You make a good point.

Hell yeah, comrade!

Or, if you decide you MUST use corporate social media, put it behind a secure web browser and isolate your use to only social media.

I can’t be sure it works 100%. I can just hope Brave and Google have competing interests for me.

But best to stop patronizing those platforms as best you can.

What if anything do you do to try to mitigate it?

You make a really good point here. However, is that same anti-indexed nature a boon in the era of Ai site scraping.

It definitely let people create insulated pockets. Is there a chat app that doesn’t do that? Telegram?

Discord was talking about going public, probably changing their profit incentives. My group and I were talking about setting up a Rocket Chat if that happened. But it has to have IRC compatibility, right? Can IRC provide real-time audio communications? Discord is a failover when in-game communication isn’t working for some reason.

I keep an eye for engaging content on reddit and just rip it here. Mastodon and I think even BlueSky ran on repost bots in the early days. People have to find stuff here first.

I think, though, I stuck a Leminal Space link in my bio or upvoted a Luigi and got banned. So, not sure if you can directly link to Leminal over there or not.

This is unironically on reddit right now. People lamenting a place like Lemmy doesn’t exist.

I’m less worried about Discord, honestly.

I’ve been pretty happy with it as my casual web search browser, putting all my social media on a different browser. And it’s in F-Droid, so that always feels good.