I never see any ads.
I never see any ads.
Too early for skiing. And Bidis are an awful smoke.
It’s time to start taxing the acquisition, retention, and selling/trading of personal data.
Actually, that time was 40 years ago.
The tech world is steaming Full Ahead toward an inflatable Gibraltar.
I once asked/complained about something and sent it to possible bezos email addresses, just guessing.
On a Sunday morning, I got a reply from someone from his office.
I thanked them for replying on the weekend.
Canceled my account last decade…
We’re not going back.
Looks like Alphabet is going to start the Extinguish phase.
Face is looking increasingly compromised and distorted every photo.
Thank you.
CEO s are too stupid to know that stuff. They can’t start a car without help.
Which one do you recommend for an MX runner?
Need cheap off craigslist, long battery life, wifi tethering that works, not too huge.
They chased the people with any common sense away.
Doesn’t surprise me.
The 2 largest mastodon instances both misrepresented involvement or intent with Meta to their users, then turned around and federated.
Those were/are the best chance for the fedi to leap forward.
They are the most popular and also now the keast likely to be used by tech people, both because if the association and because they misled their users.
The admins of those, one of which is the masto dev, have arguably done more harm to the fedi than anyone else. People left for bluesky right after the bragconfession and openly posted about why.
So it’s not in the room with me, because I dropped their scene and closed all my accounts.
It takes a moral village idiot to compromise the whole environment just to grab some cash for their subsequent honeymoon. Not unlike current Twitter management thinking, and not unlike social media thought-levels in general.
Tried Masto and Pixelfed, left after The Great Sellout to Meta. Trying Lemmy for now but it’s limited in breadth and scope.
I’d like to see a fedi digest app more than anything, gathers it all up and presents it. Then if I want to interact I can sign up for one of them. But first I want to see where things are.
In general, the technically-discerning aren’t going to care as much about quantity, more about quality and features.
I’d like to block every wealthy narcissist and never read their name or see their troubled insane faces in posts, I’m fed up with the narrative on both sides and have other interests.
So if Frontpage gathered it all up and filtered out the paid narratives and shills I get to choose, while letting me follow interesting minds, I’d be very interested.
If it had a prominent link to which instance, it might become clear what instance and software is best for me.
Right now I like Piefed’s ability to filter and not Lemmys militaristic intentional inability to do so.
Masto filtered, but doesn’t migrate well and now federates with the shitasses on Meta, which I don’t want to consort with or support. If I want to sign up for Meta it’s not hard, but I haven’t ever done so and don’t need coercive help from fake empaths running .social instances. I’m not a farm animal, Stux.
I think the fedi got it backwards, new users need to browse first to find what they want. I get it as a techie kind, but right now it’s forbidding to many with all the unknown choices.
If Frontpage, someday, can also interpolate comments and vote between the softwares that survive, that’d be a nice thing to add to a browser that’s already familiar to new users.
But I think it’s way early for that. Kbin is already in the past, Mbin may or may not be a true continuation, the Meta connection nay not be worthwhile for their investors, bluesky is still a pig-in-a-poke for me.
One thing that is missing, again, is a digest to browse.
I kept my Incredible for over a decade, rooted it at a boring job within weeks of buying it and kept trying builds from a dev forum, kept a few on a sd and had clockwork.
I had one job that required 4, so before leaving I’d back up, then wipe, then install the 4.x build with their app on it.
At the end of the day I’d wipe and restore the 3.x build I was using, by the time I got home it was back to the way it was.
This is what I want in a phone again, not hide and seek with predatory data companies. Not only that, but it was fun and I learned things.
But didn’t block any of the AI companies who stole from everyone.
Or was it the other way 'round?
Ask the AI companies who scraped my sites while the media companies were DCMA-ing everything in sight and working with enforcement paid for with publuc funds to prosecute/persecute the “pirates”.
Peak was pre-12.
Who bothers to look at votes?
I don’t have the space; can one download e-bricks?