Mastodawn

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

I use Firefox for my main browser, Kagi for my search, Apple and Fastmail (the latter paid) for mail, an Apple phone, and LLMs that aren't Gemini. I'm pretty sure none of it matters. If it did, Chrome wouldn't be the top browser, and Google wouldn't be so popular that it's a verb. An organization I volunteer with runs on Google, as does my employer. No matter what we do, people choose the convenient, popular, and easy, and it's hard to blame them. Google may well win this.

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Alex Hall

That's not an indictment of anyone. If I avoided everything that goes against my beliefs, I'd probably be vegetarian, use a FairPhone, and avoid Wal-Mart and Amazon. Instead, I eat meat, I use an iPhone, and I got a grocery delivery from Wal-Mart an hour ago. Sometimes it's accessibility, sometimes it's cost, sometimes it's convenience, but we all go along with most things and pick a few stances to focus on. For most people, none of those stances include avoiding Google and LLMs.