Yeah this screams "Let's use AI for the sake of using AI". If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine
- The official Pixelfed app just has a nicer looking UI
- There's not really a competing app for people leaving Insta like there is Bluesky vs Mastodon
- Pixelfed's content is mostly visual so it's easily digestible to casual users and you don't have to scroll past dry Fedi arguments
- Better discover features so users don't have to do a bunch of legwork to find who to follow
Just my guesses though, but like any social media it really depends on if big creators will switch and if users stick with it over time
It's always the same "free speech" they're being censored for
Even after Automattic acquired it, the site continued to lose money at a rate of $30 million each year, the company’s CEO Matt Mullenweg had said.
I still wanna know what they're spending all that money on, because I'm sure it's not developers or even servers. The idea that they can only be profitable if they're constantly growing their user numbers is an investor idea that's doomed to fail eventually and why so many social media sites are crashing right now
TL;DR: right-wing hand-wringing over the app "turning the kids trans and lowering their IQ"
The author also has articles defending Israel and complaining about "woke ideology" if you need any more reason to skip it
That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.
You think a corporation would do that? Just go in front of the FTC and lie?
More issues caused by features no one asked for but done anyways so investors can see "growth"
Feels very much like they're just following the trend of a bunch of streaming services that just add a + to the end. As long as it's good though I don't think it matters much
IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.
So it's less effective than a regular phishing email?
The older I get the more I realize just how much Bill Watterson was right about everything
Need more places that sell this in the US