hi

welcome back to mastodon

we have:

weirdos quietly talking to each other
content warnings so you can let people decide if they want to engage in smut, ragebait, or anything else, and give them a moment to prepare themselves for it
admins who are queer weirdos
a switch that turns off everyone's reposts if you want to just see what the folks you actually follow have to say for themselves
all the custom emojones you want

we don't have:

techbro admins raving about how fast they can "improve" the site with their AI slop machines
any centralized administration
a system designed to replicate all the addictive behavior of pre-Elon twitter

Ideally you would give the new AI product a distinctive name that clearly articulates where it fits in your overall product strategy. Something like "Eyestab" or "Footgun"

Free marketing recommendation: do not give the AI platform all your users are inevitably going to hate a name that is easily confused with the name of the completely unrelated flagship email product that keeps the lights on

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/mozilla-thunderbolt-ai-client

I haven't been able to check an event's official bsky channel for replies and stuff for 4 days because every time I think to do it bsky is down.

What the absolute fuck is this shitshow? That GtS instance running off someone's phone has better uptime than this because by my perception the uptime for bsky is zero.

BlueSky, the vibe coded venture capital website, has significantly worse uptime than the Fediverse - the bulk of which uses software written by a fussy man from Jena, is administered by a cabal of tech weirdos, and runs on scavenged smart watches and old toaster ovens and the like

So someone made this post on Mastodon:
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534

And that led another person to make this site: https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

This feels like some real old school internet stuff. For the younger folks out there, this is the kind of stuff that would pop up all the time on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. No reason for it beyond it being cool and beautiful.

While the animated clock in the link sort of hurts my head, it still is beautiful.

hey, unlike bluesky, my website functions, because I wrote it by hand with no "vibes" involved, and it does exactly one thing (displays information and unwarranted opinions)

http://netizen.club/~wildweasel/

@campuscodi FYI, this thing is almost certainly slop. Also see the nonexistent OAuth8 (??) and other proposed specs, none of which exist.

A hard ban on LLM/"AI" use in a FLOSS project is the moderate stance. I am not a moderate person.

Giving space to these machines is throwing the millions of people whose work they stole, the millions of people who suffer under their crawlers' assault under the bus.

We do not throw each other under the bus in a civil society. I hope you understand this to be the bare minimum.

I do not consent to my likeness being used to create an AI homunculus after my death

I do consent to my voice being used to create an UTAUloid and performing duets with Hatsune Miku

lol no https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

The whole 'Take Back Tech' crap can be summarized thusly:

"We need to take email back from Google!"

Great. This is correct. So what is your plan to deal with spam, distribute your SMTP, and provide IMAP for clients? How are you going to educate people about how email actually works and help them build their own or build out alternatives?

"What?! No! We meant everyone should pay this other company for email!"

we need less anthropic models and more anthropomorphic modeling