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I assume this was a grift — they "found" some bodies and declared them Arthur and Guinevere, and suddenly the site became a pilgrimage destination and lots of money started flowing in from the pilgrims.

Bummer. Well, maybe the dev can look into it and if it's possible enable translation using iOS's built-in solution.

IDK, I was just noting that this might work but I wasn't sure. Maybe someone who uses de-googled Android knows of a similar solution that doesn't use Google's services.

Working fine for me so far but a lot of people I know haven't upgraded their iPhones so our messaging hasn't switched to RCS. But the few conversations that have switched are working fine.

Does this work for you? IDK if you're on iOS, Android, or something else.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/translate-text-in-apps-iphab4dcff1d/ios

https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6350658?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Always has been.

Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:

Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.

That's embarrassing.

Oh yeah this has little to do with the original question about why bsky is more popular. This suggestion of "let people write their own algorithms" is for the devs who think algorithms are harmful. They aren't harmful if you give users the power to choose their own algorithm. Techie people can write the algorithms and non-techie people can choose them. Chances are a few algorithms would eventually become the most popular and very few would be written after that, but the point is you let the users decide instead of the Mastodon devs having to write the algorithms.

And now I realize bsky actually has something like this: Custom Feeds. If I understand correctly, they get around the "running untrusted code" issue by not running the code on bsky servers. Instead whoever wrote the custom feed gets the data from bsky, runs the algorithm on a separate server, then returns the custom feed. Pretty clever. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

I was thinking along the lines of being given a list of popular algorithms, but if you find an algorithm you like on another instance you can copy it over to your instance. So it is not necessary to write code and nearly nobody would do it, they would just use ones that other people created.

But I realize this is an extremely difficult request so I'm not really serious when I propose it.