I don’t know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It’s exactly what authors do. This is about money.

As others have said, it still works and works really well.

https://teddit.net/

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Teddit.

I have only ever read about 20 subs on Reddit and I’ve never had an account there. I use Teddit to read them for stuff that hasn’t made it to Lemmy yet.

Silvio Berlusconi.

40%. That’s nearly a whole cheek.

lol There’s often a fair bit of waxing involved.

It says “no fully exposed” arse pix. What percentage of exposed derrière is acceptable? Asking for a friend.

Impressive.

As someone who has spent years extolling the virtues of Matrix/Element to family members I can assure you that there is no known rebuttal to the phrase “but I don’t care about privacy”. All it needs is to visit a site and sign up. No software required whatsoever. Good luck with GitHub and your ageing aunt or gobby nephew.

Or just download the full fat version from an overseas server run by the company making the product. Expecting the general populace to compile stuff is a little bit optimistic. We’re talking about a country where most people don’t know what a socket outlet is called or the difference between desktop wallpaper and a screensaver.

This is irritating. I use Nitter once a week to check if someone’s still alive. If I see them posting crap I know they’re still breathing.

I think you’re probably correct.

As someone that never had a Reddit account* but still read about 18 subs on a daily basis (via Teddit) I was a bit sceptical about the value of signing up for Lemmy. So far, so excellent. It reminds me of the newsgroups I used to frequent 25 years ago. Big enough to be useful, small enough to be comfortable.

*I never had a Facebook or MySpace account either. I used Twitter for a year about a decade ago but it all seemed a bit “look at me” for my taste.

Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.

Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.

/r/firefox now looks like this.

Don’t worry, your utopian vision of streets full of closed shops and associated tumbleweed will be here soon enough.

If I have a to-do list of, say, ten items I pick the easiest one first and do that. Just making a dent in the list makes further progression easier. Never start with a task that you’re unlikely to complete.

Anyone that buys anything from Amazon is also part of the problem. Support your local bookshop while you still can.

Nup. You?

Er, yes, that was the story.