Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.
Ich habe gerade gespendet.
Normalerweise ignoriere ich ihn ja, aber ich hatte am 27.12. Geburtstag. Spenden an den Kältebus wären ein ideales Geschenk
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I like that Firefox is (through @npub1dpjj...e0jl) communicating. But the point is not really if you can disable the features TBH.
I think the problem is how Firefox/Mozilla is perceived: Putting a whole lot of resources into AI gambles (that the community does not seem to be too thrilled about to say the least) while seemingly losing all focus on the Open Web as something to work on, strengthen and defend. Especially with Google/Chrome's dominance.
The new CEO coming in and just hammering "AI" while never talking about how exactly those systems can only exist by harming the open web is a bad sign.
It's not so much about distrust of the engineers working on Firefox and them adding a switch or not. It's about a communicated vision that seemingly pushes aside all the things people want Firefox to exist for.
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I think this piece from January was my favourite thing I wrote this year.
In which I argue that "scale" is a brain work that makes it harder for us to built a humane Internet.
"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @npub1vj2t...xpte 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.
"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)
I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.
