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https://archive.is/96Woj

The company made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to AI Overviews …

… making the feature rely less heavily on user-generated content from sites like Reddit

So it prefers the results that Google normally deprioritizes? I guess we have that in common

It dominates the market in vertical tabs IMO. I tried Vivaldi, Firefox extension, the works. The best-feeling alternative was Safari

You might be right. I think I moved after reading this post from the lemmy.world team. Specifically the part:

As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The fediverse being in a state of fairly continuous growth, ‘as it gets big’ can refer to any arbitrary point in time over the past couple of years or moving forward. The statement is essentially, we will arbitrate the content on the instance for reasons. That’s fine, but not something I personally want out of my instance, so I left. sh.itjust.works was the other instance I considered moving to at the time, and I’d be against the team there defederating politicised instances in the same way. If I were a user there, I’d leave.

It wouldn’t really affect me anyway in this case, I got permabanned from lemmygrad.ml (which seems to share banlists with hexbear) for reason “liberal” after pointing out suggestions Trudeau literally voiced support for nazis were being deliberately facetious.

I moved from .world because they defederated dbzer0. They’ve since refederated though.

Like how servers started defederating dbzer0 for having piracy communities? Sounds great for the fediverse. What’s stopping you from just blocking the instances?