Since a few months ago I get so many AI generated blog articles as top results with ddg (a lot with google as well, but less so)

Old video, still relevant

https://youtu.be/tk862BbjWx4?si=vM3Y7owR45jGDw56

Space heaters

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-jmSjy2ArM

So assuming you disable all the optional telemetry in the settings, you should be good right?

Another feature I’d like to see is instance admins proposing multi-communities, as in: multi-communities which pop up in the search results and allow you to subscribe to all the the communities grouped together with one click/touch. This way the problem of community fragmentation across multiple instances (e.g. multiple instances having a a “memes” community) would be solved (or mitigated at least).

I think he does know what a firmware. Just didnt’t realize the origin of the term.

A firmware is neither soft nor hard… it’s firm.

(Or maybe I completely misunderstood the tweet 🙄

Meme doesn’t need the bottom half

Yes and they would have their identity verified by the sub

No. The way Reddit works is that you care about the content, not the people posting it.

Mastodon must have a bigger problem with that (impersonation), but I don’t know if/how they solved it

stay on lemmy and never look back :-)

The default sorting is by “active” which to me doesn’t show a lot of new content (from the last hours). Switching to hot improves the experience a lot.

this is buggy. Pardon the nsfw, but it doesn’t work for gonewild@lemmynsfw .com

As paradoxical as it is, I think that these open source non-profit projects are a lot more efficient than profit-driven, debt-fueled corporations.

First of all, the main contributors to a FOSS project do it for passion and do not take a salary.

Secondly, they don’t have the infinite growth mindset that pushes enterpreneurs to to spend as much as possible for maximum growth, all financed by a growing amount of investors (and debt, which costs interest fees).

If a FOSS project reaches maximum capacity, they will close subscriptions, they will throttle traffic, i.e. they will slow down growth, but they will not go into debt. Slowing down growth is something that a for-profit company would never do (at least until the interest rates were low and the investors were plenty, today idk). Eventually someone else in the community will decide to do a generous donation or open their own instance.

The federation aspect of it has to be invisible to the user. The user shouldn’t have to pick an instance (unless they want to) and they should see communities from all instances by default. Also we need a discovery algorithm. That’s the most needed feature.