Post APp61m4UmvFP10CMxU by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
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 (DIR) Post #APp61m4UmvFP10CMxU by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
       2022-11-21T08:42:38.048825Z
       
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       @artemis Hey, I'm involved with this project. Brands Town is a satirical ARG that involves a developing lore and lots of roleplaying. We're literally building a wiki and hypnospace-like websites for it.It started as a way to thumb our noses at brands on corporate social networks, and also to make corporatization of our shared space be that much less appealing for Brands to join. It's culture-jamming.A lot of people started impersonating real brands, and after getting several C&D letters from lawyers, I decided to create an in-universe reason to get rid of them. People were warned ahead of time, the best jokes were screenshotted, and those accounts got deleted. The AI is 100% fake and was just me mashing buttons. The AI is also a brand and a character in the lore.Anyway, it's all meant to be in good fun, you're 100% welcome to join in if you like. It's just a bunch of people, some of which work in marketing and social media, blowing off steam and doing weird creative stuff.
       
 (DIR) Post #APpGDXKQQYWYJ5tfJA by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
       2022-11-21T10:36:59.283161Z
       
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       @artemis Even in the context of the joke, it was only ever implied  that an AI company staffed, developed, and founded only by AI was providing a service to purge local accounts on the server. Nobody has the ability to do this kind of thing on other instances.The idea of haphazardly handing the controls of user management over to a grumpy AI ( @headless , one of my characters) , instead of carefully reviewing things by hand, was just me clowning on how inappropriately real companies are handling things like machine learning.I'm sorry if it made you uncomfortable. I mean that sincerely. But the truth of it is, this is all just metafiction to let some people goof around in a space that they've loved for years. It's just a vanilla Mastodon server run by a guy who's coding abilities never surpassed basic point and click adventure games.
       
 (DIR) Post #APpGJgqVxDZlYwqAim by volume@fr13nd5.com
       2022-11-21T10:38:24.395195Z
       
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       @sean @headless 👍🏻https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19MoEo9HH5EdEf513Ef3wDk3MXihDYvRa?usp=share_link
       
 (DIR) Post #APpJ9YbI3WMcxLZyqW by slightlyflightyone@mastodon.sergal.org
       2022-11-21T11:09:25Z
       
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       @artemis @sean I think you and I feel very different about this, Artemis, but I definitely support your ability to mute any servers on which the content makes you uncomfortable 🤍