The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up "

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

Day eight of #PrideMonth and it's time for some alternate timelines, multiverses, and histories that never were...

Come visit a (very) queer Berlin in Redfern Jon Barrett's "Proud Pink Sky," and then take a tour of the multiverse (preferably before it's destroyed) in Sander Santiago's "One Verse Multi."

https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2024/06/08/wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-pride/

Just had my first Nazi on Mastodon experience:

- It is apparently “objective” to hate #LGBTQ people
- We “infest” cultures (typical far-right dehumanising rhetoric)
- And the old classic, equating LGBTQ people with paedophilia

I’ve reported the account, but am still uncertain as to how Mastodon works with server rules, etc, and would appreciate any help. It’s one of the replies to this post I made:

https://mastodon.social/@Redfern/112563762064332668

Of course it’s an account with an anime avatar and “traditional” font