MangoCats

Uh, no, those are the normal well adjusted people, I'm talking about the psychotics that still support it.

5+ years back Trumpettes threw around the label TDS at Trump detractors, saying they couldn't see reality due to their rage...

Whatever you call it, however you see it, there is significant mass psychosis associated with our nutcase-in-chief.

For what it's worth, I looked around and saw "ready to run" Mastodon hosting services starting at $6 per month, not too long ago. Tempting, but the service is the easy part, maintaining the community can be much more challenging.

I suspect Tor Browser would fork and soldier on if Firefox became an unsuitable base.

True, but everyone paying for "broadband internet" is paying that premium for the fat pipes to carry video on demand.

The communication, socialization and creation space might use less than 10% of the bandwidth, less than 0.1% if you take video out of it.

Not to mention: the old people (the ones with money) can't see them.

Flip phones with 7 day battery life, including 20 hours of talk time?

To an extent, the enshittification of the most popular platform is inevitable.

Depends on which way the Firefox ditchers jump - jumping to Chrome, yeah... not great. Jumping to more privacy respecting options... it's your data, you should be able to choose (if you care...)

I read the new language to mean: they are going to record your input streams and feed them to AI/LLM - thereby recording your previously private info that they used to discard and protect. Up to you, I use Chrome because it integrates well with the gmail account I've used for 25+ years and I appreciate the "login anywhere and get your same setup" functionality, as well as the ability to nuke remote login sessions.

Google photos has been "searchable by name" for years now. Tell it the name of a face in one photo and it can go search (pretty successfully) through all your photos for other photos containing that person. And, of course, once told, it never forgets.

Is it still a service when you are the product? Or, are you being served? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

Depends on how you measure things. If you pie-chart the internet by bandwidth used, most of it is currently used for TV 2.0 (streaming video, mostly by subscription.)