I was reading some of their articles and I noticed that they have eerily similar writing styles. In fact, I've seen similar writing styles across the whole web, especially in the last few years.
They both have almost the exact same section "real alternatives" near the bottom with alternatives listed in exactly the same order, despite supposedly being written by different people. The latter article also has several em-dashes, which are very characteristic of AI because nobody remembers how to type them or wants to copy-paste them when they can just type hyphens.
This article also mentions the exact same alternatives, although in a different order and inside a paragraph: https://cy-x.net/articles?id=27
Of course IRC, XMPP, self-hosting, and RSS are great and we should all be using them, but isn't it strange how the exact same alternatives are mentioned across three different articles written by different people?
And of course, some of their articles have classic indicators of AI:
- Lists with an odd number of elements (3 or 5), or three sentences of the same format. - "It isn't just X, it's Y" or similar mutations. - Lots of words with no substance. Most of what these articles are getting at could have been described with several detailed paragraphs at most.
With a bit of prompt engineering, you could probably generate very similar articles using a LLM.
If you view the page source for any of their pages, you'll see dozens of lines of SEO garbage for sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Discord. Isn't their goal to get away from such sites? Also, look at their privacy policy (which is conveniently hidden away at the bottom of a forum post and not accessible from the front page).
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I figured I should post this in hopes of generating more discussion.
2 Name: meat2025-11-21 02:45
never heard of this site but looking at some stuff on it seems like it's a cesspool
3 Name: Anonymous2025-11-21 18:20
You’re schizoing, this site’s legit
4 Name: Anonymous2025-11-23 05:42
they might be schizoing, but idk if the site is legit or not. it seems fine i guess, but my overall impression is a vague sense of unearned self importance. but i dunno. maybe the problem is it is in the uncanny valley of self importance and needs to not be poking at its own ass and dive all the way face first into it.
Look at these two articles:
https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13
https://cy-x.net/articles?id=28
They both have almost the exact same section "real alternatives" near the bottom with alternatives listed in exactly the same order, despite supposedly being written by different people. The latter article also has several em-dashes, which are very characteristic of AI because nobody remembers how to type them or wants to copy-paste them when they can just type hyphens.
This article also mentions the exact same alternatives, although in a different order and inside a paragraph:
https://cy-x.net/articles?id=27
Of course IRC, XMPP, self-hosting, and RSS are great and we should all be using them, but isn't it strange how the exact same alternatives are mentioned across three different articles written by different people?
And of course, some of their articles have classic indicators of AI:
- Lists with an odd number of elements (3 or 5), or three sentences of the same format.
- "It isn't just X, it's Y" or similar mutations.
- Lots of words with no substance. Most of what these articles are getting at could have been described with several detailed paragraphs at most.
With a bit of prompt engineering, you could probably generate very similar articles using a LLM.
If you view the page source for any of their pages, you'll see dozens of lines of SEO garbage for sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Discord. Isn't their goal to get away from such sites? Also, look at their privacy policy (which is conveniently hidden away at the bottom of a forum post and not accessible from the front page).
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I figured I should post this in hopes of generating more discussion.