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@taylorlorenz some points
You aren't being manipulated by the platform or coerced into impulsive behaviour, although you can still trap yourself into it.
It's often a bit of a mess but it's "our mess", the sense of ownership has some legitimacy.
It only dies when people don't want it any more, not when investors want their payday.
The "low virality" means anyone is as big a deal as anyone else.
It's slower, but it's also more relaxed.
Being bad for marketing has its upside.
@jaffathecake @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs
And I'm not angry at you personally, if anything I'm angry on behalf of all the people just trying to make a good browser. At the people who insist on AI in the face of no evidence that current users want it, or that it will realistically win away Chrome users or similar.
@jaffathecake @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs
I'd class Fedi as having a high representation of people who care about software, ethics and the intersection of the two. I would call that useful.
Also I see myself in the comment about it being populated by the kind of people who have been recommending Firefox since before Chrome existed, but are now feeling alienated by Mozilla's decisions.
Am I really going to go into settings every time a new AI flag pops up, or am I going to run Zen?
