Anyone blindly saying a tool is ineffective for every situation that exists in the world is a tool themselves.

Tell me where in this thread are anyone expecting privacy from any online LLM service, or anyone saying encrypted traffic guarantees privacy?

Yes, so not only are they doing something shady, they’re doing something shady and exposing your data to anyone wanting to snoop it. What’s dumb about criticising the latter part?

But with less people, the chance of you finding the subsets that interests you or fit your interests better is much lower, and that’s one of the main issue.

And that’s fine. What the exodus to Bluesky is doing is making it easier for people to stomach switching to similar platforms, so if Bluesky also went to shit, the inertia is much lower for people to abandon it.

And how many users does Mastodon have?

What about censoring " x ". That might help filter more posts.