Post #1984682

2026-05-04 23:55 UTC

Would anyone be interested in forming a programming / general niche nerdy tech stuff community where LLM discussion is completely banned? I've been finding programmer spaces more and more and more unbearable as slop death machines become all-encompassing and unavoidable. It's pretty tiring and isolating and I realize I haven't opened lobste.rs or hacker news or reddit in months because LLMs are all they talk about and I hate it. I'd be interested in setting up a discord / matrix / xmpp / fluxer / whatever where things can be better. If you're into the idea, please reply and retoot! Thank you.

Replies (11)

@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net 2026-05-04 23:57

@witchgirls@woof.tech That sounds awesome!

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@mossgrove@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-05 02:01

@witchgirls@woof.tech j (She/It): If its a space where folks don’t appeal to the holiness and sanctity of humanity and personhood (and make other anti-nonhuman) remarks when complaining about the corps and their LLMs, then absolutely

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@crowk@critter.cafe 2026-05-04 23:59

@witchgirls@woof.tech sounds great, we'd definitely be interested in something like that. maybe we'll get some of our enthusiasm back in a place where others are being creative, and where being bad at something isn't an immediate precursor to some slopbro popping up trying to sell something

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@pmc@mastodon.ffcentral.net 2026-05-05 03:15

@witchgirls@woof.tech @noxypaws@packmates.org If you filter the vibecoding flag on lobste.rs you can cut out a lot of the LLM conversation

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@chris_evelyn@fedi.chris-evelyn.de 2026-05-05 05:52

@witchgirls@woof.tech Yes please!

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@perri@woof.tech 2026-05-07 13:01

@witchgirls@woof.tech Yey yes :blobcatcoffee:

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@devalot@hostux.social 2026-05-15 05:49

@witchgirls@woof.tech Yes please. And something I can connect to from #Emacs please!

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-05-15 06:05

@witchgirls@woof.tech we'd enjoy participating

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@etenil@toot.cat 2026-05-15 06:19

@witchgirls@woof.tech I've stopped reading lobster.rs etc. For the same reason. Nowadays I mostly read about tech and programming things from people I follow on the fediverse.

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@denkbeteiligung@digitalcourage.social 2026-05-15 06:20

@witchgirls@woof.tech Yes. I don't want to see automatic AI reviews with 1000 words on my projects without even asking... My hope is that @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de is not following github in this respect.

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@cblgh@merveilles.town 2026-05-15 06:41

@witchgirls@woof.tech in case it helps, i've heard this referred to as an "ai-free zone" :)

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