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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I think you mean progressives.

    The issue there, is not having a progressive party to vote for.

    The Democrats have been nearly as as tied to Neoliberal Capitalism as the Republicans. They only done the bare minimum to court progressives, so as to not upset the big donating ownership class.

    But perhapse if they loose enough, they might catch on and start to embrace economic-populism.

    I voted for them. But I can’t blame people who don’t. We’ve been ignored for decades now.




  • API index access is an important difference.
    If it was only that, without public facing ad driven search, I’d be more impressed.

    Maybe if you removed the adds, and severely rate limited your own public facing search, so it’s more of a demo than an actual service. This would force you to solely make money off the API access, without directly competing against those customers.

    That would be an honest buisness model. One that doesn’t turn users into eyeballs for advertising. Which seems to me, to be the most insidious problem of the modern internet, and its effect on society generally.















  • You’re conflating free speech of individuals, with engagement driven black box recommendation algorithms of corporations. It’s a common mistake. I think most people make it.

    A company can allow people to post things, and for people to see them if they like, without algorithmically pushing it in endless scrolling interfaces.

    For example Lemmy and Mastodon. You only see what you choose to subscribe to. The sites don’t chose to push any content into your feed because an algorithm thinks you’ll like it.

    There is a big difference between the two.
    And removing the algorithms isn’t a hindrance to free speech, only profits.