Yup, a lot of very sophisticated mobile malware does not have persistence. His advice holds up.
At the current usage, I really doubt it. If a significant amount of people start using RSS readers as an alternative to the third party clients they were using previously, it's a possibility.
This strikes me as very exploitative. Capitalizing on loneliness to enrich yourself gives me bad vibes (especially when the users of this thing may actually be worse off mentally in the end, as @cnnrduncan mentioned).
I have no doubts that for some users, it'll turn into a cycle. They'll feel lonelier each time they use it, which pushes them to use it more, and so on. I had the same feelings about Replika years before ChatGPT became a thing.
0.18 will also massively improve the user experience for y'all (whenever Beehaw updates). They ripped out the old websockets architecture, which eliminates all of the weird glitches like upvotes disappearing or random posts popping up in your feed.
Thanks for the post! Just defederated from my instance too, they violate our code of conduct.
No instance should allow misinformation or hate under the guise of "free speech".
improving.duckduckgo.com is not something they try to hide, you can easily disable it in your search engine settings. DDG was launched in 2008 and has a pretty solid track record - I think we can forgive the Names DB thing at this point.
Tesla FSD is generally being regarded as a joke, Twitter is being flooded by dozens (or maybe even more) lawsuits for nonpayment - it seems like maybe Neuralink/SpaceX are his only businesses that aren't doomed at this point?
I was a long time RedReader user before the API shenanigans. Honestly surprised to see it mentioned here, it'd be awesome to see Lemmy compatibility.
Very exciting! Jerboa is nice but it's always great to have alternatives.
My instance also experienced this. I'm the only active user (I made it a day ago), but the user count is up to 2K now. It stopped after I enabled captchas, but I want to remove these spam accounts so they don't cause issues elsewhere.
I don't even have a slight clue as to what I should look for in my database.
I think this might be true for iOS, isn't the case on Android.