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I kinda embraced that as a teen and honestly hurt me a lot over the years because I have an irrational, pathological need to be different even when it doesn't matter and even when it takes way more effort and hurts me.

Or maybe it was always there idk

There are bots too but you can tell a bot. Usually anyway.

They didn't all leave. It's not a hive mind. Especially since reddit got popular and the original base got fragmented and whatever.

No it's not. If you actually read the study, it's about AI search engines correctly finding and citing the source of a given quote, not general correctness, and not just the plain model

I still see active accounts over a decade old

There are some real clips mixed in there

Lol if Google really wanted to kill FF they would just stop paying them half a billion a year.

They are already training on the fediverse. If something is on the public web, you can assume it's in some training data somewhere

They're not forks, but we have piefed and mbin (fork of kbin) and a couple more that have shut down

This is true, I am generalizing based on results I have confirmed. But I have no reason to think it might be otherwise for other fields

I do not know where you got that idea. I am asking for more thinking regarding the technology.

I'm not arguing over ethics. There are lots of people here who do have problems with its capabilities

It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors

Do you mean every major social media platform?

I suppose that's true. And also deranged to do it on purpose

Ridin' with Biden

Ok but that is actually a nonsensical statement. In no case will using threads and recursion reduce cpu usage

Google overpays quite a bit so they have a viable competitor to point to for chrome. If the payment tracked FF's usage numbers it would be way lower now. It makes no financial sense for any other search engine to pay that much.

That's assuming they could even afford it. Most can't

The correct solution would have been for Mozilla to pursue alternative income a long time ago. Owning a browser gives you a lot of leverage. Instead they made a half-hearted attempt a few years back and half the products failed. I don't know why FF fans were so comfortable holding them as the savior of the web when they were entirely funded by Google.

And now... well I don't see a way forward either. Maybe it should just die then.

Yeah

*threadiverse, we don't want to exclude other software

Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?