Engaging algorithms is the reason people stay on proprietary services. Fediverse users love to shoot themselves in the foot talking about how algorithms and AI sucks then wonders why people don't want to switch
I use a Google Pixel 6 Pro with GrapheneOS, Google Voice for probable spam, YouTube, and Google Maps for search. Once the GrapheneOS phone comes out that will probably be my next phone (and fuck Google with their planned obsolescence, makes me not want to buy another Pixel). Google Voice I don't care but I could switch to another paid JMP.chat number if I need to. YT is difficult to leave (both for content and algorithm) and the Google Maps alternatives suck for searching.
I went on Gab recently to see what the reaction was regarding the Epstein files, and calls for Trump to be executed was not what I was expecting. And r/conservative doesn't give a shit but thinks Trump is an idiot for other reasons. Also seeing an influx of people who previously supported Trump but are stepping back after the ICE shooting and constitutional violations. So not sure who likes him at this point; he might actually manage to beat Biden in being unpopular.
Last I checked it costed ~$6000 to run a high end LLM at terrible speeds and that was before the RAM price hike. And at the rate things are changing it might be obsolete in a few year. And I don't have that much money either.
I'm going to stick with the free OpenCode Zen models for now and maybe switch to OpenCode Black or Synthetic or whatever when they stop being available and use the open weight models there for now.
I use it a lot for my own projects, and even with the open weight models it usually gets 90-95% there for more trivial things if you know what you're doing, which GUI development is in the category of, and it has sped up my development. Is also helpful for debugging.
Matrix at least has potential for the UX to improve especially with vibecoding being a thing now, Discord will always be a bloated laggy locked-down Electron mess with no public API and hostility to third party clients and automation tools
Just log in with a third party client where people in the Issues are complaining about being banned. Or use your Discord token and spam their API with illegal calls until they ban your account
Matrix is sort of a mishmash of things, not a fan of the UX but it has federation and encryption and isn't Discord, and also has bridges to various platforms
That doesn't look like clarification to me. It explicitly mentions sexual content then gives a vague "age-restricted themes" and "18+ content" that they can apply arbitrarily like YouTube did with "Hind's Hall"
This here says that Discord can automatically age-restrict channels and specifically mentions channels focused on sexual content in a different section, implying that this is not the only "mature" topic they will age restrict.
Engaging algorithms is the reason people stay on proprietary services. Fediverse users love to shoot themselves in the foot talking about how algorithms and AI sucks then wonders why people don't want to switch