During the peak of his fame I always thought this was a money laundering scheme from Musk. Only recently I’ve learned about the (not so much) theory that it was all an effort to screw with high speed train.

Yes, because it’s people like you and me developing AI …

They can absorb large numbers of users and communities and after a while close themselves to the outside. Meaning that once people “need” those communities they’ll have no chance other than go threads.

I think it’s both. Corporate greed and people helping keep this up

That’s why those who “jUsT pAy PReMiUm” are at fault. These companies are just pushing the line to see what sticks, and you’re perpetuating it by paying

You’re wrong you can still have linux without GNU

I see your point

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You went there, generated content for them which is generating publicity. Other people, without ad blockers, are going there to see it …

And yet this is probably good for reddit. They live on amount of engagement and you dummies just fell for it.

It was ironic that some years ago he was quoting Dune on Twitter. Either the message was lost on him or he was trolling…

It’s shameful that this individual keeps talking about making a better world for humanity and then he pushes for things like this. I always thought it was some scheme to launder money…

That’s a good thing. Keep the fediverae alive without overemcumbering servers. That’s what’s so strong about it, we can keep growing without too much costs.

Not it’s not. You should read about throttling down

That’s an overstatement. It takes a lot of work for some phones and you risk damaging it. Not everyone is able to do it even with the right tools. We need to have a solution so that anyone can do it

I did this without having my distro broken. It was like “oh shiny, let me try this distro”