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Usenet? It’s is still there, despite google’s attempts to absorb it.

I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.

Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.

If I am reading Google Translate’s English translation of your post, am I reading human authored text or AI authored text?

If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?

I see this now on feddit.uk but permanently displaying the wrong name not just for a few seconds.

Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

Suspending them before they have actually done anything wrong is a bit like a pre-crime.

I should think there are many people who think Google Groups is Usenet, and they have to register with google to post on there. Recently I think they have removed the option to view the source of an article.

I’m not on Facebook but I know people who are, and they are just ordinary people who made a poor choice and didn’t read the terms and conditions. It’s all those people who you are excluding, not just Facebook employees.

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.