Yeah, the end result of that was Napoleon. Not great.

No.

With the search results, you know what the sources are. With AI, you don’t.

Insurance is just a bad model for healthcare.

I don’t have any problem with hospital workers being fairly compensated. They have difficult jobs, and doctors are highly skilled and have expensive student loans to pay off. But the cost of care in the US is astronomical compared to any other industrialized nation.

So, if it isn’t important, you just want an answer, and you don’t care whether it’s correct or not?

The signup process for Bluesky is the same as Mastodon. You can join the “main instance” at joinmastodon.com or choose an alternative instance. Most people aren’t going to wade through the sets of rules on alternative instances like you did; they’ll just join the default instance at joinmastodon.com.

It’s a better, more usable platform than mastodon

I haven’t yet heard an explanation for this that makes sense. It looks more like Twitter and it has VC money behind it. That’s it, as far as I can tell.

I wish more than people treated these platforms as disposable like they are.

It would be easy if they were actually decentralized. The way it is now, if you leave, you leave all of your friends. Getting all of your friends to leave with you is a ridiculous task. You can’t even get 3 of your friends to agree on where to eat for lunch. Try getting all of your friends to follow you to a different social network, where they have to create new accounts, etc. If you have that kind of clout, you should start a religion.

I’m not trying to convince people to use FOSS here. I’m explaining how users of FOSS aren’t “consumers”. It’s understandable that you’d make demands for a service which you are paying for. In the case of FOSS, you’re using a free service, so you can threaten to take your “business” elsewhere, but it makes no difference because you aren’t contributing to the project in the first place.

Imagine if a user of Wikipedia started making demands about what features the site should have, how it should be run, etc. Somebody who had never donated or even edited an article. What do you think the reaction would be?

You aren’t a consumer with FOSS. You’re part of a community. It’s an entirely different paradigm.

If you don’t like the service that you’re getting for free, there are a couple of options. One that’s already been suggested is to pitch in and help make it better yourself. Another is to start paying. Make donations. Offer to pay developers for the features that you want. Pool your money with other users who also want those features. Developer bounties are a thing.

People will just jump ship to a new social media platform as they always have.

That isn’t how this works. Nobody’s jumped ship from Facebook despite all the myriad complaints people have had about it for over a decade now.

The only reason why people are moving to BS is because Musk helped a wannabe dictator get elected. In the USA. That’s pretty extreme, and if BS didn’t exist, they would still be on Twitter.

“Normal people” don’t know, or care, what FOSS is. The lack of advertising does hurt, though.

I have a feeling Norman Mailer would’ve had a different opinion if he were, say, an African-American man. Or a trans woman. Or any of a number of other marginalized groups.

It’s possible for them to both be terrible.

Not surprising, considering that A) Lemmy is very similar software and B) a lot of the users are former redditors.

Just having downvotes creates toxicity.

Yeah, you’re right. Trump would never do anything that’s a conflict of interest.

The problem is that you can’t use info about wolf hierarchies to draw conclusions about human hierarchies. You can’t even use info about extant primates to draw conclusions about humans.

When the Earth itself is out to get you.

They thought the COVID vaccine was more risky than actually catching COVID?

esoteric people

Believe it or not, they have dictionaries online now.

Then you just have the overly-processed coffee.