Getting people to switch is honestly a little complicated. People haven’t switched to Mastodon because the accounts they follow aren’t on Mastodon, but the accounts aren’t on Mastodon because the people who follow them aren’t there.

If you want to help, it might be beneficial to reach out to the accounts you follow and tell them you’d like to see them on Mastodon too.

I just want you to make an informed decision mate

Not directly, but you’re contributing to the profit of the platform.

So you’ll keep giving money to Musk because X is convenient?

I haven’t done it in decades, so I don’t know if it’s changed, but there used to be an option called flying standby. You’d buy a ticket without a seat assigned, and you’d just go to the gate and wait to see if a flight went to your destination with an empty seat you could claim. It was cheaper, but no guarantee of getting a flight.

Yeah, for some reason I was thinking you were trying to say that bolting on widgets made it no longer a search engine.

I see, you’re splitting the UI from the backend as two different things, and Im seeing them as parts to a whole.

then send them to the user to be displayed

This is where my understanding breaks. Why would displaying it as a summary mean the backend process is no longer a search engine?

Maybe I just don’t know what “generating results” means. You query a search engine, and it generates results as a page of links. I don’t understand how generating a page of links is fundamentally different from generating a summation of the results?

What do you mean its not generating the results? If the summation isn’t generated, wheres it come from?

I had to tell DDG to not give me an AI summary of my search, so its clearly intended to be used as a search engine.

I generally agree then. Personally, I feel like we should focus more on individualized care needs and not so much on demographics, since differences between individuals are far greater than differences between demographics. Good doctors already allow personal needs to override any demographic-based assumptions, but it’s still unfortunately common to find bias in medicine.

Your example of blue eyes not being scientific racism came across as defending RFK’s stance, so my apologies if I misread. I am against denying care to anybody for any reason.

The problem is that RFK is essentially saying that, not that you said it. Genetic differences shouldn’t be used as a “reason” to deny people proper medical care.

Nah, the problem is extrapolating that into “dark eyes don’t need sunglasses”.

If y’all want to burn the white house down again, I’ll bring marshmallows for us to roast on the flames.

In the US it’s technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.

Yeah, we absolutely need to start with worker rights. I think part of the problem is that we in America have been on the nationalist train for so long that we’re simply unaware of how good it could be.

It’s nuts that people over here think my state law of 1 hour PTO awarded for every 40 hours worked is too much of a burden for employers.

How does missing work help the climate? Genuine question, but I’ve been fired when a car broke down over the weekend, and I couldn’t get another one before Monday. I don’t see how it was better that I wound up spending the money I was saving for an electric car on an old junker so I didn’t miss rent and get evicted.

Edit: Just tell me you don’t have an answer instead of downvoting, this isn’t Reddit.

On the flip side, they’ve got plenty of excuses they can use, I’mma smoke my weed, haha