This is silly. The web is not in decline and Google is not at fault. Most of the web is garbage, and Google helps us find the information buried in a sea of ads and repetitively copied/reworded content. We are moving to a world where putting up a plagiarized page with tons of ads will not be profitable. The sooner that day arrives, the better.
I agree. I also notice a constant push to ban anything that is deemed offensive, which in most cases is just a statement of opinion that someone did not like.
Do we know they are monitoring our usage of the launcher?
Agreed but it bugs me that I need to pay Reddit to not see ads and on top of that they get paid for the content we produce. The fediverse is a better model.
I don’t object to my content being used for training. I do object to Reddit profiting from that data. It’s the reason I basically don’t participate on Reddit anymore. Anything I post in the fediverse I am aware I am offering it up for free to be crawled and used as seen fit as long as it is not monetized without my consent. I don’t consider model training to be monetization.
It’s this kind of nonsense that always makes me run back to my iPhone.
It is confusing. If you have two apps on your phone that do the same thing, how is the new user supposed to know what to do? I’m thinking of Samsung and how they insist on shipping their own branded stuff that, for the most part, brings nothing new to the table.
My take on it is that the Republicans will do their best to drag this out until the election. No compromising or middle ground. Just make it out to be the crazy Democrats fault. This stuff gets to be very predictable after all these years.
Until you realize that their implementation of AI, whatever that means, in their case is mediocre, and nothing more than a marketing term. 
As with everything Samsung tends to do I’ll bet the AI stuff is half baked. 
I had a light camera. It was very good but it needed more cameras.
In don’t know or care about their intentions. If we want to claim we are an open protocol then mastodon needs to role with the puches. Otherwise you might as well be on threads.
Yeah, let’s defederate from a major player that wants to participate in the decentralized nature of this protocol. That way we further fragment Mastodon and guarantee its failure in the long run! Good call!!!
So far I am very impressed with beeper. I cant find anything that does not work well.
Oh, the whole sheep argument is silly. iMessage is better than RCS, and I don’t blame any Apple user for wanting to stay within iMessage if possible. It’s not Apple’s fault that Google took forever to get their act together in the messaging space.
I wish them much success but sounds like a hack.
I bet they do some thing like make it optional on the iPhone and the user needs to turn that setting on to get RCS. Obviously most users don’t care and will never look. 
I pay for YouTube premium, but it’s a lot of money given they have $0 production cost.
Yes. Agreed but this causes confusion. You need online storage.
Mine is 1Password mainly because I really like the way they handle Security by forcing you to use a key that they issue you that we know is very secure because of its length than randomness. It also has the best ui of the ones I have used.