Google is absolutely useless now, nothing but SOE farmed rubbish.
It’s become completely unusable.
I’ve moved over to Kagi 100%
It’s well worth the money for the amount of control I have over my experience. Being able to black list, downplay or uplift specific sources is awesome
Xbox Series X, Surface Pro X,
They’ve just tied their careers to the profits of tech and have lost all passion they have for the nerdy hobby of their youth
Tech “journalists” have no idea how to speak about Mastodon or the fediverse.
They seem to think that unless something has billions of users, it’s dead. They can’t even comprehend how people could prefer a smaller more selective userbase
If it’s free, it’s not competing.
If you want to make something, go ahead and build it.
Artists don’t compete with other artists
it’s the opposite of dank
Lots of whining probs
100% and they don’t really need to reach the same critical mass as Reddit for example; in-fact they may be better if they don’t
I don’t see how misaligning to public opinion = bias.
The public is already hugely biased; we surrender the general education of the entire adult population to news media, social media, and the entertainment industry. Which all sway public perception for their own financial and political gains.
Tbh the “public” as a mass entity is going to be more wrong than a language model; I see who y’all vote for, I wouldn’t trust you with anything 🫠
100% I’m done investing my time in closed services controlled by capital
Google and Youtube have been sucking [insert preferred pejorative metaphor here] for ages; Musk just says the quiet part out loud.
But at least people are listening
Went ahead and deleted my account, might as well tear off the bandaid
The way you can blacklist listicles and similar garbage is worth the asking price in the face of it