Erm, but, uh… There’s nothing about decentralization that makes it inherently ad free. We currently have an ad-free network of sites, but we also used to have an ad-free web.

Decentralization does not solve this. The only reason there’s no ads here is that they haven’t arrived yet.

I mean, most of the communities are on .world, and if they’re not federating with .world, they’re just not going to show up in the majority of comment sections.

But also, HB is much more of a communal space than most of the big instances, and much more aligned on how they engage with off-site content. And as the fediverse grows horizontally, a significant part of it probably going to be through focused instances, rather than more general purpose sites. We have those covered already, and most of the people interested in something like that aren’t going to leave Reddit anytime soon.

They have what they want.

This means there will be more “we don’t want to host this kind of content” discussions over time, not fewer. The fediverse will look more patchwork, not less.

Recommendation engines aren’t the biggest issue. People will figure out how to fins what they want, and be generally happy with that, if looking is easy enough.

The big issue is that “join the fediverse” is a really, really shitty and incomplete recommendation. It’s like “join the blogosphere!”

And “join Mastodon” or “join Lemmy” is bad, too. It’s like asking them to “join Joomla”.

You need to point people to the specific website they should join, and that website has to already have what they’re looking for. People aren’t interested in building something.

They just want to consume.

“I don’t want AOLers on the web. The open internet should just be for us enlightened few”

JFC, * don’t want you pricks on the fedi. Can’t you go back to BBSes or something and wank each other there?

Nah. They just believe it will make stock values increase (or that not doing thr AI thing will cause stock values to decrease).

Remember, a publically traded company produces shareholder value. How they do it doesn’t matter.

Yeah. I switched to free weights last week in prep for not being able to access any of the machines at the fitness centre.

At least the running lanes at the track usually stay empty. I needed to work on my cardio more, anyway.

I’d rather excise games based on setting, rather than mechanics nuances or narrative structure. Zelda games are about the story of Hyrule. We don’t be needing none of them New Hyrule, Termina, or Koholint Island stories in the franchise. They can be something else.

This is still validating the profit incentive of private health insurance.

If the doctor prescribes unnecessary care, it should be none of these peoples’ business, because they shouldn’t be allowed any stake in the decision whatsoever.