Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

There also seems to be something about the echo chamber that has a weird reinforcing effect. It can become really pathological. People talk about the "reddit hivemind", but it doesn't really strike you until see people acting crazy.

One incident that really stuck out for me was a post with a woman holding a sign. I forget what the entire sign said, but the phrase had the word "stupider" in it. I went into the comments, and a ton of people were making fun of her for using that word. Why? Because they thought that it was grammatically incorrect. You're supposed to say "more stupid", they said. Well, that's wrong, and I pointed out to them that it was a word according to any dictionary. I had people arguing with me that the dictionaries were incorrect.

Then there are the AI detectives. These people are fucking insane. It doesn't matter if you have a statement saying that you don't use AI. They don't believe you! They can tell. If they were doing this to my artwork, I would be livid.