immortality via glitch, bestowed to a post that describes this site as a shell game run by silicon valley grifters. seems apt.
@hugo.town
academic, university of oslo. itinerant, but less so than I was. used to be @metaleptic on twitter, used to be online a lot but I lost faith. here just to keep an eye on things. currently head of @uio-oceh.bsky.social. find me here: https://hugo.town
immortality via glitch, bestowed to a post that describes this site as a shell game run by silicon valley grifters. seems apt.
trying to delete all my posts here and running straight into the less-than-transparent backstage architecture of this place.
I've deleted this post in three or four different ways and technically it does not exist, it is not in the repo—and yet, it is here, it persists, I can quote it.
implemented by the motherfuckers holding the pan.
bluesky is a shell game run by silicon valley grifters, and their narrative about "decentralization" is a joke—but after a few years in the activitypub space, the vibe there too is indescribably exhausting. increasingly I think the problem is the idea that a "good" social media exists anywhere.