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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.)
In other news, Discordās jumped on the AI bandwagon, and users are Not Happytm:
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.
looks like tomorrowās Pivot
Small āfunā detail discord has a competitor, revolt. But if you run that at the same time as discord says you are running some old game from ages ago. Which blocks various features which people use discord for (the streaming of games and stuff like that) considering the auto detection fail makes no sense (and it was the first time I ever saw discord fail at detecting a thing) it feels like a bit of a way to make sure revolt doesnt get a lot of traction
E: here is how it looks:
and note it overwrites any other game you are playing at that time.