Think of “Google News”, but for social media and RSS… Or Google Reader for all of those.

The point isn’t to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.

Thanks! I’ve not seen this before, gonna go look into it :)

Pretty sure flatpak uses alpine as a bootstrap… Flatpak, after all, brings along an entire distro to run an app.

chat bots have been a thing, for a long time. I mean, a half decently trained Markov can handle social media postings and replies

Oh no…

Anyways, another reason why to use Qt rather than GTK for your app.

Sounds like very late stage capitalism to me…

They just did the speed run past us.

Effective was a requirement.

You’re forgetting the (often) free labor used to make changes like this are limited.

I, for example, did not get paid for the 20 hrs/week I was putting into the organization, as I was also a board member, their IT person, and for a couple of periods, board president…

Its a cost/benefit analysis.

Your definition of organic traffic is off-standard.

Fair.

The VAST majority of the web would have almost no traffic without web searches. It’s not like people flock to sites from talking about it around the water cooler.

Which is a shame, tbh. We had far better content, when people had to work to create good content, that others wanted, and got passed around.

ie, in school, before search engines, we all knew about Whitehouse.com… We all knew the sites that had the info we wanted/needed at the time.

In fact, I’d argue the downfall of the web as an actual useful tool came about once search engines automatically started indexing, rather than submitting site maps to a page like OpenDirectory to have your site cataloged, indexed, and sorted into appropriate categories by a human.

Because once people started working on “gaming algos” rather than “Making super good content”, the internet just became the new “Malls” where you weren’t expected to learn, you were just expected to buy.

Nah, you just scrape chatgpt.

I don’t pay right now to hor their chat app, so I’d just integrate with that.

Not very hard to do, tbh, with curl or a library like libcurl.

If so, it appears to the search engine crawler that you have lots of content to be indexed, so it probably would move your page ranking up.

You don’t want to NOT show up in search queries right?

At this point?

I am fully ok NOT being in search engines for any of my sites. Organic traffic has always been much more valuable than inorganic traffic.

The poisoned images work very well. We just haven’t hit the problem yet, because a) not many people are poisoning their images yet and b) training data sets were cut off at 2021, before poison pills were created.

But, the easy way to get around this is to respect web standards, like robots.txt

Serving a pipe from ChatGPT into and AI scraping your site uses little server resources.

Yep, it’s viable now for many orgs…

This is probably much closer to discord than Zulip is, tbh. I never knew about it previously :)

And you chose to reply to my comment, attacking a strawman that you yourself created.

And yes, this entire post is about MS, aka OpenAI being bigly mad someone took “their” work, copied it, and passed it off as their own. The literal exact same thing MS, aka OpenAI did.

You not liking the tech has fuck-all to do with the topic.

You opinions of what the topic are have fuck all to do with the actual topic.

What would be the unlazy, creative, and effective strategy?

BTW, remaining where our community members are is very effective at messaging to the community we need to communicate with…

Better. I’d say its fully on par with Discord, minus the dark patterns. There’s a public Zulip instance where you can check it out.

If we’re swapping out discord, please just go with Zulip… It’s FLOSS, and has a solid company backing it that actually cares about FLOSS (They even bought the product back, after it was sold to a company that was enshittifying it)/