It's pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that's a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?
For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I've never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂
I've definitely felt the enshittification of DDG. A couple of years ago they would start dropping hits related to my location into my search results, even when I had region off and private search by default. That gave me the impression that my IP address was being used and possibly passed on to Bing, but I don't have the chops to confirm it 🤷
Friend, as I understand the situation you wrote the guides already, then crunched them into image files. If you have the source text, why expect others to put in the work of transcribing them? 🤷
If those aren't your original guides I apologise for my misunderstanding, of course.
Looks like you put some consideration into this, so I'm a little disappointed that you are sharing text as an image format, without alt text.
Please take this as constructive criticism, I know graphics are the easiest way for many people to share something like this, but particularly for non-visual media like audio books it may be worth your while to address the visually disabled as well 🙂
At this point I'm just posting this over and over again:
![Two panel comic by Tom Fishburne. In the left hand panel a man sitting at a desk gestures at his computer screen saying "AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote".
You'd probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn't offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.
I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.
I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷
I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.
I'm not downvoting, because you're definitely right that the intents of the people in and behind this administration have been telegraphed for years. The responsibility is really on the shoulders of everybody who refused to believe they would follow through.
Project 2025 spelled out their game plan, but people around the world took false comfort that Trump would definitely be a normal president this time, and respect the fundamental democratic and parliamentary process. Well, guest what.
The political pendulum has commuted from left to right on a regular basis for so long, the imagined worst case scenario was that the US would have to wait out Trump v2 for four years and Democrats could get back to business. But part of Project 2025's agenda is to stop the pendulum and make sure there is nothing to return to.
I'm sad for my US friends and colleagues that are caught in this teardown, but nobody should be able to say they didn't see this coming a mile away.
What I take away from these testimonies is that, again, the people in charge show that they have little understanding of and zero respect for the skills and craft of creatives — and in this case also programmers. We always knew that, but it is next level offensiveness to demand that skilled professionals use a subpar technology to "generate" ideas, designs and code.
The art director who forgets all his learned process of idea development and instead just prompts Midjourney until he sees something he likes (but which his staff will have to backward engineer to make sense of) is a terrifying image of things to come. Fortunately I'm long out of the corporate creative treadmill.
[Edited to spell "Midjourney" as one word. This is my organic human accreditation 😄]
Lemmy won't be tumblr, it will just federate with it 🙂 So I guess c/curatedtumblr will work even smoother when it becomes possible to just cross post over ActivityPub.
FFS, our first verbal contact with nonhuman persons is going to cause a diplomatic crisis 🤦