sussy_gussy

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en

Yes. That or use Google Cache. They almost never show a paywall to the Google bot because that would hurt their page rank.

Sussy baka

Fedora ofc

That's to look extra based but he uses Linux in his dayly life.

ChatGPT truly is the greatest writer

I am. Use Matrix or Revolt.

There are also instances made to host spam bots (when they host it themselves they can make as many bots as they want and as fast as they want without having to worry about captcha) and instead of blocking each bot manually, our admins have the option to block that bot instance entirely. That's a pretty powerful moderation tool. They may of course also use this to block communities with a different ideology than them to avoid conflict. If you don't want this, you can join an instance that doesn't do this (that choice is the cool thing about the fediverse) and you could even host your own instance if you have the know how.

Thou art a saucy boy, Tybalt

The problem is the lack of diversity. Google controls Chromium and almost all browsers are Chromium based so Google controlls the supported web features of almost all browsers, giving them the power to decide which web features are supported on the internet and which aren't. They use this for example to push their own file formats for the web instead of better alternatlives. Remember when everyone was mad that ublock origin wouldn't work on Chromium browsers anymore? Same thing. They get money from ads so they make it harder to block them. Google shouldn't have that much power over the web.

They like the position of power over other users and it's worth more to them than being treated well by the platform.