Actually, it depends, and the final form of my username on most social media platforms has a very long story.
It all began when I found this meme funny.
And my username became pippipthediddlydo.
But that honestly became quite a handful, so it got shortened to PipPipTDD. Then shortened even more to PipPip, as people honestly just called me Pip most of the time anyways.
During this period my friends and I had developed a tradition where on Halloween, just for the day, we would put "spooky" in front of our username. I don't remember how my username evolved in this timeframe, but at some point I decided (because I'm very funny /s) to take it a step further and in a very ironic fashion, add a "not" in front of that spooky, to then remove the "not" on Halloween. So the entire year I'm "not spooky" until the one day that I am. And a few adjustments here and there got me to my current username on most platforms (because pip gets taken literally everywhere): notspookypip.
As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it's WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything
I'm a new driver who drives sometimes, and when I do it's with my grandfather's old car. It is a problem. I don't care what reasons you have to suggest they're better, if I can't see fcking anything at night when a car drives past me, that's a problem. I want to be able to see pedestrians, I want to be able to see if an animal is in my way, roadsigns, literally anything I need to see and I genuinely can't do that. It's blinding and that's not an exaggeration
The thing about that though, is that to reduce the population in the least invasive, most peaceful way, is progress. And I mean progress in the geographical locations that are currently being kept from progressing. Human rights and progressive ideas, better healthcare, worker's rights; these are all crucial to achieving lower birthrates. It's an intersectional problem, always has been, always will be.
Yeah the monetization is what brought this downfall in the first place. It's definitely not the same as AI, it's sharing pre-existing work and unlike most platforms, with credit directly to the artist's socials or webstores and was especially good for fashion designers and artist-sellers (though that also started going downhill since it got overtaken by dropshippers). I looked up online and found alternatives already such as cosmos.so which includes user owned media, not just reposting, but my issue came with then protecting said media from being scraped by AI en masse
If it's a lost cause for Americans it rly ain't any better anywhere else considering how many companies are owned by them :'))) if you guys can't stop them, there's no way someone from a bumfuck country like myself could do anything about it besides informing myself and rejecting it as much as I can
One of the reasons why I made this post is my dissatisfaction with pinterest lately, as it was one of the only major platforms I genuinely used. It's an absolute shithole now, there's no debate about that. If for example, a pinterest-like platform could exist without needing to be visible to non-registered users or search engines (you could search in the platform yourself anyways), would there be ways and infrastructure to make this platform safe from AI?
That's awesome, keep up the wood work ;)