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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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)

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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    To be clear: Cohost did take funding from an anonymous angel, and as a result will not be sharing their source code; quoting from your link:

    Majority control of the cohost source code will be transferred to the person who funded the majority of our operations, as per the terms of the funding documents we signed with them; Colin and I will retain small stakes so we have some input on what happens to it, at their request.

    We are unable to make cohost open source. the source code for cohost was the collateral used for the loan from our funder.

    Somebody paid a very small amount of money to get a cleanroom implementation of Tumblr and did not mind that they would have to build a community and then burn it to the ground in the process. It turns out that angels are not better people than VCs.

    • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Looking at both cohost and tumblr, I don’t think the funder has an asset that’s worth very much.

      • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, having the source to a site (even if it includes stuff like day to day ops, backups etc) isn’t worth much if you don’t have a community. It’s a bit like “open source” LLMs, sure you can run a mudball of python on your computer but the real worth is in ingesting and classifying.