this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I mean it showed up in all for me.
read the room
I didn't say anything on the topic and I can't even see the negative ones. I don't really know how many comments you guys usually get off-instance. I'm curious now if people actually care enough to just monitor shit and say dumb things.
this kind of keyword searching (sometimes via a discord bot or similar for coordination purposes) is ridiculously common — old r/SneerClub was an interesting Petri dish for it, cause you’d get accounts that only post about Urbit or on TheMotte every couple months barging into a SneerClub thread for the first time going “uhhh can you prove to me, whoever the fuck I am, that these people are fascists though?” and it was painfully obvious to everyone else what they were trying to do
It seems insane to me, but I used to do some useless shit online so I guess I shouldn't find it so odd.
i meant that the discussion threads will still be present on non-home servers even as the users are blocked from here
it lets them have the last word but in a way that means nobody on awful.systems will have to see it
Ah. I should familiarize myself with instance/moderation specifics better.
the Fediverse is a network of software that doesn't quite talk to each other, but just enough to stoke the drama
The leening tovver oph Bayble: the fedi experience
the fun @self has been having getting Lemmy to talk reliably with Mastodon, Kbin or indeed Lemmy