Finally we can be sane again: View quoted note →

Centralized platforms are utterly naïve and defenseless against spam: https://archive.is/yt2aD View quoted note →

Finally, a longform client for the 90s: View quoted note →

I know this is obvious and I know someone will say no one cares, but since I'm bored let me show, again, this time using Paul Frazee's own words, how Bluesky is stupid:

Update on Protocol Moderation - Paul's Leaflets

Where account takedowns happen is important

Notice how the "app" is still a fundamental entity in the scenario. An "app", here, is not a client, it is a server everybody that wants to be in that app have to connect to. An "app" can do anything it wants, it can ban you, it can shadowban you, it can show you ads, it can require KYC for allowing you in, it can limit what you write or what you see, it can be very good but it has all the tools for being very bad, it's just the exact same thing as the big centralized app-platforms of today and always. Now imagine the year is ~2005 and ATProto is the big deal, all platforms decide to use ATProto: everybody have your "PDS" that hosts all your posts. Now Mark Zuckerberg creates an ATProto "app" and calls it Facebook and starts fetching posts from your PDS. Facebook is very cool and everybody is using it to talk about all the things, it becomes the "public square". Fast forward to 2020 and you say you don't like dogs, now Mark Zuckerberg decides to kick you out of Facebook for that. You still have your PDS but you can't interact with anyone because everybody is using Facebook. How is this any meaningful improvement over anything?

I go to

Kagi Translate

Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.

every time I want to translate something on my phone. I also use Firefox for Android just because I can't find any other browser that is not worse (and I avoid browsers as much as possible there). But still every single time I start typing "tra" I get Google Translate as the only suggestion. I've deleted all instances of Google Translate from my browsing history a long time ago and have never since visited it again. Kagi Translate is not available in the suggestions ever. The suggestions work as expected for every other website that I tried, except this one. Is this Firefox being super shady (like they've always been)? Are they very evil?

GitHub is full of spam now, it's weird.

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