Eh. DDG and other search engines exist, and all Google has gained is that the entire rest of the search world (as well as button makers, context link creators, RSS, bookmarkers etc) have to drop them because the URLs don’t actually resolve to results and are indistinguishable from phishing functionally speaking; meaning Google won’t even get people’s search results by proxy now.

Now, if all other big search providers do this and engines like DDG have to drop them, we’ll reach a new golden age, where new and more ethical search providers can enter the playfield and start without a big disadvantage.

Do I need to point out that this has never worked against linux/open source?

Kindly point me to three generalist, widely known XMPP servers.

2026

complaining about em-dashes

You are completely ignorant about where do AIs even get their data from, yes?

A free knowledge cookie for you:

The em-dash is the language standard sign in Español for dialogue tags. Literally.

You don’t need a knife to make a knife, and things like OCR are different from AI (or from “AI”).

FUCK IT THEY GOT PAPERLESS-NGX TOOO???

Fedis, what’s the best alternative?

…this is the first time in the entire Fediverse that I feel not-that-old 👀

Names are subjective. “Youtube” makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. “Craiglist” is even worse.

Less “platforms”, more “content in the platforms” tbh.

But quite definitively, local government agencies and municipal level agencies participating in their respective national instances. Defo reduces the dependency on Shitsites.

This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform’s storage and CPU usage.

We wish! Honestly this kind of stuff should be done in, like, C. Maybe in Fortran. Not in a “framework of the week” language.

The microsecond you made that post, it was slurped by a crawler or a clanker somewhere anyway, be it Bing, Yahoo, Google, etc…, and Fediverse can’t do shit about that. Deleting it does not really help you any if your threat profile is “I might get ICE’d”. Better to own (literally and metaphorically) what you speak with your own name.

yucateco eh? Now we’re talking.

It would increase the number of bad descriptions and desincentivize people to add good descriptions or (depending on the interface/permissions; you are assuming I could just manually go and fix someone else’s alt-info in their image) submit fixes and corrections. And it would kill the environment even more anyway.

and AI can make it faster to reproduce the text in tge image

That was solved decades ago without AI. It’s called OCR.

You do realize that would lead to people (humans) doing the descriptions even less?

I don’t see the tamarind one.

The “all” feed has a lot of those

So you’ve just discovered why the “All” feed is called “All”… geez, people these days.

Yeah I was going for the “if only there was something like LibreOffice” joke.

OpenOffice?

From what I have seen this so-called Rimu is a dangerous person. From built-in CCP-style shadow profiling in the Fediverse, and now this? Honestly I would not be against declaring them persona non grata.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the anti-divergence / anti-leisure campaign against thorns (the þ thing).

Wow was that really it?

My understanding is he’s the Potterying of the Fediverse. Trying to enshittify things in advance and somesuch, presumably to launch some sort of IPO? Heard a lot of drama re stuff like quote posts, or the suppression of “toot”.