this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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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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[–] scruiser@awful.systems 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

libertarian socialist ideals

wtf are these ideals supposed to be?

If its "libertarian, but doesn't want people dying in the streets or dying of preventable diseases", I will give them the tiniest modicum of credit for being better than standard libertarians, but being libertarian at all still leaves them deep in the negative on credibility in my books.

pro-non-corporate GenAI technology

By which I assume they mean corporate models that got released as open weight models (and at-best/at-most got a touch of fine-tuning from a community effort), but still ultimately originated from mass plagiarism and are still not useful beyond generating slop...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

"libertarian" outside the US is the leftist term that Rothbard specifically and knowingly co-opted for shitheadry

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago

Very little relation to capital-L Libertarians. Libertarian socialism is broadly socialism that seeks to replace the state with smaller-scale social structures and direct democracy that can satisfy everyone's needs equitably without the threat of violence or enforcement of property rights. Libertarianism is meant to protect capitalism from the state; libertarian socialism is meant to protect people from both the state and capitalism. I don't want to get into the details of leftist ideological micro-labels, but generally confusing anarchists with anarcho-capitalists is the quickest way to piss off both.