This is silly. The web is not in decline and Google is not at fault. Most of the web is garbage, and Google helps us find the information buried in a sea of ads and repetitively copied/reworded content. We are moving to a world where putting up a plagiarized page with tons of ads will not be profitable. The sooner that day arrives, the better.

I agree. I also notice a constant push to ban anything that is deemed offensive, which in most cases is just a statement of opinion that someone did not like.

Agreed but it bugs me that I need to pay Reddit to not see ads and on top of that they get paid for the content we produce. The fediverse is a better model.

I don’t object to my content being used for training. I do object to Reddit profiting from that data. It’s the reason I basically don’t participate on Reddit anymore. Anything I post in the fediverse I am aware I am offering it up for free to be crawled and used as seen fit as long as it is not monetized without my consent. I don’t consider model training to be monetization.

If RCS is such an awesome standard, why not mandate it for all EU phones? Apple already supports the current standard, which is SMS. The idea that they have to open up their proprietary software seems silly to me.

I try to stick with doing all my subscriptions with apple, google or PayPal. Always keep it where it’s easy to kill.

Everyone needs to take more responsibility for the nonsense they read instead of blaming it all on the platform or Elon.

Just wait till the first security vulnerability are discovered in the code that now will be able to run on iOS and which Apple can’t control directly. Nobody will remember that the cause was forcing Apple to open up their system. They will just blame Apple.

This man is, and has always been a train wreck 

They lost me as soon as I saw the headline. Not worth reading any further.

I really try not to judge on these topics. If I can somehow justify they’re not relevant to the job.

If you’re a religious person with a suppose, moral compass, when Trump cheated on his pregnant wife, with essentially a prostitute, doesn’t that raise all kinds of red flags? I don’t know. Honestly I’m just asking. I don’t go to church and I’m essentially agnostic but my moral compass makes me run the other direction when I see something like that. 

We need to allow for the possibility that it is far more weird than that which honestly is a very human centric view.

The American way!!

I have never been able to wrap my head around voting for somebody that supposedly supports policies you agree with while being clearly a bad person/leader to the core.

I wondered the same thing. These agencies want to be seen as hip and with the times. It’s leadership is always thinking about their next gig in the private sector they claim to regulate.

Criticizing Musk is what all the cool kids are doing. Everyone that likes to follow the latest fad seems to want a piece of the action.

Most of these laws end up moving more money in taxes but not more money for anybody other than government burócrata.

Heaven forbid you are trusted to make up your own mind. We’re not qualified.

I don’t think that most people that inherit that level of wealth end up very happy. Everyone has problems. The more $$ you have the more you focus on the stupid meaningless stuff.

In don’t know or care about their intentions. If we want to claim we are an open protocol then mastodon needs to role with the puches. Otherwise you might as well be on threads.