@[email protected] If only Mozilla spent their billion dollars in assets actually developing Firefox and Thunderbird instead of AI and political advocacy. In the field of politics, persuing technological advancement first can do a lot more than asking permission later.

@[email protected] Just because most consensus answer is at the top doesn’t mean it is true, only that the search engine recommended it. Ideally, a search engine will show you in order most relevant to least relevant. That is what a search engine is for and what it should do. If I search for something I should have a reasonable expectation that the content was ranked by some objective standard rather than a flimsy algorithm or human reviewer. I also have a reasonable expectation to not have porn and malware advertised to me, but Google doesn’t get the message.

@[email protected] Just because the search engine indexes it doesn’t mean it is true. It is the same for AI systems.

@[email protected] It depends, on one hand the ability to summarize multiple searh results is a neat feature that saves time, but on the other hand SEO spam has gotten worse.

@[email protected] The world needs more fossil fuels, not less. When most of the world lives paycheck to paycheck on poverty wages caused by lack of energy, food and water they cannot afford to care about the planet. When the majority of people can afford to care about the planet because they have secured their supply of energy, food and water the earth will be nicer for all.

@[email protected] Remember that defederation harms decentralization and should be used as a last resort for instances that knowingly platform illegal content, have been notified about that content and do nothing about it. No moderation is perfect, but the highest priority for content moderation should be deleting illegal content and reporting it to the police, not policing naughty opinions and hurt feelings. When big tech knowingly focuses more on policing so called hate speech than protecting the millions of children that use their platforms, we all know where their priority lies. The fediverse can do better, and for the most part it is doing better. If Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Minds, Threads and other corporate platforms want to connect, let them, let mastodon users hear what corporate fediverse users have to say, but just because you are a corporation doesn’t mean you get a free pass to to be monopolize. The open protocol must remain open, but if we are to respect their rules than they must respect ours. That means that they do not get to complain about the otherwise lawful content we platform, nor do they get to complain about the fact that challenging corporate power is allowed on mastodon. Openness goes both ways and corporate platforms need to respect that, and we should respect that too.

@sabreW4K3 I am sorry, I took these screenshots with the GNOME screenshot tool, what computer are you using?

@sabreW4K3 Some screenshots of my own.

@sabreW4K3 All of them. Betterbird has bugfixes that Thunderbird doesn’t have. Including working with the system tray. Waterfox has more customizibility than firefox and those settings should make their way into firefox.