The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
In the past few months alone I’ve seen:
- A birthrate obsessed substacker who wants to ban car seats to increase minivan sales
- Two people off HN who went on thinly race-iq rants only to say that race and iq doesn’t even matter because ChatGPT is going to lift the non-whites into sapience and end racism. Neither substacker seemed to know each other, yet came to the same ridiculous conclusion.
- A former femboy, turned reply-guy who tweets about how the hidden figures woman was actually white like once a week
- Another xitter user who’s made 10 posts a day insisting that Ethiopians are actually mostly white, which is why they had castle and shit
And honestly there’s a lot more of these guys that are crazy than they are racist; I just so happened to remember the most offensive posters. Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
you don’t even have to self host in order for it to work
some things will actually work better with a matrix server that isn’t hosted here, in particular outage announcements and disaster continuity. plus I’ve hosted matrix before and I remember it takes up a fuckton of storage, which our current deployment can’t really sustain without expansion
what’s a good matrix homeserver these days?
i’m using tchncs.de and it Mostly Works™ the only recurring issues being with telegram and signal bridges
Notably there’s little to none crypto spammers and conspiracy weirdos there