@FireQuacker It looks like this was relatively benign

but the CA operator's resellers site was hit with a DDOS after this post, and they just shut it down and redirected the traffic to whitehouse.gov :DDD

@CaffeineAddiction The biggest problem is that GPT is really really bad at providing answers in specialist areas of expertise - but it sounds convincing. Dealing with this has raised mods workload through the roof. It isn't as easy as saying - well we moderate existing crap answers from people who are wrong. It is a new level of bad

Sure, it's easier on the smaller sites, but on SO where individual mods may handle many thousands of flags it's an absolute nightmare

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192312

So reddit is banning users that strike

Lets see who burns through their community faster. Reddit or SE

Reddit is just so much bigger, but I think both have enough users who don't know/don't care

Are there any stats on how many users Twitter lost?

Mastodon showed up as almost a full replacement for Twitter. For Reddit and SE, I don't think there is a reasonable alternative (yet)