@eloquence also this kind of statement makes it look like there was not bots, trolls and content farms, spam, SEO squatting and other form of flooding the internet with content-shaped manure. bad actors did not wait for LLMs to flood the web with shit.

@eloquence That's nice, but it doesn't help against the major developments. I do research in my job, for example, and it now takes me three times as long to find reputable sources. A few scattered private tips don't help much. This is where politics comes in, we need independent searches.

@eloquence Hey I have a fun lil website I work on with my music and art and links to many other fun indie sites!
https://wetnoodle.org

#IndieWeb #webmadethis

@eloquence @w3c

what took them so long ?

@eloquence @freedomofpress The example makes it even better.

@eloquence they sould also give money to sailfish jolla and adopt an european OS.

@eloquence @sovtechfund @gnome Funfact, they have so called "Apple classes" in German schools. I love this move but idk if the German Government will be the one to switch to FOSS stuff, that's just one of their institutions!

@eloquence @sovtechfund @gnome I understand that people here like open source getting funded (me too), but we should remember that the government takes money from people who might not care about foss at all; they would maybe rather buy a new fridge or go to a vacation to Costa Rica.

If you like what open source devs and organisations do, please, give them your money and support. ❤️
Don't force people who may want to spend the money differently.

@eloquence my approach was - delete the app, then remove the link from the browser favorites and after a couple of days you might see that you’re not missing anything. Then delete the account. I’m not going to further support this crazy conspiracy-extremist person.

@eloquence Deleting one's account creates the danger of that handle being relaunched by an impersonator. Mere inactivity sends the same signal to advertisers & management.

@eloquence IIRC this is part of the effort to make website verification more dominant in the interface, it's a really good addition

@eloquence And why would i be interested in the number of followers?

@eloquence @Gargron

I would love to verify my domain but it doesn't work with google sites 😭

@eloquence If the hardcore self-promoters and "personal brand" / monetize-all-the-things people all end up somewhere else… I'm not sure I'm going to be exactly bothered by that.

I don't have a problem with businesses (even "brands") in my timeline, and I used to follow a bunch on #Twitter. But the grinding-for-followers stuff (or Google's equivalent on YouTube, grinding for subscribers) is super tedious. IMO it encourages the creation of really marginal "content", not conversation.

@eloquence Also, Threads is run by bloody Meta, which is just Old Man Facebook wearing a cheap rubber mask.

Do not sign up.
Do not federate.
Do not give them your data.

@eloquence generally agree, but unfortunately that free labor on VC-funded apps is sometimes necessary for other things, like job recognition

@eloquence ...he said no.... :FrogePing:

@eloquence I set up a filter to block 'RT @" which takes care of it.

@eloquence

Hear, hear. Enough already. :D

Maybe it's time to put a filter on "@twitter.com"

That always stuck out like a sore thumb, like facebook's heinous trying-way-too-hard custom laughter emoji.