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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

even technical communities use discord now. It's SO fucking over.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

What's driving me mad at the moment is the plague of bands, artists, organizations using linktr.ee instead of a website (or even if they have a website). That's what your website is for!

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

Actual web developers going nuts over Arc browser because of the UI

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I maintain that the fediverse should be viewed as a Usenet clone with easier self-hosting

and therefore it will be the prerogative of one of the big Silicon Valley players to kill it as dead as humanly possible

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

should make an alternative markup and transfer protocol for fediverse. copy the best bits of the web, but take away the baggage so it's easier to build new browser engines

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

for some folks that’s gopher or Gemini, and I can’t say I disagree with that choice. I wonder how fancy one could get with rendering, within the bounds of those protocols?

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

e: I had an extended rant here about how Gemini doesn’t support sessions or posting text, but it seems the Gemini site is a liar and it does sessions more or less exactly how I hoped it did. I’m gonna try some shit, if it works stay tuned for a quick and dirty Gemini interface for our instance

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago

I would love to see that.