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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I canāt comprehensively express how much I despise what Discord has done to the internet. Support communities are gone from the open web (as in, you canāt use a search engine to search Discord servers, neither can you easily log them to processable text files like you can with IRC), tons of communities are now insulated to a point where you canāt even get in if you want to, because unless youāre large enough or have enough booster points (which, to no oneās surprise, cost money, and only last for a limited time) you canāt generate permanent invite links, so you gotta know someone to get in.
And all of that for a proprietary app that is an accessibility nightmare (for fuckās sake let me change that ugly-ass font to something readable, because God forbid that one of your users might be dyslexic, you absolute munted dickheads), doesnāt listen to any user feedback but is constantly adding absolute bottom-of-the-barrel features, many of which are behind a paywall, and is now adding LLMs to the mix?
Okay, rant over, but I just needed to get that out.
you fucking what now? Iām unwillingly in so many discords but I avoid anything to do with their shitty micropurchase economy so I didnāt know about this. thatās why so many projects have expired discord links in their docs? holy fuck this is unworkable. discord is a shitty landlord rentseeking from so many open source projects with this crap
wow if only any of this happened before and we could learn from it
naturally, at some point (when discord is no longer willing to carry them for free) the communities will move, and find some other way to comms. but what sucks is just how much will be locked up inside those discord instances. fucking walled gardens.
No good and important rant. Another rant we could have, āleftwingers/progressives stop using substack pleaseā.