this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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@dgerard lol. GTFO
Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?
Fill me in, I've never heard of that user.
oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag
however,
let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because:
there are more, we can go deeper
You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing"
@pulsewidth I have no idea. I was reacting to the shenanigans reported in the video
Well I've definitely misinterpreted.
This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as
Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked".
Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that.
P.S. It's also kinda an exposition of how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP.
adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance
anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges
at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)
Please sir, may I have a scrap of context?
Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason.