The Anti-AI Propaganda of the Day: Claims About AI Efficacy Are Unfalsifiable (Non-Disprovable)
I saw this on Mastodon and almost had a stroke. @davidgerard wrote: “Most of the AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse But SO MANY LOUD ANECDOTES! Trust me my friend, I am the most efficient coder in the land now. […]
Users Are Too Dependent on Centralized Techno-Fascist Corporate Structure to Ever Leave Discord
I’m watching people scatter into countless real-time chat alternatives to Discord after Discord started pulling the age-verification and age-gating card. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/discord-to-roll-out-age-verification-next-month-for-full-access-to-its-platform/ It’s very frustrating because people are entirely missing the point of a community and how social networks work. Real-time platforms and social media networks only work well when a large number of people share […]
ActivityPub Server’s Custom Reply‑Control Extensions Undermine Federation
It seems like Activitbypub developers are extending ActivityPub with optional metadata to fix a lot of its issues, but that is still problematic. Trying to add moderation tools and user control to threads seems to be the ongoing battle. I am fascinated by dumpster fires, so I’ve started looking at the ActivityPub protocol in detail. […]
Decent People Aren’t On Social Media
You know… after working on social media software for the past year—and through all the craziness of the last six years—I don’t think good, prosocial people are on any social media at all. That especially includes the fediverse. You folks on the fediverse are especially insane, and you’re the dangerous type of insane where you […]
Parasocial Relationships Be Wild
All I’ve got to say is social media is fucking wild! People won’t know you. They won’t bother to look through your blog or any other posts you’ve made. They run into one post of yours, dislike it, and create an entire motherfucking fictional story about you where you are the worst example of everything […]
FEP-171b: Conversation Containers Won’t Work
So, I took a look at this: This document specifies a model for managing conversations in ActivityPub network. It is based on the implementation of Conversation Containers in Streams. In this model conversations are represented as collections controlled by a single actor. Such conversations take place within a specific audience and may be moderated. FEP-171b: […]
ActivityPub Can’t Enforce Safety For Vulnerable Groups — and That’s Why the Fediverse Is Fucked
So, I’m a developer. I am following along with and reading this thread: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/116056634129526611 All I can think while reading this is: Well, that’s unfortunate. So, one of the very popular features on Bluesky—also popular on Twitter—is the ability to select who can reply to a post. A major issue in the Fediverse is the […]
Gatekeeping as An Identity
It is insane to me how social media, identity, and prevalent cultures all now seem to revolve around gatekeeping. You signal your identity and form an identity by creating arbitrary rules about who belongs to the in-group, where you attack the out-group. It’s insane how social interactions have devolved into nonstop hostility and constant attacks […]
A Thing I Miss About Old-School Forums Was It Was Harder to Bull Shit People
I don’t miss old-school forums. However, one of the very few norms I do miss about them is that you were required to support your argument with sources. On present social media, sources don’t matter. Evidence doesn’t matter. It only matters if enough people with a large enough pool of influence say it so frequently […]
I am Not Migrating Back To IRC
So, with this whole Discord surveillance age verification situation, I am seeing lots of talk on every social media platform, including Discord ironically, about moving back to IRC. I am not going back to IRC. Though, I do not really have a valid interest in it, because I use Discord just to monitor occult cults […]