@neauoire i also really can't see a use of these things in my life. also i wouldn't care even if they had "god as a service" on the other side, i am not sending any data even in form of queries to anyone. i will respect a piece of technology only if it works on an environment i can own and understand.

@neauoire Re: the quietness of the web, I think a lot of folks have shifted a bit from the internet to “group chats”, especially once Covid hit. That was definitely the case for my circles and my spouse’s. People are also spending a lot more time passively consuming stuff I think, like TikTok.

(Unfortunately for me, my group chats all blew up due to relationship drama — not my own — which was impetus for me to become active on gemspace and, later, fedi. I stayed off of TikTok.)

@neauoire I find people with mundane jobs that often require "replying to <communication> professionally" use it often to automate that. Or people with poor reading comprehension or search comprehension will use it for quicker google-like results for basic stuff.

Things that are well documented (like excel) but with very poor UX seem to benefit. I have found myself asking it rust questions and its helpful sometimes.