Alternative Social Media like mastodon or Bluesky are also pretty fractured

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No. They actually make that much money.

You can already today share a username instead of a phone number, this is just extra for signup.

This will have zero impact on the power of tech companies. Most people will just choose the algorithm, it’s just better. The only way to actually have impact is to allow people to know how their feed works and to change the algorithm.

The Chinese open source models are hosted everywhere for very cheap and they are very close to the performance of the newest models. No idea where growth for OpenAI and so on is supposed to come from

Burning gas is so extremely bad that even throwing away your old ICE car and buying a new electric car is better than driving the ICE car until it „falls apart“. This was the research finding in Switzerland, but this result was so unwelcome that the research got hidden away. https://www.republik.ch/2025/06/11/amtliche-selbstzensur