I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to openly and honestly play by the rules just to be shamed out of your project, just to let big tech take the cake anyway.
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After shutting down #HolosDiscover, we're rethinking the approach with #HolosIndex: users explicitly opt in by adding #HolosIndex to their bio with interest tags, then submit their profile. -
After shutting down #HolosDiscover, we're rethinking the approach with #HolosIndex: users explicitly opt in by adding #HolosIndex to their bio with interest tags, then submit their profile.I totally agree. Their criteria was already very respectful, and motivated, native tools for the fediverse need leeway to work, grow and let the whole ecosystem grow.
Restricting them for some imaginary moral high ground, the only thing that accomplishes is letting the big tech corpos that don't give a shit about your feelings in the first place to use that space, instead of reclaming it for open solutions. AI training is already digesting all those already public posts they're gatekeeping.