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.
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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)
I made a sneer about moving from Twitter to yet another Jack Dorsey social network, but after looking into it he apparently left Bluesky and joined Muskās team instead, because of moderation options. Geez, maybe I should sign up. But creating and keeping track of new accounts to sites is a pain in the aaaaaaassssss.
Bluesky is backed by a cryptocurrency venture capitalists, which makes me nervous: https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a ā but in the same press release they reassure people that theyāre not about to go all NFT (Non-Fun Tokens) just because of their backers.
a lot of projects with crypto ties have been doing this kind of hedge ā they now emphasize data sovereignty instead of web3, decentralization, and other poisoned buzzwords, but they never really answer why crypto assholes would invest in a company if not to do crypto asshole shit when the time is right
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
Oh wow, Dorsey is the exact reason I didnāt want to join it. Now that he jumped ship maybe Iāll make an account finally
Honestly, what could he even be doing at Twitter in its current state? Besides I guess getting that bag before it goes up or down in flames
e: oh god itās a lot worse than just crypto people and Dorsey. Back to procrastinating
According to jwz the current leadership of bsky isnt much better, but I have not looked into it.
bluesky corp are literally coiners, rationalists and Vibecamp-attending neoreactionaries
they tried seeding Bluesky with our very good friends
then the queer shitposters ran the fash the fuck off lol