The card says moops after all…

This is a reference to one of the episodes within Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook series, and more generally how people talk emotionally not on top of but in place of logic - exactly as AI does today except these kids have been doing it on the Internet since Eternal September and more widely speaking since before human beings were homo sapiens.

i.e. it’s not going away anytime soon, and since we keep throwing out all of the old wisdom, we’ll need to find replacements, as we FAAFO all this live. e.g. Lemmy threw out karma as some kind of measure of someone’s age and popularity, but… what does it offer to replace what karma was used for, on forum boards that even predated Reddit by decades? Nothing, which makes this akin to 4chan where the burden of examining each and every message purely on its own merits a daunting and dare I say grueling task at scale, especially for mods and admins.

Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.

Then again, Reddit is somehow worse so… again, brace yourself, because the next wave is coming!