@saramg Geez.

If he was even half as smart as he was confident, he'd not only have realized whom he was talking to, but that Signal doesnt have a business model - or at least not in the sense that the other services he compared it to, do.

That is to say, Signal is funded by charity, and does not have a profit motive (so yeah, like donate if you use it and you can).

@CursedSilicon @saramg @soatok

yeah non profit equals non revenue everyone knows that duhhh

everyone at every nonprofit goes and digs through dumpsters on their lunch breaks. it is known

@CursedSilicon @saramg @soatok

In fairness, it could be that Bill Mitchell here (side note, either that's a really unfortunate coincidence of name, or he either is or is impersonating _that_ Billy Mitchell, which would explain everything about his behavior) is taking the (reasonable IMO) stance that while Signal's president isn't lying per se when she says Signal will never have LLM integration, that doesn't mean some factors in the future will not cause it to happen anyway. Cory Doctorow put it much better than I could when he explained why he wouldn't be joining Bluesky: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

To summarize that post, Doctorow is on a first name basis with many of the Bsky devs, and he trusts them implicitly. He does not, however, trust that, if push came to shove and a VC made them an offer they couldn't refuse, they still wouldn't enshittify Bluesky if it was that or run out of money and shut down.

@CursedSilicon
I would suggest implementing AI features exclusively for Bill's account

@saramg @soatok

@violenteastcoastcity @saramg
😂
😳
so funny and disturbing at the same time
there are so many fools around,
most distressing is that they speak up aloud

makes me wonder, what went wrong with them,
do they miss a gen, are smoked funny things, fell off a table ...