Pick your sources, COMPLAIN if they do not publish an RSS feeds, and read "news" including posts from personal blogs, through an aggregator. At YOUR pace, without tracking and pushing.
While we are at this, wy/how is Twitch "completely unusable" ?h Just curious, really.
Sites should have rss but it's not social. There's no way for me to comment on your protocol. It's a syndication protocol: that's only part of a social system.
Not OP, and not points that make Twitch "unusable", but some changes that make it unpleasant:
- Really pushing softcore porn by putting their icons in the sidebar and over home page by default (they disappear once your stream viewing history is something other, but default behavior is to recommend it to all)
- Adding more noise to chat: Obnoxious particle effects once "enough people pay money to Amazon", highlighted flashy banners
- Overlays over the video that you can't turn off, makes the player very heavy, popups over the player that you have to click to close
- Autoplaying media on home page
- Strange inconsistent regulations of streamers (who/when they get banned and how long)
- Strange attempts at noisy virtue signalling - such as overlaying sombreros and maracas on emote images for "Hispanic celebration month", which is so unnecessary and comically unthoughtful
gonna have to switch back to RSS, you're right. know of any good basic RSS readers on Windows 10/iPhone that you'd suggest?
twitch is completely unusable btw because of the insane policy changes that make no sense, the unusable copyright rules (literally some streamers have had cars go by that played music slightly too loud for 2 seconds and had their accounts terminated over that), and the ads, oh my god the ads. even with uBlock Origin and pi-hole on Firefox, they still get through and there's upwards of 5-10 (and sometimes even on bigger streams 15!!!) 30 second adverts about every 15-30 minutes and everytime you switch streams. only way to block them is to use a VPN/proxy into a smaller country which doesn't yet have ads, and even then, you'll get the infamous "purple screen of death" where it'll close out the stream and tell you to disable your adblocker and proxy
Probably one of the worst Substack posts I've ever read. Waste of time.
The whole article can be summarized as "AI can't kill us because it can't access the physical world without human help. You are stupid if you think AI can kill us."
AI will *directly* kill us only if we are so STUPID to basically BEG it do it. There are many more reasons why AI is really dangerous, but only through our ignorance. I explained what I mean in a much longer answer to this very question that I published 2 weeks ago:
At least 2/3 major banks still allow full use of online banking from desktop computers, and at least in one case I know for sure it's 100% Linux compatible. You ALSO need the hardware thingy that generates new numeric codes every time you push its button, to get an authorization code to e.g. make payments. But no smartphone
"You'd be able to compartmentalize whatever content you choose to put out."
I wish this were mandatory.
On Twitter, when it still made sense to use it (no, it's not about Musk, it sucked by shadowbanning almost everybody who wouldn't pay well before Musk came), several people whom I should really follow for my work basically FORCED ME TO UNFOLLOW THEM, because:
- their work-related tweets were ACTUALLY important for MY job (papers they published, slides from their talks, professional conversations...)
- but they buried them under garbage, meaning every work tweet was lost in 20/30 other tweets about food porn, what movie they were watching, what shirt they got for Christmas, and tons of other totally personal, totally irrelevant shit that was impossible to filter out, all coming as one stream
No matter how relevant their work tweet were, extracting them from that endless drivel just was not worth the time.
read my comment again. It was not my choice. The people I mentioned were/are only on Twitter, it is either endure their non-work drivel on Twitter, or lose everything they say.
Above all, what I report is just an example of a general problem anyway. If they were only on LinkedIn, and mixing one work-related post every 50 about what cocktail they had last Saturday, what would "wanting LinkedIn, not Twitter, change"?
