And a lot of it is clearly AI generated

Yeah. I bought my kaptop second hand. When it still had windows on it, it was basically usuable because jt was so laggy. I installed linux and, badda bing badda boom, works like a charm. Its been my main computer for a fee years now

This makes sense once you consider that the top models all have basically the same training data (i.e. everything ever posted on the internet).

Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain

Honestly verifying the buyers age at the store is probably more private embedding age verification into the OS itself

Well there you go. Hopefully they get around to overthrowing the mobile webkit overlords soon enough

Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed

Is it a design flaw? Or is it just false advertising? If I sell you a vacuum by telling you it can mop your floor, is the problem with the vacuum or the way I’m selling the product?

I like learning new tech too, but if we’re being realistic then we have to admit that the fediverse will not grow unless we spoon feed it to people. Maybe we don’t want it to grow that much. That’s a conversation we could have. But we should acknowledge that there are tradeoffs here

It sucks and its at the point now where were hitting diminishing returns so I’m not sire if it sill get better

Who are they (if you feel continue sharing)? It sounds like there’s a story here

These are good ideas. Hopefully something like that happens one day. In addition to events it would be nice if there were more in-person groups (eg for a class or local community group) that chose to connect online primarily through the Fediverse. You see that kind of thing happening with Discord. It would be good if we could do something similar here.

Stuff like this is why Bluesky is more popular than Mastodon. We need to find a way to fix these little quirks if we are serious about growing the fediverse

As far as I can tell piefed.ca seems to be less regulated than piefed.social

I think a simple ‘popular’ or ‘trending’ feed wouldn’t need user tracking. Or if it was really needed to be customized maybe users could opt into share what topics they are interested in when they sign up

How can we create something exclusive to the fediverse?

Nice

Ah okay that makes sense. Too bad the drivers are closed source that might be the cause of a lot of these issues

Nice. Which model is it?

Yeah the self-hosting thing is new, its really clunky and they dont encourage you not to use it. I think (?) they may have even discontinued it.

Its odd to me that Signal is supposedly the gold standard yet it breaks all these privacy 101 rules. Such as requiring you hand over your phone number to a central authority, not really allowing you to self host, and not posting an official app on fdroid. I’ve heard that portions of its official repo are not even open source (though I haven’t verified this for myself). XMPP sounds like the better choice to be honest.