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Hi, and thanks for making this! Glad to continue sneering.
P.S. “TREACLES” is pretty clever, Emile Torres and Timnit Gebru should have gone with that instead of keeping it in chronological order.
i know right? IT WAS RIGHT THERE
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I lurked at the sneerclub, and now I’m here. Hi all!
hello! \o_
I was an infrequent commenter at the old place (u/yawaster), usually when I got really annoyed about something TESCREAL related. I will probably also be an infrequent commenter here but I still need an occasional outlet for my sneer. Fair play for actually setting up an escape raft from Reddit rather than slinking back, the future of the useable/bearable web depends on people putting their money where their mouth is.
Hi, thanks for letting me in. Fleeing the Redditcalypse.
Hi, I’m a lurker and a freeloader, nice to meet you.
be here or be sneer, i guess
i sort of depend on this community to not go insane working in tech, so i’m happy it’s continuing
i’d restart techtakes here except only a very few read it on reddit either lol
I really like sneering at hn posts and I always wished techtakes had more traffic. I’m not sure how to swing it from a community growth standpoint (at least til we federate) but there’s always room for more sneer communities here
Hi, long time lurker and fan!
Hello. I’ve been a lurker in SneerClub for a year or so.
I’ve never been either a Yudkowsky-style rationalist or worked in the IT industry, but my whole life has been weirdly parallel to this sort of thing. And now that world has nurtured some of the worst A-list villainy of our times.
Yays. I’m still trying to work out precisely how deep the rot goes.
Favourite personal hate sinks include Scott Alexander, Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Steven Pinker, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and the thing that bought Twitter. I have a bad feeling these people are building an intellectual infrastructure for fascism more functional than anything the fascists could manage themselves.
Hi. I’m new to Sneer Club. Only realized what the Reddit community was about a few days ago. I never visited the Less Wrong site back in its era of high activity. I had a friend who told me about it, the Harry Potter fanfic, and I guess the Sequences, but it all seemed like a massively low return on time investment, and the self-important mission to save humanity from Unfriendly AI also sounded kooky and like some kind of self-perpetuating bullshit.
(Aside: As for Slate Star Codex, I probably never read a single piece all the way through. The guy just meanders incessantly, and to this day, I’m amazed any readers could keep doing that to themselves.)
This all brings me some sadness, as I deeply value critical thinking and rationalism (Who tells themselves that they don’t?), and as annoying as that community was, and their diaspora in the effective altruist milieu is today, given that the world seems to be ever more irrational, rationalism-minded people and movements, IMO, are dearly needed.
Lately though I’ve been fascinated by how for all the skills that community worked to instill itself with, it didn’t wind up insulating itself from imploding into its own irrationalism.
Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to join this community and to all the people that put it together and maintain it.
Yudkowsky is Dr. Lucas Elliot from the 1990s MTV cartoon The Head.
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What is the side bar here supposed to mean, like at all?
what do you mean?
Go read it. I have no idea what any of it means. I know what treacle means in the context of desserts, but not as a group of people. NSFW is obviously being changed to mean something specific, but no context is given for the change. The whole side bar is like one inside joke that doesn’t make sense to anyone visiting, but you’ve got a post here welcoming new to say hi with no explanation as to what the community us about. Visitors are given no context, and I can’t tell what any of the posts have to do with each other.
So, I guess, I meant exactly what I asked the first time.
here’s a sparse intro and that’s probably the extent of our customer service, you can pick up the rest by clicking links
i’m vaguely curious as to how you decided to come to someone else’s server and demand they explain themselves to you, is this a thing you do a lot, but only vaguely
I sort by new to look for new communities that are active while lemmy grows. The purpose of the side bar is to let visitors, who potentially would want to engage with your community, what you’re about. Yours doesnt make any sense and you don’t seem to want anyone to understand so fuck you and I’ll just block your community. You must not have anything worth participating with is that’s how you engaged with new people.
The feeling’s mutual, to be clear. Your refund is enclosed.
The purpose of the sidebar is what now
Growth hacking dontchaknow
(growth hacker voice) I’m in…line to exceed Q3 revenue projections
I love when people turn arbitrary social not even norms into moral imperatives
Ah federation, when random drive-bys can comment telling you’re doing it wrong…
it’s everything we hoped for. no wait, not “hoped”.
Or could just yell you what an unwelcoming community you’ve built. You guys belong back on reddit
Didn’t you say you were blocking this instance?
Having rules about what the sidebar should say and how it should look like sounds like what a centralized system like Reddit would enforce, so I’m not sure I’m getting your point.
Anyway, I’m not a mod, I don’t care about Lemmy microdrama, this is just the place people went to when the sub was put into lockdown. So far the results of federation are neutral-to-negative in my opinion.
Lmao why did you invite people in here to vote on your comments
Found this on all, immediately blocking the dumpster fire.
Hi, I’m Mii (u/0xMii on Reddit), software dev and hobby artist. I was a lurker on old SneerClub and TechTakes and only recently found out they moved here. Glad to have it back, because with the current AI hype, the TESCREAL clowns creep in everywhere and I’m trying to maintain my sanity.
They almost got me and pulled me into their cult a few years back, but I luckily got out before it was too late.
Oh hey, did I ever actually post here? No? Whoops.
I blame the ghosts in between the machines.
