I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts

Wake me up when they finally bring up the UI to modern standards

Same with people believing all vtubers are AI chatbots or, to a lesser extent, that all female vtubers are just men with voice changers.

Like a minute or two of looking up either on any search engine would clear things up. But hell if it does show how little the average internet user seems to know about AI or audio editing. A lot of people seem to think technology is just straight up magic.

They also originated loot boxes (TF2)

Its the absolute lack of algorithm. No, really. I know Mastodon toots it as a feature, but without an algorithm to keep people scrolling most people just close the app and do something else. People who don’t understand instances would just go to mastodon.social anyway, but since no mastodon instance is actively trying to keep its users engaged 24/7, people naturally realize they have better things to do than to use social media all say.

Which is better for humanity, but bad for retention.

Damn this unearthed some memories, gotta check their channels out later

Why is the preview pic two politicians kissing aggresively

The only active AI feature is the automatic alt text one, and that’s entirely local. The second one is a sidebar that will just open AI chat websites, which you could already do by just, ya know, looking up the webpages the regular way. No data is getting sent anywhere so far.

I take it they finally moved on from 1990 in the government?

“But you are an English major”

Biologically and functionally speaking, he’s whatever and everything. Practically speaking, he chooses to have a dick and look like a big muscular man that looks nothing like his previous form (so its even more deliberate), so it seems the only thing that survived his ascention was his gender identity.

Wait I haven’t been keeping up since the ui refresh. What are they doing

This has been available for most of the year. What took any tech news org so long to even awknowledge its existence?

One day we’ll get VLC 4.

“Our users, who don’t have as much free time as they did during the pandemic, didn’t binge watch a 13 episode show, one hour per episode, the very day it came out like they did during lockdown? Cancel the show its a flop”

The only issue for Firefox’s translator currently is the time it takes to load at first, or the fact you have to download each model first. Its not some monumental task, but it does have more friction than Google’s “automatically send the site you are browsing to our server”

This is actually one of the few cases where it makes sense. Its for alt-text for people who browse with TTS

Isn’t it cause its the handle of the main dev?

Fucking Aquaman

Yeah, that’s odd. I could swear Google had something in its terms that specified you couldn’t mix its results with other search engines.