How is Musk going to profit from running Twitter into the ground? I think I did not understand that part.

I don’t mean the setting. It won’t be able to play them anymore even if this is turned on.

You will have to add your channels once. These can be backed up into a file and imported onto another device. Not super convenient but compared to how annoying the official app is I am OK with it.

It has little to no bull shit and it can play with screen off. Age restricted videos are a problem.

If you hate the official app it’s perfect for you. Literally just your curated feed and nothing else.

I am pretty sure they know how many accounts they will lose for every dollar they increase the price. It should be a net positive for them because otherwise they would not do it.

Enforcing terms and conditions that they previously did not is just another price increase in the grey area that is not directly perceived that way.

I agree that “Lost x amount to piracy” does not even make sense in that context. They know exactly what they are doing.

What would be the technology behind my own streaming platform?

So far I do it very old school with data on my Nas and a software that catalogs and plays over Lan only.

Quote the sources or the source’s sources of Wikipedia. You would not believe how bullet proof this is against plagiarism if you do your citations correctly.

I don’t even understand how people get caught.

I guess most people browse the web and that’s why bigger screens work better. I happily bought bigger phones. Some people like to pretend phones are for calls but that’s just not true IME.

In all fairness, they are zoo animals

This wants me to download TikTok…

This graph probably assumes that the child will lead a similar lifestyle as us for an entire lifetime.

If the child grows up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland however it’s not going to have that footprint.

There is hope is all I am saying. 😉

I am on the internet for so long and read the whole thing. Disappointed with myself.

The made interesting and visually engaging? Oh and soandso is a black woman now.

Hasn’t there been this thing that told you you are opening a sketchy website for years?

Why do we need more policing, who asked for that?

If you fall for some scam website then it’s on you. Don’t use the internet. The end.

I think that growth is not going to happen passively. These comercial platforms are deliberately pushed and advertised and there is always some new content whenever you open the app.

Fediverse, lemmy whatever may have the better model in theory but that is not enough to create buzz or to reach a critical mass of users.

"Hello here is the better model now come here, why aren’t you here? " is not guaranteed to work.

A slightly dangerous part is that ChatGPT makes up convincing texts that may be wrong due to misunderstanding and or biased.

Maybe that does work again after the thing with subreddits going nsfw has been somewhat resolved but not sure. It was my thing too. I heard good things about bing of all places. In general search just got worse over the last 5-6 years.