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@Byter allowing illegal stuff *and* taking money doesn't bode that well for their longevity.

@Byter
DDG claims 13.5k existing bangs, and here's a form to add a new one https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
@SoftestVoid

@cassetti
That's risky, because the way you say it, I can check how you voted on things, and come have a serious discussion about your choices.
Much more interesting are technologies that allow to prove something, without divulging the details.

... Though again, those don't require blockchain
@alyaza @Poggervania @ComradeKhoumrag @GunnarRunnar

@eltimablo @throws_lemy @xilliah @rastilin what it removes from bing: tracking, and personalized results. I believe it also adds the bang search, which few if any other places have.

@Pinklink @kibiz0r and in the meantime, cryptocurrencies have power usage comparable to whole countries to do what they do (which is not terribly much).

@pranz @[email protected] @[email protected] indeed they seem not bad, thank you!

@ikkeT @[email protected] @[email protected] I currently have an old android phone with "IP Webcam" installed, but I'm running out of old phones 😅 And figuring out how to put a proper computer in that space to be able to use a webcam (which I probably would also need to get...) sounds like a hassle 😅

@smileyhead There are social and technical issues. Discoverability / visibility accross instances is an issue. Jumping on people that they use CW wrong is an issue. Moderation is an issue.
In that thread you have how those make minorities consider it too much hassle to be here.
I've talked to an artist for whom those were too much hassle to be here. Both are happy on bluesky apparently.

@barsoap
Both government and corporation, having a choice between having 30k users be reached by them, or having 3M people be reached by them, will choose the latter.
Most likely both government and corporation, having a choice between reaching 300k users and having to spend resources on maintaining an instance, and reaching 300k but not having to maintain an instance, will choose the latter.

@MossyFeathers
Also the folks on blue sky recently managed to bully Jack Dorsey into deleting his account there, for being, uh, too close to being Musk.
@iHUNTcriminals

@smileyhead
This thread talks about some of the reasons https://mstdn.party/@gwensnyder/111088343873242234
@UrLogicFails

@MutatedBass @ZeroCool I've seen somewhere mentioned that the batteries of EVs now 15+ years old didn't degrade that much, people still get a lot of range out of them.