<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://firefish.city/@DavidBHimself" class="u-url mention">@<span>DavidBHimself</span></a></span> Yeah, agree. </p><p>There are certainly people who got burned with social media and the consequences of having a part of their life out for people to search on, but everyone needed to sign up, pick a cute avatar, write some sort of intro and then push &quot;post&quot; or &quot;toot&quot; or whatever for every single update.</p><p>I don&#39;t have to read the legalese on my server or be &quot;shocked&quot; and &quot;gobsmacked&quot; by its contents, because I know full well that what I post will somehow survive me out on the Internet.</p>

I just can't with the "consent champions" on social media anymore. You're a public social media, people interacting with you is the point. If you don't want that, you're in the wrong place. You gave your consent the moment you signed up. You gave your consent a second time the moment you published your post as "public." Stop being silly just for the sake of appearing more progressive than you are. #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Consent

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> cause you&#39;re used to using search engines where the advertisers are the customers, not you</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> OG Quora was fantastic, esp. Alon Amit&#39;s math answers</p>

<p>The number and breadth of extremely mainstream businesses who aren&#39;t afraid to participate in Rhode Island PrideFest is wonderful, given the way companies have been targeted just for acknowledging basic human rights. Nice to live here.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@rwxrwxrwx" class="u-url mention">@<span>rwxrwxrwx</span></a></span> It nailed my first few queries, so I was sold. Ironically, my first query (that has always been hard for Google) was to a site on blogspot…which is owned by Google. Amazing.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> Just the idea of being able to up/downvote sites made me give it a try, and as of this evening, I&#39;m a paying customer. I did a sample search, got a bunch of tripadvisor hits at the top, immediately lowered it, and wondered why I haven&#39;t been able to do this all along.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> It&#39;s worth the money, IMHO</p>

<p>OMG Google, you&#39;re desperate. What you just did is exactly *why* I just started to pay for Kagi.</p>