Also the hivemind seems to have taken against tweetsXeets, a stunning reversal from last year when St. Elon was gonna usher in a new Dawn of civilized discourse.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    yeah similar. I only skim the link source as a semi-aggregator of stuff (because it’s where a lot of people will share shit), but even that needs significant filtering.

    otherwise a strict policy of Don’t Read The Comments

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Allow me to sum up my relationship with the orange site with a lightly edited quote of Dennis Ritchie from The UNIX-HATERS Handbook:

      >Here is my metaphor: your book website is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some interest to computerniks like me. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy silicon valley chauvinism.