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Meta is developing its own web search engine to make itself more independent of Google and Microsoft's Bing. The technology will primarily be used to feed the company's own AI chatbot with up-to-date information.

More competition against Google is good, but man another AI focused search engine is not what I would be hoping for.

I can imagine that the case where one engine saves you but the other could not is infinitely small. My unprofessional and uneducated take is use what's best for you, keep things up to date, and be careful what you click. Hope it was a good unexpected busy and not a bad unexpected busy.

No I mean things like sponsored by pocket and sponsored search results.

Firefox has ads by pocket on your homescreen and sponsored search results to name the two that come to my mind.

Brave did the affiliate link injection in 2020, but reversed and apologized shortly after. Similar to Mozilla's Mr robot thing, it seems to be a one off fuck up that they reversed and apologised for.

Mozilla has made donations to the Mack group who have expressed hatred towards people who are white. It's certainly less dangerous for a minority to spread hateful rhetoric to a majority, but rasicm is still racism, which is bad.

1 Get random error or have other tech issue

2 Certainly private search engines will be able to find a solution (they cannot)

3 Certainly non private search engines can find the solution (they can not)

4 "Chat GPT, the heck is this [error code or something]" Then usually I get a correct and well explained answer.

Read the article by wired previously and it rubbed me the wrong way. I don't doubt that there are Nazis using it, but I also don't doubt that there are Nazis driving ford cars and I know a big chunk of fediverse traffic is Nazis. Outside of the comment from the SimpleX developers there wasn't any mention of it just being a tool, with plenty of traffic not even going through SimpleX hosted servers. Seems like it was meant to make readers think Nazi when they heard SimpleX. As apposed to reporting on Nazis moving from one tool to a better tool, e.g. Chevys got recalled so many people, some Nazis, bought fords instead.

Unfortunately, if everybody goes there the bots will follow.

What, disinformation from a government? I'm shocked, shocked I say.

There was already a wave of bots identified iirc. They were identified only because:

1 the bots had random letters for usernames

2 the bots did nothing but downvote, instantly downvoting every post by specific people who held specific opinions

Turned into a flamware, by the time I learned about it I think the mods had deleted a lot of the discussion. But, like the big tech platforms, the plan for bots likely is going to be "oh crap, we have no idea how to solve this issue." I don't intend to did the admins, bots are just a pain in the ass to stop.

Depends on your price point, but the 8a might be a good middle ground. It's got the 8 year update support and is second to newest so it's a tad cheaper.

https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/376830/Add-any-RSS-feed-to-any-Lemmy-community

You might be able to integrate into lemmy by adding your podcast rss into a lemmy community made for your podcast. Lemmy users could subscribe to the community and follow/discuss there. Feels like a redundant suggestion if your cms already supports activity pub, but as far as lemmy integration that's the only way I can think might work.