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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Whatever the motivations are, at least the end result is moving to freer (non-proprietary) and sometimes self-hosted solutions. If virtue signaling is what it takes to get there, I would like more of it. Virtue signaling gave us quality universities and museums, after all...

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

The kind of people to use LLM to write news article for them tend not to be the people who care about mundane things like reading sources or ensuring what they write has any resemblance to the truth.

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

For large public servers it would be pointless. But for DMs and small private servers, it would be meaningful. Most people in DMs and small private servers would not appreciate their messages being publicly accessible like HN comments are.

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Discord also calculates a whole lot of (inferred) demographic information. Estimated age, gender, and surely much more. They also feed all the messages into a ML model, which guesses what people are talking about, and pushes a notification to other users. This is probably the culmination of all that, this is why they refuse to be e2e like every other reasonable messaging app...

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

The pendulum has swung a little too far that way, for sure. But when the so-called "cryptocurrency" industry either have business models that are barely concealed ponzis/rugpulls, or run their own "cryptocurrencies" that are only marginally better than a centralised database, it's hard to blame the critics.

Satoshi Nakamoto must be rolling in his grave.

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

There's no profit for the platform. As of now, both the "influencer" and platform are aligned in that they want children to consume more slop. If the platform doesn't have any incentive anymore, maybe most of those "influencers" will fall away, if the algorithm starts deprioritising content geared toward children. As you say, policing the "influencers" is difficult, but at least it is quite easy and simple to target the platform. Better than nothing.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Terrorist attacks and perverts are every government's excuse to crack down on freedom. Refusing to comply with an authoritarian government like India's is a plus in my book.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Yes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition).

If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit of a tall mountain, for anyone to take, the authorities and "rights"holders will not give a damn. Convenience and scale matters, and that is why Anna's Archive is a target.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Sure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

To give them the benefit of the doubt, people who talk to AI too much probably start mimicking its style.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I think the worst of the crypto people are probably the worst of the AI people too. Power/money-hungry grifters naturally move on to the most profitable grift when the old one peters out.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Amen, GitHub is already a faustian bargain for FOSS projects, this kind of thing will just entrench it further.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Chrome is not FOSS btw. Google Chrome is proprietary software based on the open-source Chromium (also created by Google), which in turn is a fork of Webkit (by Apple, and with many corporate and non-corporate contributors), which itself is a fork of KHTML/KJS from the KDE project.

You are still right that corporations found and contribute to countless open source projects though.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Based on the population size and school system, I'd conjecture there's more... though there is brain drain and emigration to consider.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

I would wager some VP at YouTube in charge of shorts has their performance evaluations tied to how many hours of shorts are watched. So that's one incentive. Another is customer retention. Make current paying users addicted to shorts, and maybe they'll be more likely to keep paying.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

It's quite funny to me to frame Spotify as an underdog, though I suppose there's truth to that, because of the sheer size of Apple and Google. I've never thought of it that way.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

> if you liked the company or product so much why would you take shots like that?

Key word here is "liked". Seems like OP liked the company when it had a free tier, and no longer does after it axed the tier. They don't owe your company anything, in the same way your company doesn't owe anything to the non-paying "customers" it stopped subsidising. No foul play by either party. I wouldn't take it too personally.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I'm not familiar with YouTube or Spotify premium, so this may be a dumb question.

But, doesn't Youtube Premium include Youtube Music? So why pay for Spotify premium too?