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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.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

welcome post is pinned on some remote instances without obvious reason https://awful.systems/post/61

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah that's cos it's still pinned ;-) a year is probably enough I'll unpin it now

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i mean it didn't show up as pinned ever before, at least for me

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

maybe awful.systems talking better to discuss.tchncs.de for obscure reasons? WELCOME TO FEDI WHO KNOWS HOW THE HELL ANY OF THIS WORKS

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just want to highlight that lemmy decided that .de domains were obviously legit, and the instance's own domain does not get the autolink treatment (probably because the inner crate hasn't been updated against IANA roots? who knows)

bless this jank

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

and here is a rare instance where I'll be, like, 30% gracious. modern zoneroots are a fucking trip.

for instance, you may think you have an idea of how many there are. maybe even a guess? go on, have a guess. write it down. then open this link and post your delta

(side thought: this could be a drinking game)

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I guessed 500. That's...that's not how many.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

mastodon and bluesky are conspiracies by Big Janky Offbrand Domain Name

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Wild, isn’t it? And that’s just the raw TLD config, ignoring all the weird ccTLD etc things going on

And not even mentioning the once-again-grift-rich world of altroots…

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that's only desktop, jerboa autolinks both

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Well fuck, now I’m going to have to dig into that, because that sounds like a wonderfully cursed divergent behaviour

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WELCOME TO FEDI WHO KNOWS HOW THE HELL ANY OF THIS WORKS

I’m gonna get this tattooed on my knuckles. yes, all of it

I suspect what’s going on is discuss.tchncs.de probably updated lemmy to the new stable version? I’ve seen a couple of things federate that didn’t before, now that the new version is out

the confusing thing is, we’re not on the new stable version yet

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m gonna get this tattooed on my knuckles. yes, all of it

how many fingers do you have

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

an accident with a teleporter and Midjourney

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

there was a perfectly good abyss/cthulhu joke here and you just DIDN'T

david.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

maybe it was triggered by somebody responding to that post idk. nothing works, but it works reliably enough

i've noticed that federation to kbin got significantly worse