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This is genuinely terrifying

It’s a pretty popular writing software, though you mainly hear about it in writing circles so that might be why you never heard of it.

I was devastated to learn the creators intended it to be pronounced “jif” like the peanut butter brand

That’s fair. I feel like bloat would be the wrong term to use in regards to a search engine though 😅

That’s…really bad 😭 Even Mastodon allows you to search by hashtags (I know it supports full-text search but most instances turn that off because it’s pricey)

His apology “for the pain his donation in support of prop 8 caused” was also kind of undercut by following up by calling criticism of his views as a “political litmus test”.

He’s shocked that his support of a political organization makes people think that he agrees with their movement and he gets criticized for holding those views?

Wait why would the search engine be the bloat part?

Threads had no discovery features?! Jesus Christ…

Fwiw this is about Brave Search, not the Brave Browser

I kept hearing about Akkoma but never really knew what it was. Thank you for sharing!

Damn. I was considering checking out Calckey…

I mean there are probably other instances but it still sucks

It’s pretty shitty for a company to force someone to use a phone app or go to something as vital as a bank just because they won’t let the customer access the website. And there are plenty of reasons why someone wouldn’t be able to go to the bank in person every time they needed to, or at least it’d be extremely inconvenient to (especially for small things like checking your balance or transactions). Not everyone has a phone either.

Change your email provider? Run your own email like people should?

I’ve never deleted my email before but I’m pretty sure that means losing access to your entire inbox that you’ve likely had for years and having to update your contacts, the emails for all the accounts you have under it, etc. And being blocked from the website means you won’t be able to do any of those things through the official website. Does device atteststion prevent you from accessing your email through third party clients?

Also, it’s not exactly easy or practical to host your own email. And for many people that would mean spending money on servers. I read a blog post last year of someone who gave up hosting their own email after 23 years doing so.

Isn’t that a common symbol for all medical related things?

Apple stopped giving their new products the"i" prefix because they weren’t able to trademark it because “you can’t trademark a letter.”

I doubt that they’ll allow Elon Musk to trademark the letter “x”

Wait that meme format was Crowder?!

rip

This made me feel pain

the cat looks so sad 😭

This is so fucking funny. I got to rule 9 before I ran out of pati but I’ll have to play more of it later.

I was curious about Calckey/Firefish, I’m even more curious now haha.