I know, but more people left Twitter after it became X, for example, so migration is totally possible.

I like your action-oriented thinking! However, I’m not complaining; I’m warning and inquiring. I also didn’t name/target any particular project; I was just thinking about the relative size of the two orgs and I find myself just generally living in the FOSS space and trying to encourage it as much as possible over for-profit in today’s era of hyper-greedy capitalists, more and more.

I posted here first to check why people aren’t moving before bothering to assist with migrations myself, and I’m glad I did because I’ve come to agree that due to Git’s distributed system, it’s generally not worth it and is probably good enough for devs to pack their bags quickly enough should Microsoft pull any further shenanigans. Should that day come, sure, I’d be happy to help!

I didn’t know the repo space was that different. That does play a factor in all this…

True, I always look for cross-platform ones whenever possible…

Hmm, good point… I am an avid bug reporter…

I must’ve missed this meme if this is some sort of repeat.

Ha, if only that were the truth. I keep preaching over there and telling people to check out /r/RedditAlternatives, at least, so I like to think that I’ve moved at least one person over, which makes it all worthwhile.

Wait, is “cope” some kind of new insult?

Huh? I am aware; I didn’t say “all Linux projects,” did I? Of course I already know that there are already some on Codeberg and elsewhere, but I still wanted to address the behemoth.

It’s not the shipping; it’s the return policy. Amazon’s is almost impossible to beat apart from certain in-person stores like Costco or perhaps ALDI.

Fair, but what about the Copilot-pockmarking? And they’re always one step away from a paywall… Why wait until it gets that bad versus at least duplicating elsewhere now?

Oh… shoot… TIL, thanks!

Waterfox and Floorp here!

This feels accurate…

But what have you specifically learned from it to now be able to do if you no longer had it? That’s the question…

it was closed because it’s the same question that was asked 20 other times, and all the solutions don’t actually work.

This has absolutely been my experience as well, yeah. I rarely go straight to LLMs first but sometimes I’m not comfortable with simply posting my problem on Reddit and waiting (or posting on Lemmy and waiting forever lol), since it isn’t always that simple or convenient to first anonymize data before getting public help, nor do people even always reply, leaving me back to square one with time wasted. I am by far the techiest person in my company (and I barely know anything relative to full-time programmers), so there sure isn’t anyone at work who I could ask for help, haha.

I don’t go to LLMs often, and they sure messed up a lot even just 2 years ago, but they’ve come an impressively long way from the unintelligible-text and six-fingers era (despite still occasionally messing up nowadays) and have legitimately optimized my formulae dramatically in both function and legibility, such as by showing me LET() that I didn’t even know existed. While I’ve been meaning to take an online course on spreadsheets and just haven’t gotten around to it yet, I try to learn from how the model did XYZ right away but it’s nice to have a personal, on-demand tutor, as long as you’re always aware of the fact that what it says could be garbage, despite it speaking so confidently. I think for actual, entire vibe-coded products, it’s much harder to learn what the heck it’s doing versus just simple one-liners. Anyway, on-device and FOSS LLMs make for better compromises, I think, though their quality is noticeably poorer.

The reason I try to avoid “AI” use is not The Dumbening™ but because of the ecological impact, yet I contend that spending hours and hours trying to traditionally solve a problem in frustration is also harmful in its own ways… It’s a decent tool of last resort and the Stupids are merely the ones treating it as a line of first defense against everything.