If they can get rid of all the extremist propaganda I’ll probably go with them. So tired of places like Hexbear and Lemmygrad, they’re 100% killing the fediverse.
I got this reply from Ernest recently concerning spam and other things, including a coming major update. Want to talk about bugs...I couldn't see any of the replies to my post unless I opened it logged out/incognito. Let's appreciate that this barely alpha coding has been a lot more stable than the first days and wait to see what the update fixes and breaks.
Wait, what? I'm on kbin.social and I almost never see hexbear stuff. Why would blocking that instance not work? I blocked the grad like my second day here.
So it’s been out for about 8 years on PC? I haven’t used it once, it’s among the things I deactivate on a new install with external tools. These voice assistants are a privacy nightmare and I would never place one in my home, let alone control my PC with it on a daily basis.
For me, Cortana wasn’t even available in my country. It still isn’t. And Microsoft slowly pulling its plug smells like the plain old “implementation issue” that Microsoft historically has with vanguard products
I don’t understand why they say federation as a whole is the problem. They can always defederate specific instances if they don’t like their moderation practices, so why think about leaving federation all together? That would imply that most big instances don’t moderate properly, which I don’t think is the case.
Yeah we all understand that they want quality content but its getting ridiculous on their part, its not that hard to moderate if you get some Mods. And if its that hard to moderate it may be because guidelines are either to strict or straight up ridiculous…
They probably are fairly strict, and from my experience the moderators / admins are fairly opinionated on a lot of topics, so it’s hard to grow a large, like-minded community.
I really do hope they manage to stick around in the fediverse though even if that means they will have to isolate themselves a lot. I think the fediverse will be much stronger and better if communities like beehaw can manage to exist in it.
Idk, beehaw isn’t the most important thing and i get wanting to grow your stuff, but beehaw is like someone planting a forest of just one specific tree and they kill every other tree, its becoming a echo chamber like hexbear and Lemmygrad where they just keep radicalizing each other.
You can have narrow and niche interest communities and echo chambers without it being “radicalizing” each other. They can just all be very interested in this one type of tree, and that’s fine be me.
Best example of this is in the urbanism space IMO, where we frequently speak highly of various cities and regions due to their amazing designs and infrastructure, but there’s not much mention that there’s more to a city than that - such as the job market, housing affordability, services, crime, etc…
Isn’t it weird that these companies all thought that we would speak and listen to a cortana/siri/alexa/google in the future while sitting in front of a PC. I mean those are multibillion dollar companies and they all create products that normally go through tough focus-group testings, customer analytics rounds and beta groups. They all apparently thought that this would in fact be the new Oil and the way people want to interact with a PC/Device. I dont get how they could have been so wrong. They must have knew that the focus groups do not respond well. There is absolutely no way the feedback of the cortana test group was like „they all loved it! They all want to open windows explorer via cortana and browse the web asking her stuff“. Fucking billion dollar company including it into the task bar. And now removing it again. I can’t get over it how wrong they were about what their customers want. If they failed that hard on this turf, what else did they try to push without zero vetting? What was the grand schene here? Sucking up voice data? Voice profiles? Training a database? Fear of missing out?
So weird seeing big companies all believing together in such a myth and only finding out after. And now they tell us AI is the next big thing that will change everything… I bet Windows 12 will have an AI feature that will be removed in Windows 15.
My guess is, they killing cortana because of their copilot software, which is basically the same - but better. They would heave to maintain basically the same product, so they dumped it.
As i see it, using a computer, smartphone or any other device with your voice has a lot of benefits and is used a lot around the world. But it is used in a different scenario than a mouse/keyboard is used and i’m pretty sure they are aware of it. Even they don’t see people sitting at their desk talking to their computer all day long.
I agree, they will probably kill off copilot in the next few OS and replace it with something different. They want to be competitive with software from other vendors, so they jump to the “next new thing”.
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