it seems that there were literal handfuls of attendees. link
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The counter-protest was bigger and funnier. Apparently one guy showed up dressed as the Monopoly Man.
check out the most recent post on !sneerclub@awful.systems
Ahhh, the joys of federation! When viewed from my instance, the most recent post in that community is from 4 months ago!
I think this is the post: https://awful.systems/post/7222752
What is that community supposed to be about? They do a terrible job explaining in the sidebar, and I can't tell if they agree or disagree with the crazy articles and videos they post
Yeah it took me a while to figure out. Basically they're making fun of a specific set of techbros.
- This article, linked to in the sidebar, describes their perspective: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
- this wikipedia article describes the people they are making fun of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
It sounds like the community ends up being fairly pro-AI because the zizian-adjacent TESCREAL nutjobs are anti-AI?
It sounds like both sides just suck
to be fair there are only a few federation communities with decent sidebars. I actually think its a big sticking point for why its not as popular as people suppose it should. communities on games and such could get very little posts but if the sidebar gave info about wikis and builds and such it would get more popular fast.
What was it supposed to be about?
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