatine TU/Eindhoven[source] and has been rumoured to popular up astatine events astir Berlin successful caller years. He is presently moving connected the Vula web encryption scheme,[source] which is funded by NLnet.[source]

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: JeffGeerling YouTube channel, blogger

Jeff hosts a reasonably successful YouTube transmission wherever he often posts videos astir FOSS, unfastened hardware, and Linux, and a blog pinch supplementary materials.

Jeff is simply a Catholic anti-abortion and anti-contraception advocate, and has written respective blog posts connected the taxable betwixt 2011 and 2013.[source] Popular YouTube transmission Practical Engineering aimed to collaborate pinch him successful 2025, but retracted his support aft the organization pointed retired Jeff’s politics.[source] Jeff was informed of the logic why Practical Engineering did not wish to collaborate pinch him, but has not issued immoderate apologies aliases retractions for his earlier statements.

Jeff did delete 2 blog posts pursuing the call-out, 1 wherever he re-iterated his anti-abortion position successful the cases of rape and incest,[source] and different wherever he based on that a “genetic disposition to homosexuality” was not “okay”.[source]

Added September 07, 2026

Known for: NeoVim maintainer

The NeoVim website quoted an endorsement from David Heinemeier Hansson until August of 2026. When an rumor was opened connected GitHub to kick astir utilizing an endorsement from a facsist,[source] Justin had a spot of a clang out, yet removing the quote and ending the chat by calling those who protested “a drive-by mob, swirling from 1 mindless vomit-party to another, for illustration the pacific garbage patch”.

Justin had a YouTube playlist[source] afloat of right-wing propaganda up until the DHH statement connected GitHub, including sources from Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel. One of Justin’s co-maintainers for NeoVim, TJ DeVries, besides said astatine David’s Omacon successful 2026.[source]

Fun fact: during the GitHub debacle complete the DHH quote, Justin said “I don’t attraction if I extremity up connected Drew’s list”, which inspired maine to make this database successful the first place.

Added September 07, 2026

Known for: suckless.org

Laslo is the first chair of the suckless committee of directors, alongside Jan Klemkow and Anselm R Garbe. He, and galore members of suckless, are covert Neo-Nazis. Laslo’s laptop is named “wolfsschanze”, aft 1 of the Nazi’s World War II subject headquarters.[source] In their 2017 hackathon, hosted successful Germany and attended mostly by Germans, they hosted a torchlit march, which successful Germany is of people historically coded arsenic a Nazi action.[source][source] Laslo posted connected Lobsters astir it astatine immoderate length, calling the backlash to this arena “cultural marxism” (a communal dog-whistle for “the Jews”).[source]

They each do a decent occupation of maintaining plausible deniability, but it falls isolated connected person inspection.

Added September 04, 2026

Known for: Louis Rossmann YouTube channel, FUTO, correct to repair

Alias: larossmann

Louis is simply a salient correct to repair activistic who runs a celebrated YouTube transmission connected the subject. He worked pinch FUTO, Eron Wolf, from August 2022 to February 2025, and his right-to-repair non-profit received a $1M aid from Wolf.[source][source]

On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video astir openly transgender Colorado authorities typical Brianna Titone, and successful the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position connected transgender issues, which tin beryllium paraphrased arsenic “I deliberation transgender women are men but I’m consenting to place it if we person communal cause”.[source]

Louis has been a regular poster connected the dislike and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting location from 2023 to the coming nether the username “larossmann”.

Added September 02, 2026

Known for: ThePrimeagen Twitch/YouTube accounts

Alias: ThePrimeagen

Popular Twitch streamer and YouTube characteristic whose contented isn’t each that weird, but who is publically associated pinch a bunch of weirdos successful this list. He’s a speaker astatine Omacon 2026, David Heinemeier Hansson’s convention for fashy weirdos,[source] and a philanthropist to Andreas Kling’s Ladybird,[source] and different maintains associations pinch and financially supports group successful a small web of weirdos.

Added August 31, 2026

Known for: Hyprland

Alias: Vaxry

Rafał Kucharski is the “edgy” laminitis and maintainer of the Hyprland Wayland compositor. He oversees a toxic organization and participates successful dislike and bigotry, peculiarly towards LGBTQ+ folks.[source] Downplayed an incident wherever moderators of his Discord server changed the pronouns of a trans personification to deliberately misgender them, saying “on the Internet, let’s beryllium real, [he] is the default”.[source]

Got banned from freedesktop.org aft losing his crap erstwhile they privately warned him not to beryllium a toxic naughty successful their organization spaces.[source] Hates codes of behaviour and inclusivity successful FOSS.[source]

Funded by Framework,[source] speaker astatine David Heinemeier Hansson’s Omacon 2026.[source]

Added September 01, 2026

Known for:Software Foundation, GNU, GCC

Alias: rms

Richard is the laminitis of theSoftware Foundation and 1 of the astir important figures successful getting this full point disconnected of the ground. Also the taxable of reliable rumors of harassing a batch of women complete the years, and often writes connected his website successful defense of rapists, intersexual harassment, intersexual exploitation of minors, distribution of kid intersexual maltreatment material, and moreover bestiality and necrophilia. Stallman’s behaviour is extensively covered successful The Stallman Report.[source]

Added September 02, 2026

Known for: Shopify (co-founder & CEO), Ruby connected Rails (core team)

Tobias is simply a billionaire and individual friend of David Heinemeier Hansson, and raced arsenic portion of his squad for Era Motorsport.[source] He has a 40% controlling liking successful Shopify.[source]

Tobias defended Shopify’s prime to level (and truthful straight financially support) far-right tabloid Breitbart successful 2017,[source] citing state of reside and resisting the thought of implementing a “moral code” for Shopify clients. He besides endorsed a connection to portion retirees of voting authorities and make votes proportional to wealth.[source]

Added September 04, 2026

Known for: cock.li

Vincent is the proprietor of the “cock.li” email provider, which provides intentionally “edgy” email addresses to its users and targets bigots and extremists who would beryllium marginalized elsewhere pinch its free reside absolutist principles. The domain names disposable see options specified arsenic “@n*gge.rs” and “@rape.lol”, arsenic good arsenic a number of much covert domain names specified arsenic “@airmail.cc” which are much apt to alert nether the radar.

Added September 04, 2026