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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…

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 resemb…

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 the…

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 guess…

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, …

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 inc…

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.

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 c…

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…

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

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 pete…

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

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…

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

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 re…

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.

> 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 d…

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?

> what I made But did you really make it? Or was it the AI? If someone commissions a piece of art from an artist, I don't think the commissioner would be able to truthfully say the…

Not OP, and I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but why? Reddit now blocks many IPs (requires login/signup to see the page now). Plus the site takes a few years to load, if you do…

> Same reasons for why we mandate belts in cars. Hardly anyone in the "west" gets pulled over by police for seat belt checks (unlike say, India, China), yet nearly everyone still w…

The manga scanlation world is pretty big, but that's not been my experience and understanding at all. 1. For truly popular mangas, no serious group is going to wait for a chapter t…

reticulum.network perhaps? It certainly fits the "replace the IP layer" requirement, and I believe in theory it can be very large scale, though unsure how it would do in reality.

Well, it's a lot easier to automatically scan and store emails than postcards (eg, flagging all emails with certain keywords or in certain languages)... I guess nowadays they can u…