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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by tracker1 »

wpietri wrote: post #348
Pxtl wrote: post #304

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I'm loving Mastodon myself (@pxtl@mastodon.social) but I worry that the UI stumbling blocks caused by the multi-server system and the far-poorer discoverability than what we're used to from Twitter will keep it from growing well -- twitter's algorithmic feed and relevant-to-the-user trending topics and features like that help make twitter feel lively even for a new user even with just a handful of follows. I don't kn…

I think "is X the next Twitter" is the wrong question to ask. When I started working at Twitter (now years ago) my relatives asked me if they should join. And after thinking about it, my honest answer was "no". The only person who needs to be on Twitter is somebody who wants to feel like they're part of a global conversation. Most people just don't and won't. Twitter is only successful because it started in an era wh…

TBH, I really like Facebook's groups in terms of UX and maintainer level. I don't like FB themselves though, and their warnings are sometimes just at a level of insane.

Keep thinking I'd like to create an easy button for FB groups like self-hosted community setups. Then you can control/host your own interest group... add in live group chats (that FB used to have for groups) and just have a centralized auth and search that are opt-in.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by nr2x »

ceejayoz wrote: post #353
nr2x wrote: post #335

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Key difference is Google pays a FUCKTON of money to be default search provider. The US Department of Justice is going after this. Once Google can’t pay-to-play in Safari and iOS they are in very deep shit. This is the classic thing with monopolies: eventually the “innovation” is just leveraging market power to deepen the moat by burning cash. This is what happens when the CFO runs the damn company. Sundar has no visi…

> Key difference is Google pays a FUCKTON of money to be default search provider. Yahoo used to pay for that, and to package the Yahoo Toolbar pretty much everywhere. I remember when it used to try to install itself with MySQL . I'm sure it helps, for a while, until it suddenly doesn't.

People have no idea how quickly the house of cards can collapse. It’s a very dangerous path to juice profits by paying to be a default. Basically a self-made Ponzi scheme.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by alsetmusic »

tracker1 wrote: post #338
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

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The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

Relatively happy to see it... though I do tend to lean towards the free speech side of the coin, and kind of miss the relative wild west that was IRC in the 90's. I feel like centralized social media is a blessing and a curse. What's old is new again.

> I feel like centralized social media is a blessing and a curse.

This is what makes Mastadon interesting. I'm not using it, but a lot of people I pay attention to are.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

manmal wrote: post #330
raytube wrote: post #306

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I use ddg everyday and I hate it. I resort to Google shortly after. Not personalised so I guess I am missing out on decent returns.

Have you tried kagi? I‘m finding it better than ddg and often on paar with G.

+1 for Kagi. It's been my default search engine since Jan '22 and I'm very happy with it. On the rare occasions when I use Bing or Google I'm reminded all over again why I'm happy to pay for search.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

markstos wrote: post #270
jimsimmons wrote: post #221

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You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

I used Bing today. I’m denting.

For almost all technical queries, I've found GPT-4 to be vastly superior.

Most of the time, my search queries are just to find websites. Like I'll search for "[movie] rotten tomatoes" or "[book] wiki".

I've found duckduckgo to be a good enough replacement for Google for such queries.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by emodendroket »

jascination wrote: post #333
alfor wrote: post #283

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I tried Edge and bing, God awful. You just feel their desire to take control of your experience of the web. On the flip site, made me see how much Google own us all.

What's wrong with Edge? I started using it when Chrome started eating my RAM, it's been mostly unobtrusive and unnoticed, like a good browser should be.

How much better could the memory profile really be if they’re using the same rendering engine?

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by davidw »

tracker1 wrote: post #338
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

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The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

Relatively happy to see it... though I do tend to lean towards the free speech side of the coin, and kind of miss the relative wild west that was IRC in the 90's. I feel like centralized social media is a blessing and a curse. What's old is new again.

> wild west that was IRC in the 90's.

There was tons of /kick and /ban there too...

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by emodendroket »

markstos wrote: post #270
jimsimmons wrote: post #221

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You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

I used Bing today. I’m denting.

If I used the preferences of commenters here as a basis to make investments I’d lose all my money pretty quickly.
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