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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit? (awful.systems)

submitted 3 months ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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I'm seeing two posts from the mods that are sneerworthy content that aren't meta-posts announcing the de-sunsetting of r/sneerclub. I just wanna know what's up.

FWIW, I will stay here and probably won't participate in the subreddit out of laziness.

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[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It seems like many still-active redditors have consulted Ass, My, et al (2024) to conclude any alternative to reddit were abject failures and not worth investigating

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I’ve done a lot of research here and it may be time

[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've never been a frequent commenter in either this community or the subreddit. Though the subreddit moving here was the primary reason I created an account in the fediverse.

I think it's good that the community can just move somewhere else. Though, at the blackout last year, reddit did seize larger subreddits from mods and prevented them at times from linking to fediverse related instances. My opinion is that this sub escaped it because reddit didn't value the size of the subscriber list enough (even though people are commenting here surprised by the reach from /r/sneerclubs still existing followers list)

I think there was a lots of progress made in the last year with the fediverse, but it does make sense to me for why people who are concerned with the viewership of their content would want to move back.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

but it does make sense to me for why people who are concerned with the viewership of their content would want to move back.

Eh, I wonder if that need for attention is the problem with social media in general. I've really enjoyed the lower stakes discussions with experts here. I'm also digging the absence of noise generated by anonymous drive-by weirdos trying to maximize their internet points. Mind you, I think the structure of the fediverse is a net negative, but high-quality moderation on awful is more than accounting for that AND it doesn't have all the built in attention-economy dark pattern stuff, so it's easy to check real quick then put down, which is nice.

If you compare our buttcoin to /r/buttcoin today, for example, the difference is vast and obvious.

It remains to be seen if the New Management at /r/sneerclub can perform at the same level, but based on the news, I can see why someone might want to fire up the ole popcorn machine at this particular point in time.