i’ve become disappointed with the lobste.rs community lately. it used to be the best technical discussion on the internet, to the point that i would skip the article just to read the comments, they were that good.
but the comments on my latest blog were 100% about packaging stuff, like appearance, linking, etc. it’s weird but hacker news is now where the real conversation happens and lobste.rs became a cesspool
the comments that set me off were about my use of “AI art”. my dude, why are you calling it art? it’s just an image that fills a role. a couple people ganged up to say that use of “AI art” is a signal of low quality, implying that the blog content itself was low quality but without actually addressing anything of substance in it. what a toxic place…
then to top it off, i got yet another comment this morning saying they couldn’t understand the post because there wasn’t any links to the source code
narrator: there were 3 separate links to the source code, an entire file was pasted inline, and there were 2 additional links to other posts explaining the project.
and if it were just this one isolated incident, whatever, but every story i’ve clicked into seems to get similar treatment these days. comments being dominated by topics other than the content of the post.
i post a lot of other people’s thoughtful analyses of technical subjects that are honestly incredible. but if it has anything AI related in the title, or if they can in any way sniff out AI, the entire post will flop or they’ll leave similarly off-topic comments. i’ve been getting angry at AI vegans lately and this is largely it — they’re killing technical discussion, the internet is now infected by their righteous anger, and there’s no room left for building people up
@kellogh not a day goes by where I’m like “can’t we actually have a technical discussion?” It’s not even that I want people to, but so many people seem so focused on getting angry about llm/ai stuff.
Like you don’t like it let it go, my companion in Christ. It’s ok.
@kellogh ironically I’m having the cleanest and most stimulating online search I ever had using kagi and perplexity… actually escaping the ad driven universe
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