Honestly, it’s more about people than super heroes if get what I mean, the dialogues were so good that I often thought I was watching some animation of real conversations

To be fair, the IP is basically the only thing they can get, due their encryption they have access to the email body, which complies with privacy, but not anonymity.

True, I don’t think that applies to a FOSS centric community like lemmy tho, nothing wrong with that, it’s just that I think that the wrong expectations are in place, I could be wrong ofc

That’s not the problem, as long as one lives in a society, one is bound to participate in it, willingly or not.

If you do not use, someone else will, and sooner or later you will consume something made by said person.

Just “not using it yourself”, won’t cut it.

do you also organize dishes by type so it looks more reasonable, then proceed to wash only the easier stuff and leave the hard ones lying around for an unhealthy amount of time?

Jesus, I don’t know who hurt you or why you are so salty like that.

I’ll stop the conversation here, funnily enough, the way you keep repeating the same thing in a different way is just like AI.

My best wishes to you.

How would I search something I don’t know how it’s called? As I explained the AI is just responsible to tell me “hey this thing X exists”, and after that I go look for it on my own.

Why am I a moron? Isn’t it the same as asking another person and then doing the heavy lifting yourself?

^(edit: typo)

I’m no AI fan by any means, but it’s really good at pointing directions, or rather, introducing you to topics that you didn’t know how to start researching.

I often find myself asking: “Hey AI, I want to do this very specific thing but I don’t really know what it is called, can you help me?”. And sure enough I get the starting point, so I can close that down and search on my own.

Otherwise, trying to learn anything in depth there is just a footgun.

^(edit: typo)

1. profit
2. hivemind

big changes are HARD to come by

Definitely people, AI doesn’t do anything by itself, it’s a soulless tool.

Don’t get me wrong, I tried the switch, multiple times.

Where I live the vast majority uses pre-paid plans that give internet bandwidth, some calls but hardly no SMS, so that’s not an alternative, unless in an emergency or you want to contact someone unilaterally.

If I want someone to use it, they will have to convince their other circles to do the same, which statically decreases the chances of switching, and you get things like: “but we’re already talking fine on Whats (whatsapp)”, “it’s too much trouble to have another app just for you”, “I don’t care who’s behind the app, its works fine”.

To add salt to injury, many places (like stores, restaurants, salons, etc), have WhatsApp as the main communication method, some companies will even have the option to update you on things like delivery or banking solutions via WhatsApp.

It’s something so ingrained in our culture at this point that is super hard to change.

I’m not looking for solutions here, just stating a sad state of affairs, I like privacy but it’s not always an option living in society.

My trouble as well, I’d love to switch from Whatsapp, but literally every person I talk to and most people in my city/estate/country uses It.

There’s a “vendor lock” term, maybe this would be a “social lock”?