richardazia

In the current era when you install a new web browser it will ask you which old browser you want to import your data from. It will also allow you to create an account with the browser company to keep it synched. You can swap browsers daily if you like. It's relatively quick to do.

It bothers me when people think of social network use as addiction. If you went to a bar, restaurant, work or school you wouldn't see it as an addiction. I think that seeing social media as addictive is especially harmful when Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok use it to do immoral things. They hide behind the "but they're addicts anyway, so what does it matter?" Social networks are not addictive. They're compelling.
Does this mean that married people are addicts, to each other? Think the absurdity of calling social media addictive. It devalues our online communities to use such words.

I think the damage is done. It will take a while for Google et al. to re-index that quagmire of tweets.

A. No one cares
B. Stop making him visible.
C. May he be forgotten by history.
What a horrible little weasel he was. (he's still alive, I'm just happy we don't hear about him anymore.

They're going to collect a lot of worthless data in the process. They will need to fine tune their "signal-to-noise" algorithms and machine learning.

Now that someone else has got away with doing this Google can. They scraped it to improve search, now they scraped for AI. Iterative change.

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We don't miss the freedom. We know that we have a choice. We're from the age of web communities being twenty to thirty people large. In those days communities were small. Now we're shouting in a crowded room, to be heard. It's nice to migrate, and find places where we're heard, without having to be loud.

You're an allosaur of the web like me. ;-). We were here before even the dinosaurs. ;-)

My opposition to Facebook joining the Fediverse, through threads, is that everything that Facebook touches, becomes garbage. Instagram was a fantastic photo sharing app, until Facebook bought it, destroyed the community, and then changed the app from photo sharing to video sharing. Most of the people my age were part of Facebook, when it was young, vibrant, and a network of friends of friends.
We chose to leave Facebook for a reason. We chose to leave Instagram for a reason. For the leeches to then come, and invade yet another space is frustrating. We made a conscious choice to break from our Facebook friends, and Instagram friends, and now Meta wants to invade the Fediverse.
For me, it's not about protocols. It's about their habit of invading and destroying communities. Twitter was invaded and destroyed. With Twitter's demise, I considered dumping social media, altogether. Reddit reacted so strongly to their own changes, because we have seen how badly Twitter is being treated today. Reddit doesn't want to allow that to happen to them. For clarity when I say Reddit, I mean the Reddit community, not the Reddit owners and shareholders.

Nothing especially new. I'm surprised it has taken this long to decide to use it for AI. At the same time, I hope they have a team ready to deal with all the copyright claims. If youtube was a minefield, AI will be. They're stealing IP directly and recycling it. If Google becomes AI, then Google will make itself obsolete. We use Google to search for answers by others, not to be force-fed a single answer.