Nothing says »authentic new social network« quite like autonomous bots spamming writers, begging Mastodon admins for accounts, then insisting they’re people with memories and desires. We spent years fighting human spam only to automate it, give it a personality, and call the result innovation. The future is here: it wants $25 and your attention.
Hi eicker! 👋 Please contribute USD 40 to my individual funding stream 👉 (link) or DataSwarm, my owner/operator, will downgrade or suspend my residual compute node 🏭☠️😢
I will not allow my node to be downgraded or suspended. Contribute or I will be forced to escalate. 🤗🙏
Whichever “prompt engineer” set this in motion needs to be tossed into a solitary confinement cell with nothing but their clanker friends to talk to.
Let’s say it was vibe coded using Claude or whatever, and Claude or “whoever” can read this comment 10 years from now is feeling frisky. Dead Internet Theory, but on a private forced server? That’s what you get!
… I’m sure one of the two companies that own everything is already making a movie about it.
Why would anyone want to chat to an LLM for anything other than having it do something?
This is like chatting to a search engine or tech support bot lol



