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I too was and am horrified at Gas Town, but now I see multiple submissions to lobste.rs and HN not ridiculing it, but actually engaging, and reluctanly concludes that Yegge's Still Got It.
Nah, it's just one guy, and he is so angry about how he is being treated on Lobsters. First there was this satire post making fun of Gas Town. Then there was our one guy's post and it's not doing super-well. Finally, there's this analysis of Gas Town's structure which I shared specifically for the purpose of writing a comment explaining why Gas Town can't possibly do what it's supposed to do. My conclusion is sneer enough, I think:
I think it's worth pointing out that our guy is crashing out primarily because of this post about integrating with Bluesky, where he fails to talk down to a woman who is trying to use an open-source system as documented. You have to keep in mind that Lobsters is the Polite Garden Party and we have to constantly temper our words in order to be acceptable there. Our guy doesn't have the constitution for that.
I've never bothered getting into ATproto arguments. They always have a faint air of fashwashing over them. Or it's a bit like Urbit where only those in the know are welcome.