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Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderation (awful.systems)
submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/servernews@awful.systems
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We are defederating awful.systems from:

because it's extremely anarchist to use the chatbot as your moderator (no no it's totally human in the loop) and post corporate DARVO-filled excuses when caught.

see also [1] and [2]

This is a last straw after a string of dubious and exhausting behaviour.

If you're an awful.systems user and you post to communities on those instances, you will need to create an account on one of them.

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[โ€“] scruiser@awful.systems 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

after scrolling through a couple days and accounts on the extended db0verse

I too was drawn with a morbid fascination to see what they were saying... db0 tried labeling all of awful.systems as dgerard's collection of sockpuppets acting as his PR machine with maybe a few other humans. ...I feel like I'm not living up to the hype, I'm not generating nearly enough PR for dgerard! Also, labeling us as a bunch of trolls. Which yes, one of our is literally called sneerclub, but since we don't actually go onto lesswrong (or other rat communities) to stir up shit (we can find plenty pre-stirred) I don't think trolls actually fits as a label.

[โ€“] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

Much like the Clock People in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues deliberately invented one ritual into which they could channel all their compulsions toward ritual, SneerClub is the place within which we can quarantine all our pettiness and have it manifest in an appropriate manner, i.e., reading Yudkowsky's posts in the voice of Augustus St. Cloud from Venture Bros.