Marc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
Alright! I've been blocked by the ominously threatened guy. I suppose I failed to read the room. I'll live. :P
Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin

Oh, he's still going. He thinks* we hate journalists and he just can't figure it out. He's trying to help us! Journalists are good and we don't want them and that's fine! It's just confusing! Why don't we want journalists? Why? It's fine, understand, totally fine, but it's also a mystery we need to solve or else can't get my journalists to visit!

*I mean, he's decided it, I dunno if "thinking" happened.

Apr 6 at 11:16pmWeb
Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
"I'm not saying let anyone in, I'm saying let anyone in." Is he paying attention to what he's typing?
Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
"guys, they haven't even had a CHANCE to ruin everything you like about this place yet!"
Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
he's shocked, shocked! at what goes on here. Shocked. In 2026 he's shocked at *mastodon's apparently monolithic echochamber culture* and not, maybe, anything else.
Show threadMichael Gemar1d ago
@quietmarc Anyone can spin up an instance. That doesn’t mean anyone will want to talk to it.
Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
@michaelgemar Oh no! :P
Show threadD1d ago
@michaelgemar @quietmarc can confirm.
Show thread🍄slow learner, ❤️‍🔥deep feeler23h ago

@quietmarc

I've seen it before. The sincere persona, the Understander, takes over and your editing skills wilt under the cognitive load.

Show threadGigi 🍄‍🟫1d ago

@quietmarc

Is the "he" in question, perhaps, Jesse Brown?

Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago

@Gigi No! Sadly, the main character (for me anyway) is an otherwise unremarkable computer guy who's mad at "mastodon" for not being sufficiently fawning to reporters* and then "mastodon" getting too angry at him and telling him -ominously- to "read the room" (the phrase is a tell-tale sign we're enforcing group-think on him).

*he's fallen back to reporters, saying mastodon hates reporters, there are no reporters here, but the push-back originally started when he said and meant "reporters who give AI positive spin."

Show threadMarc "ACAB" Godin1d ago
@Gigi My guy's name is Scott jenson and he's blocked me for being rude (I assume, he didn't say)
Show threadGigi 🍄‍🟫1d ago

@quietmarc

*patiently waits to join you on the blocked list*

Show threadGigi 🍄‍🟫1d ago

@quietmarc

Not that I was looking for an excuse to procrastinate or anything.

Back to the word mines.

Show threaddottie says KYLR23h ago

@quietmarc

i perused that person's profile and they arent an actual journalist, theyre a pseudojournalist, but more importantly theyre a pr flack. glowingly reposting press release "news" that exists to glaze tech companies does not a journalist make

as an example, this dude actually reposted an nyt article that was already proven like a year ago to be essentially an article-length advert filled with lies about some "ai" scam medical company that provided nonfunctioning weight loss drugs. and this pseudojournalist did the classic thing where he reposted the article and said it was a great article, while offering no commentary or anything else newsworthy to the discussion

i assume he did this because he only read the headline which agrees with his "ai" sycophancy, but regardless it's abundantly clear he never read the actual article because it's chock-full of red flags! it even has several open, blatant admissions that this "ai" medical company is doing scams on "patients" lmaoo, flags dont get redder, crimson itself would blush with envy. so no he is not a journalist, he's a pseudojournalist and pr flack for monopolistic tech companies, some of which are operated by executives who are literally named in the epstein files

i love to see pseudojournalists and hubristic tech sycophants like this get draaagged to hell, and hopefully he fucks off into the distant galaxies. but i will also say it saddens me to see people working in the upper echelons at mastodon are publicly coming to his defense and openly arguing that we should let all these bad actors join our social circles because. i assume they defend him because tech executives fundamentally misunderstand what inclusion is or how it functions, though i'm sure a convincing argument could be made that mastodon executives are trying to do enshittification

mastodon executives out here defending "journalists" who spread glowing reviews of proven scams? and physically harmful medical scams at that? john mastodon would be aghast!