I definitely feel more motivated to participate here, because of the emphasis on human to human interactions

Ugh yeah that’s like half the people I know irl. I don’t get it

Yes, and

their ultimate goal is to make people use the APP monetise every single interaction

I plan on going to smaller fediverse graphs if it ever gets too mainstream around here.

The moment I see a fuckin brand I am out. Joining whatever network has a zero tolerance policy for that corporate fuckery.

Problem here is it relies on people using redit after having found lemmy. I know some people do, but I can only imagine it’s a one-way valve for most.

This reminds me of how a buddy of mine used to rename his desktop files from like “Carmaggedon demo” to remove the “demo” because it made him feel rich.

Saved

My beloved

True. Profit is about the only thing these companies will never generate, but there’s still money being thrown at them, it’s just being spent on bonuses, mergers, and data centers.

Scrapers could peel off 1B of that to pay for what they’re taking (like the pay for antique, print only books—because they can’t physically steal those) instead of just robbing the commons if they really wanted to, if they thought that anything they were doing was ethically defensible or financially sustainable. ___

So… pay for it? It’s not like the money isn’t there

I’ve got mine down to 32 byte string to describe the location, datetime, and people in the photograph, with flags for who’s smiling and/or blinking.

You’re good, I just wanted to make the point for anyone who might just give up and stick with Google because they can’t decide on a perfectly virtuous replacement.

Any change from the mainstream is a good change. But for anyone who wants to dig even deeper, oooo boy is that something you can get into.

Perfectly put. I’ve expended paragraphs circling this succinct point.

I have access to essentially unlimited local compute at my work. Some of my coworkers use it to run LLMs, some use the pre-enshittified corporate models, and I gave all that a shot—like really went for it, but ultimately would rather just work at my own pace.

In my workplace the people who use them come off as kind of frantic to my eye. Like they’re always making these overly engineered greenfield things no one asked for, which gets them a shout out at quarterly and then no one ever thinks of it again…

I’m not saying there’s 0 legitimate use for the technology if you could divorce it from its problematic origins, but I’m not that smart, and people are increasingly coming to me for help when previously they seemed happy to just talk to their little corporate minder.

I feel like chatbot and text generating models generally encourage dark patterns we don’t even have names for yet and I’m just highly wary of the whole thing.

I wish this was talked about more. So much hay being made about this on the assumption that Google maintains their own database of locations instead of pulling from sources like GNIS like they actually do.

I think this gets mentioned every single time one of these stupid name changes comes up.

I think they must mean an override to the name in the db?

But even just getting off the main Google search page is huge. So much of this is about adopting a posture of flexibility and taking responsibility for your data to some extent, and which companies you can and can’t tolerate. So just rejecting the convenience of using Google as search is great.

Because now you don’t feel so totally helpless—you’ve got an example of exercising your agency over your “digital life” and you can keep doing it as needed/desired with greater ease.

Main thing to realise is you’re not going to find a drop-in replacement for Google that is some giant centralised search and auth platform strangely super-motivated to reduce friction between you accessing products online.

The best time to start was years ago, but good for you for starting.

I started by just using another email as my main, to now I don’t need a single Alphabet product for anything I do.

Who said 100% was the goal? We don’t ever have 100% guaranteed exploit free code, or 100% guaranteed spyware free code, etc. The point is you send a message and try your best if you think those are worthwhile goals to attain.

The people saying “but we can’t possibly stop all usage, so why try” aren’t being pragmatic; imo they’re giving up. My assumption is because they don’t want to confront the nasty externalities of their own ai use.

The same could be said of a lot of technologies that enable greater corporate capture at the expense of the environment and overall human wellbeing—and we should be doing something about those as well.

They Ubuntud themselves )_)