RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).

Not broken, working as intended (for them). They just happened to say the quiet part out loud this time.

I’m from a very Italian neighborhood. Angelo is a common name, if you’re feeling a bit ethnic and don’t want to stray too far from what you grew up with. Plus you’d get to learn all the hand gestures.

This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.

Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.

Then you get to load and execute 10MB of JavaScript while another 5MB of ad content loads and displays in the background. With the obligatory two dozen API calls to various trackers, counters, taggers, and “optimizers” in the background of course.

Sounds like the Internet in the 90s.

The AI companies are doing something different and possibly worse by stuffing all of the open sites full of AI slop and then re-training their models on said slop.

Wasn’t there some mythological figure that was doomed to eat its own excrement or something?

Well at least there’s the fediverse, onion routing, nostr ID management, simplex and others. It’s not quite a Plan B, and definitely takes some effort, but is much much better than nothing.

You can tell they’re scared of it because they immediately tried to retract/clarify the statement.

Though IDK why they’d care this point since the Supreme Court already declared Google a monopoly and turned around and said they weren’t abusive enough and gave them no punishment.

Well they don’t get all the credit. Oh, wait, they control how much of the market? Ok, nevermind.

(the DOJ says 91%. Google somehow claims it’s only 10%, to which I literally LOL’d).

Maybe a browser plugin/extension would be better in your case then? That would actually probably be not too hard to vibe-code if you’re so inclined.

I’ve seen this ask come up a number of times now – and to a certain extent, the Piefed and Mbin frontends do kinda to it already in that you can have your microblog and threaded content in the same UI. But before taking that further with pixelfed/loops integration as well, ask whether it’s really a good idea. There’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other. I would make the case that the fediverse would really benefit from a portable user IDs auth system that could be used between different services or instances (which Nostr kinda does, and there are other zero-knowledge proof-based services that could be integrated), but with regard to content display and just interacting with content, having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.

I wonder, do instance admins or community mods ever have (virtual) meetups? That might be therapeutic and could possibly expose problems before they become too big to solve.

Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.

So every AI’s gonna identify as an Arch user with striped socks now?