StackExchange Inc's deal with OpenAI is extremely frustrating, and users are being left without much recourse.
the story is already hitting the tech press, but much of it is missing important details and context about how StackExchange sites are run, not to mention the history of organised protest against SEI's pro-LLM stance.
I wrote a bunch about it here, in case anyone is interested in learning more about the situation and its impact:
@foxyoreos@soatok@gsuberland I've always been puzzled why anyone would volunteer their finite free time as a mod for a fully for profit corporate web corporation.
I've done modding but only for free and autonomous projects. It's a thankless task. I'd never do it again.
The really sad thing is the move from specialist run forums to single point of failure stack* type properties. #ExpertsExchange has been mentioned. #Github should be added to list of bad faith organizations.
When you write hashtags that contain multiple words, make the first letter of each word a capital letter, for example #DogsOfMastodon. This will make the tag readable to blind people.
Blind people use the internet through screen reader apps, which read text out aloud. By putting a capital at the start of each word in a hashtag, you are telling the screen reader how to say the tag correctly.
In the non-techy world this is generally known as "CamelCase".
@feditips it helps quite a bit with dispelling ambiguity as well. Prior to them adding a hyphen to their URL it was quite humorous explaining to people that #ExpertsExchange was in fact a tech site and not a shady fly-by-night pseudo-medical site XD