Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)
thereās also overpush, which is meant as a self-hostable drop-in replacement for pushover and does not use ai afaict.
Ooh, thatās really cool. Also, very sobering section on the various e2e methods that are a pretty thorough indictment of all the chat systems out there.
That didnāt really surprise me tbh, I follow a blog that is ostensibly meant to be a furry blog but gets repeatedly sidetracked into cryptographic stuff, and the conclusion for anything e2ee is essentially that only signal is worth using if you are looking for actual e2ee. But yeah, encryption is generally pretty bad on this kinda thing.
Yeah, soatok has been doing really good work there. Itās disappointing that the matrix folks donāt seem to take it seriously.