the official word is that we can now sneer on our choice of an enshittified website with weird vibes or a federated nuthouse running on broken software nobody likes. enjoy!
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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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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All I know is one fundamental thing: between 49 to 100 per cent of you are all fucking nuts.
It seems like most still-active redditors have consulted Ass, My, et al (2024) to conclude any alternative to reddit were abject failures and not worth investigating
No, I’ve done a lot of research here and it may be time
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.
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.
I was mostly referring to comments like yours
I'm...sorry?
For a moment I thought I’d replied in the wrong context, but it looks like I just straight up replied to the wrong thing. My bad either way
Ooooh somehow I replied to your reply to the comment rather than to the comment (originally replying to me)
no worries!
It's getting taken over by new, more compliant mods after it got abandoned by the OG mods, expect a sharp drop in quality of content too.
completely-ineffable was the original mod, hence being first on the mod list, so not really no
Yes, but they were inactive for a long while and all of a sudden they come back acting very different than before.
lmao, are you doing a bit? What the fuck could you possibly know, and why didn’t you check the easily checkable history of the sub’s modlist? The fact that you felt compelled to make this up should, frankly, embarrass you away from offering your comments on anything to do with either the sub or this instance at all
Why are you defending them?
I am not much of a Reddit muckraker. I checked out the posts from the mods I didn't recognise. The longtime mod Son_of_Sophroniscus appears to now be alt-right? Other than that, I still can't make heads or tails of any of it.
I would have thought anyone who regularly posted on the sub in the last 7 years or so would be well aware that there were effectively two active moderators, only one of whom - the founder and head mod /u/completely-ineffable - is still on reddit, and who made the first new post (being “The EA Case for Trump”)
Two further moderators were added shortly before the AI reddit fuckaround which spawned this place, with one of them being David Gerard (who formally spawned this place)
A conclusion I am genuinely surprised to see nobody drawing is obvious: a mod just decided to post something, and turned on comments on for the sake of comments. What’s the deal with trying to figure that out as if it’s some kind of high level management decision?
Yo dawg, slow your roll. Yes, that is the easy explanation. I just wanted more information before jumping to any conclusions. Not all of us (read: I) were deeply familiar with the moderator dynamics nor had a reason to be.
Again either way I’ve made my choice to be here, so to me, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on beyond my own curiosity.
Throwing in that comment about Son_of_Sophroniscus was pretty out there! My roll would be pretty damn slow had you just left that out. But instead we’ve got that, people talking about a “weird/bad vibe”, reading tea leaves all over the shop…
But even in just your own case, it seems like the opposite of not jumping to conclusions to throw in references to old mods going alt right that bear absolutely zero relationship to any of the handful of posts on the “resurrected” sub
Throwing in that comment about Son_of_Sophroniscus was pretty out there!
It seemed relevant to the discussion to look at the moderator list in case there was any information. In this case, the information seemed to be a dead end, which is why I didn't try to speculate beyond a statement of fact.
But instead we’ve got that, people talking about a “weird/bad vibe”, reading tea leaves all over the shop…
People are allowed to comment on the vibe. I think it is completely fair to express frustration at the reopening for the reasons stated in other parts of this thread.
But even in just your own case, it seems like the opposite of not jumping to conclusions to throw in references to old mods going alt right that bear absolutely zero relationship to any of the handful of posts on the “resurrected” sub
I can't believe I have to explain this very ordinary attempt of trying to see what's going on:
- the status quo changes (r/sneerclub comes back online)
- I look for answers (in this case, I ask here for information, and look around the subreddit for information)
- I resist the urge to jump to the easy/obvious answer, and share what little information I had here
Then, as you pointed out in your other comments, it was the obvious answer, which I will happily accept as there is proof.
I just think, and perhaps this is just me, that it is weird, conspiratorial, speech to summarise your research into this question as, paraphrasing, ‘I found out one of the old mods has gone alt right’ and nothing more
It’s also defensive speech to say “people are allowed to comment on the vibe”. I know they’re allowed to comment on the vibe! I think they’re weird for detecting a bad/weird vibe! I think it’s indicative of a conspiratorial framing! There is so little information to go on in these speculations, and literally none of it out of keeping with ordinary goings on at SneerClub, for anyone remotely invested in anything that has ever gone on there
Similarly, I found your speech to frame the question itself conspiratorially, as if the fact that one of the old mods has hints of having gone alt right - despite having nothing to do with any recent posts on the subreddit - is worth mentioning at all, certainly not as the only thing of note that your research turned up
I didn't say: "X mod has gone alt-right! This must be a conspiracy! The moon isn't real!"
I said: "I guess this mod has gone alt-right?"
Seeing and mentioning changes is worth mentioning, even if those changes are unrelated. That's just... basic observation.
Of course, if you want to conspiratorially cast aspersions on everything I'm saying, that's fine. I am going to disengage starting... now.
It’s more that I think the whole discussion is completely head-ass
Nobody who knows anything about the sub should think it’s remotely worth asking beyond “I guess a mod did that”, it’s literally always been this way
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