Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Dorsey jumping shipās about as good a reason as any to jump to Bluesky, especially considering Twitterās currently haemorrhaging users from the one-two-three punch of the AI training, the crippled blocking and THE ELECTIONtm.
By my guess, the AI training is probably doing the most damage - that oneās prompting artists to bolt for the exits, and if Tumblrās NSFW ban taught me anything, its that if the artists start leaving, theyāre gonna start taking their fans with them.
Yea, the artists are about half the reason for me to be on that site to begin with.
This is pure gut instinct, but I suspect Twitterās probably gonna die sometime during Trumpās term - the banks which funded Muskās takeover consider it their worst deal since the Great Recession, and the rapid exodus of users is gonna further cripple Twitterās ability to attract advertising revenue.
Part of me suspects weāre gonna see Twitter getting banned somewhere during Trumpās term as well, a la Muskās tangle with Brazil.
that article is pure dopamine