Feel like you want to sneer about something but you donā€™t quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota here and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    6Ā·
    9 months ago

    Re: Lemmy, some dude (ofc) is trying to start a new ā€œdecentralizedā€ Wikipedia, and he touts as a merit that he created Lemmy:

    I have worked on Lemmy for the past four years, bringing it from a prototype to a fully functional Reddit alternative.

    Some would say this is damning with faint praise, others would see it as a warning.

    (https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,_the_federated_Wikipedia_Alternative@ibis.wiki)

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        7Ā·
        9 months ago

        I canā€™t wait to see what happens as these people slowly learn the consensus problem in this domain

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      6Ā·
      9 months ago

      These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

      (quickly web-searches for that name)

      Oh, she writes for Russia Today.

      Authors and public figures in fields as diverse as Complementary and Alternative Medicine and progressive politics (including Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, Gary Null, John Pilger, and George Galloway) have complained of persistent negative coverage on Wikipedia despite the siteā€™s vaunted neutrality and the promise that ā€œBiographies of Living Personsā€ are held to the highest standard.

      (snerk) Oh, no, Deepak Chopra and Rupert Sheldrake are upset. I can feel the quantum disruption in the morphogenetic field.

      • Charlie Stross@wandering.shop
        5Ā·
        9 months ago

        @blakestacey Oh dear, George Galloway complaining about negative coverage, how sad, much hardship. (Galloway is an utter shit.) John Pilger had credibility for a critique of US/western foreign policy, but the rest of the listed folks are just cranks.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
        3Ā·
        9 months ago

        now, you may have heard unfortunate rumours that the lemmy devs are a pair of tankies

        this is of course shitlib lies spread by revisionists,