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Hacker News has an alarmingly high tolerance for slop content these days It also has social norms against accusing something of being written with AI, which means the community has trouble strengthening its immune system against that slop

Vincent

@vinnymac.dev

1 June

What do you mean? Same it’s always been from my perspective 😉

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

1 June

I'm talking about AI-generated slop Interestingly it's rare in comments, but increasingly common in linked articles

Vincent

@vinnymac.dev

1 June

Oh I know, I was being cheeky

Vincent

@vinnymac.dev

I find the lobsters posts / discussions more based, but I do think we are ripe for someone to disrupt this space in the near future. Hoping to see an atproto based platform take off

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Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️

@push.cx

1 June

If you'd like to combine those two topics: github.com/lobsters/lob...

github.comAdd BlueSky/atproto integration · Issue #1248 · lobsters/lobstersLike Mastodon, BlueSky is another plausibly-successful successor to Twitter (RIP). So let’s mirror that functionality from #1175 to support it. A couple of these to-do list items I have to do, but ...