Should have stayed on until musk booted them. Missed opportunity. Also X needs more counter-content, not less.

Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

When I see this kind of thing, I think, “Screw that. I want to listen to real people.” But then I wonder if that’s because I’m GenX shaking my fist at cloud and in the future will this become normalized or even demanded?

I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

I don’t care what they do as long as they do it over there.

I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it’s x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don’t think we’re currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

I’d say it’s more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

I say there’s a good chance Trump deliberately did not submit a statement just to get this to happen.

A) I don’t think there’s anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there’s not a heck of a lot we can do about that.

The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we’re doomed!😅

People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

I’m not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I’m not a big corporation.

I’ve been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that’s easily used. But it sounds like it’s about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

Also, yes Mozilla, I’m sure the reason people aren’t switching to Firefox is because it lacks good advertising support.

100%, Google is leaning into Mozilla to make this happen.

Fuck the ad-based Internet right back to the putrid hole it came from. The second uBO stops working is the second I stop using that browser.

I wasn’t always this way. I used to not block ads to help support creators. I used to have ads on my website 15 years ago. And for this transgression, I sincerely apologize.

Now I make money at my day job and everything I post, which is a substantial amount, is free and untracked (except for 5 days of web server request logs).

Sure I can’t write full time with this model, but we’re billions of people. If we each just made 10 minutes of good content a week, that’s more than we can possibly consume.

And I’d rather have more good content than I could possibly read than the mountains of AI-generated SEO tripe that advertising brings.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

We need a competitor badly.

I like the legal antitrust approach to get them to stop this.

Another one I’ve seen out there that seems decent is PocketBook, but I’ve never bought one. You might be able to find a used one for $100.