radio free fedi
@radiofreefedi@musician.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

A reminder the RFF directory of artists lives on and continues to grow at https://indieart.support/

It is the biggest consented list of fedi present artists around. Discover music, writing, spoken, and visual artists and THEIR preferred support links.

While original scope was heavily music and fedi, that is expanding more and more.

Message @hello or e-mail to be added. It's not automated as #community care is taken to not platform those who punch down.

#music #art #writing #search #directory
Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai

A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

Don't use Google for search.

#google#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#AISlop#CoryDoctorow #search #slop
Kagi HQ
@kagihq@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Our revamped News homepage is live! Discover top stories and curated categories front and center, making it easier than ever to stay informed with highlights, timelines, and more: https://kagi.com/news

Updated daily. Plus, a native mobile News experience is coming soon! 🗞️

#Kagi#Search#News

Screen recording of the redesigned Kagi news page, showing categories like "World, USA, Business, Technology, Science, Sports, Gaming" followed by a news feature on trade titled "Trump warns Canada of 35% tariffs amid USMCA talks". Below it is a summary of that story, followed by a list of articles with just titles and no excerts, and followed by a perspectives showing different facts as reported by various news sources such as Politico, The Globe and Mail, and DW. Towards the end of the section is "Highlights" which is a summary of the main talking points, and below that a section displaying a timeline of events in recent days. The video finishes showing a section called "did you know?" which says: "The United States and Canada exchange more than US $2 billion in goods and services every single day."
Screen recording of the redesigned Kagi news page, showing categories like "World, USA, Business, Technology, Science, Sports, Gaming" followed by a news feature on trade titled "Trump warns Canada of 35% tariffs amid USMCA talks". Below it is a summary of that story, followed by a list of articles with just titles and no excerts, and followed by a perspectives showing different facts as reported by various news sources such as Politico, The Globe and Mail, and DW. Towards the end of the section is "Highlights" which is a summary of the main talking points, and below that a section displaying a timeline of events in recent days. The video finishes showing a section called "did you know?" which says: "The United States and Canada exchange more than US $2 billion in goods and services every single day."
Arie van Deursen
@avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”

— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/

#cloudflare #contentcreators #crawler #ai #search
S38
@sab38@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@strypey

This also happened to me changing duckduckgo search back to google.

It didn't happen with Firefox so there is a bug somewhere. It might be interesting for someone to track this down. I doubt it was intentional, but could lead to finding other unexpected behavior.

My understanding is Fennec is a pure rebuild of Firefox without the firefox branding. There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior. Fennec is not one of those.

#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!

It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.

#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid