This is great and what I was hoping the Fediverse would turn into.

I was just one person with an idea; an international village adopted it and helped it, making its message go wide.

I want to do this again, but with the Fediverse.

I could start with a 40 minute visual presentation for schools and organizations, demo it, and see where things go. The cool thing is that I’m fully fluent in English, Italian and French so I could do these presentations in 3 languages – wherever people would welcome me.

It’s not going to be easy. But it’s definitely going to be worth it.

Plus comcast and any phone company, specifically AT&T

Thanks for letting me know that Qwant is Bing. It’s hard as a typical person to find any info on search engines, so I appreciate the heads up.

I’ve been noticing that they’ve been getting worse and worse myself. I was recommenced Mojeek and Qwant, but I haven’t made the switch yet. I always forget to use them instead.

Holy shit, they also cancelled it. Lmao

On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”

Mine too, we all voted and they listened.

I think we’re on the same page, I don’t care if they read my feed in the slightest. Reddit made a shit ton off of me and my friends and I didn’t care about that either. They were providing a free service and I used it, make money. My issue with reddit was/is, they think they’re the product and treat everyone as such.

Be the change you want to see

Yep, that’s one of the things I’m doing right here by getting the word out for everyone to spread out through the Fediverse. People were saying that when I joined, but I didn’t understand what the ramifications were. Of course, I can’t tell anyone on the largest instance, lol.

Nice, it looks like you can do it manually too.

When I unfollowed everything for the first time, I did it manually. I spent hours using a Facebook-provided feature to click unfollow on each of my friends, groups, and pages.

I’m pro-fediverse, that’s why I think it’s just as bad. There is one instance in particular, that has the vast majority of Lemmy, that is controlling the narrative for most Lemmy users and it probably will only get worse. I was banned from that one because an admin was curating what I said. Now I don’t really have a voice over there because I’m not savvy enough to do an alt that they couldn’t tell. So here I am, not being able to let people know that I’ve noticed them being curated and they’ve also banned my community in the biggest instance (that one I like).

This fact is rarely discussed but a major factor why the fediverse helps with democratization of the internet. Free information.

Absolutely, I want to keep it that way. I think corporations taking over one of the big instances would be subtle and will have terrible consequences for the fediverse. People sign up for it, not knowing, and then get curated just like on Facebook.

Why not both being an issue? Why wouldn’t they say who they really are if they’re a major corporation.

Meta (or similar) probably is already running one of our major instances. We don’t know who actually owns all of them.

It’s terrifying and super cool at the same time. I think all of the execs at these big tech companies need to rewatch the Terminator.

Here’s Gizmodo’s take: https://gizmodo.com/weird-teeth-fake-microsoft-vasa-1-ai-free-video-creator-1851420514

I knew about the cables, I didn’t know how extensive they are.

In 10 years it’ll probably be good enough to take over completely. Right now, it can take photographer and artist jobs pretty easily for news and online magazines.

Also, this: Waymo and Uber Eats start human-less food deliveries in Phoenix

They already have tbf. Which is actually fine if we had universal basic income, then AI away. We don’t though, we don’t even have universal healthcare.

I’ve been using this app and have really liked it. Please tell me that I chose well and it doesn’t have hidden problems: https://antennapod.org/

VM?

It looks like it doesn’t work across the board, but thanks for the heads up: https://adaway.org/

Ads are not blocked when on mobile data connection!

AdAway will not work reliably when on Mobile Networks like 3G. You can deactivate that proxy by going to your selected APN (On Android 4: Wireless and networks -> More… -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names) and remove the value in the proxy field. Ads in Chrome are not blocked!

Doesn’t Ublock Origin work on phones now?

They can get your info in other ways if you visit sites that have links to meta products on your phone. You probably know that though if you don’t have them on your phone, this is for others that don’t know.

Wasn’t sure if this was the right place to put it, it seems tech to me since they’re making tech gateway, decisions for social platforms? I’ll delete if it’s not the right place.

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Wtf does that last bit mean? Also, are there alternatives, that was a good resource.

I hadn’t heard of it before. I think what it’s indicating is even more dystopian, they want to be able to tell the difference between human and machine? Yikes, and people agreed to do it.

That would be the one thing I’d want it for, I’m thinking about it. I never really found the need to use one of those until I was making a large dinner for friends and they used their watch to help me keep track of everything.

There are a lot of lonely people in this world, there was some mention of it in an article a few weeks back.

People are using it as a partner, they’ve already found that to be true. Probably teenagers, which is kind of worse.

Holy shit, does that mean there are ways to check if it’s a bot because there are triggers?

Edit: Meaning, if it doesn’t have these weird titles and otherwise seems sort of legit.

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Many voice actors have suggested this new deal is at odds with the purpose of that industrial action, with Fallout and Mortal Kombat voice actor Sunil Malhotra saying he “sacrificed to strike half of last year to keep my profession alive, not shop around my AI replica”.

Didn’t Facebook steamroll over the people that owned Meta when they picked it up? Maybe they paid them off eventually, not sure.