if your internet can handle the bandwith for cloud gaming app Luna can do wonders.

Why does Mozilla need ad dollars? Firefox is open source? If they don’t have a search engine what buisness do they feel thatvthey need this? Ads in Firefox potententially incoming??

If they would just stick with Firefox and nothing else they would be alright but they just keep doing things their userbase won’t like. They keep rissing their own expenses, for what? And wonder why no one uses Firefox. I wonder why.

The android app is about as clunky like Chrome even though it doesn’t need to be. Try other open source browsers like Lighting, which can view most modern sites and are just better made and don’t feel clunky and slugish.

The day they announced vpn services I dropped from Firefox. Because now its going to be more expensive for them. And they did more since then.

But hey, atleast we have Falkon browser. Except for being based on WebKit the browser itself isn’t currently maintained by an ad company.

Is Mozilla still nonprofit or are they changing their moto?

Where is the demand for ai on Firefox?

Now, Microsoft probably has not clearly and publically stated anything recently hinting this, but could they be doing this to train ai?

Sure you can say that is what copilot was for, but now they are putting files into OneDrive so now we are getting a step closer to that being a potential reality plus that Microsoft can access the files automatically. and who knows if they don’t have any hidden folders with some data on your OneDrive and we just wouldn’t know about.

Again not saying this is happening but Microsoft is just showing some sketchy signs.

One thing I’ll give Facebook credit for in the case of content moderation is, Facebook is not decentralized like the Fediverse compared to on Lemmy, Misskey or Mastodon and etc.

Facebook has a whole centralized platform to moderate with all users. Compared to the Fediverse this moderation can be tough and very expensive. Facebook would have to pay a lot of moderators.

There are some problems known to occur however

There are some things that can slip through but with all this ai training more companies are moving towards ai moderation over human moderation that should reduce moderation costs and their profitability.

Some content Facebook doesn’t seem to tackle unless a government complains to them, particularly if they know its something they know generates them money.

Boooo Microsoft Windows

I am interested in this concept of currency, looking forward to see it more in practice after this comes out. (i’m based in the u.s not the e.u)

Since you asked, and I commented on Lemmy about this before.

Back in the Windows XP and even Windows 7 days Microsoft was trying to sell computers to people. It had to convince people why computers are worth their time.

Fast forward to Windows 10 and now it’s, “ok we now got an audience that’s addicted to our operating system, lets see what we can get away with. We might lose like 1% to Linux and like 5% to mac doing some of these while most of everyone won’t switch at all. and we increase our profits.”

Microsoft could care less about your PCs resources when you’re idk, playing some 4k or even 8k video games. What a joke, but for real, if any of you use WIndows at home and don’t want to jump straight to Linux. You can (temporally jump over to Chromebooks, which will mostly work out of the box, and has support for Linux apps.

Chromebook’s I would argue are perfect for getting users use to Linux apps without having to worry about losing any familiarity they might have with Something like WIndows or Mac.

Someone mentioned Libby, which I used before I didn’t realized they did magazine subscriptions, and that they are free and legal.

I’m trying out subscribing to some of these. including tech life news, and wired. Something like this where it’s updated weekly with new news stories, but you have to wait to a certain time point to access is particularly what I was looking for, this might work out without having to use the newspaper.

Good point with Libby, i’l have to check some of the library apps.

I use to care, but then I just use Peertube. Oh but there’s not as much content on Peertube. Put the type of content you like on Peertube make a channel it is free. Another tip is, look for specific types of content, and not specific content creators. and if you happened to find a creator you know or knew, follow them on Peertube!

I have plenty of tech Peertube channels that keep me up to date on Peertube, and it’s a type of platform that will never have ads or go a direction I don’'t want it to as a whole in terms of federation of servers and being an opensource video platform.

Server can surely make some unwelcomed decisions, and I can just change servers easily. Better then Youtube no ads, and your experience does not get throttled.

Then other other alternatives.

I know, but that’s what the government will do when they want to try to weaken encryption, they’l give their arguments as to *why they want said law to pass to weaken it.

I’m not saying that’s what they *have to do. but rather, it’s what they do, tend to do. You are right, their are other ways they *can go about it using existing laws or legal metheds including warants. But that doesn’t mean that governments aren’t trying to just out right cripple encryption by passing laws, thay had many times before tried this in a notable amount of countries.

I understand why people must protect their encrypted messages at all costs. But the government and others are going to keep using arguments like, “what are people hiding,” or “what *could some people be doing to our children.”

I would had concern over internet forums disappearing back in 2015-2012, but now a days, I don’t worry as much. if it wasn’t being replaced by the fediverse. Well maybe not replaced, but it is an alternative that has some good activity surprisingly and still growing, thanks to Mastodons marketing. It’s like an upgraded forums. And everyone can communicate no matter where they go on the Fediverse.

I didn’t know there *were government-run dating apps. Something I can research about. But this is coming from a u.s perspective. So in other countries, this might be common knowledge within their territory I understand that.

I don’t understand why the deranked tutanota, Rumble I could understand why they might want to derank that one, for other reasons besides competitive reasons.

I don’t think many users are leaving Gmail for Tutanota, the users Google’s really making money from they don’t really care they use Google anyways. One user might use Tutanota to do something bad, but lets use that same scenario on Youtube, should Google derank Youtube now since a few users might do some bad things. Google wouldn’t want to do that.

It makes no sense because Tutanota, I don’t know enough about the devs behind it them but the email provider doesn’t necessarily scream right wing to me.

I’m just trying to think why Google would derank Tutanota. Their marketshare is fine. Unless they know something we don’t know about the market share of… email of all things.

Look, if the posts are on Meta’s own platform, and if they say, in their terms of service they say they are aloud to reuse your content to deliver you services while still keeping you the rights. I don’t think they are really doing anything illegal necessarily in the u.s.

Other countries absolutely should challenge this in court and find out if this is illegal I do believe the eu found out real quick.