LittleShaman

The first two points Andrej says are the cause of the funnel seem to be pretty much the "alternative explanation" you share.

Its an equal area projection which means it preserves relative area.

Both kids in Europe and Africa will actually end up with a more correct idea of how large both their continents are.

I think your comment works as a reply to claiming closed source is more secure than open source - you try to bring them both to the same level.

I dont think it replies to what the user asks though. It seems reasonable expecting widely used open source software to be studied by many people. If thats true it would be good to question why this wasnt caught by anyone. Ignoring all ssl errors is not something you need to be an expert to know is bad...

It's quite easy doing better than Twitter considering the antics since the acquisition.

It very much is our problem what he does with/on Twitter because it affects us, it's one of the largest social media platforms, it's not a new yacht he bought.

One of the valuable aspects of freedom of speech is ideas can gain traction because of their virtue and not e.g because of force. Musk has no expertise in most of what he talks about. Yet he uses reach he has purely because of his wealth to spread misinformation. The marketplace of ideas is a complete joke if ideas spread just because of money.

The second point is just confused. It isn't about if people would do it, it's on if Musk should be doing it. His antics include boosting misinformation like vaccine skepticism and fringe political theories, that's obviously wrong and worth criticizing.

That isn't at all true for Mastodon. Despite a very significant drop a while after the influx from twitter, looking at a few different sources it has twice as many monthly active users now (~600k before influx to hovering around ~1.2M for a few months now after the slump.)

Your second paragraph isn't exactly right.

The largest instances have a little duplication so there are something like 3 large gaming-related communities, 3 large world news communities, etc. This is not generally the case, for many topics communities on particular instances either "win out" so to speak in terms of subscribers or duplication doesn't exist.

No, people don't reject child marriages just because they don't like it, it is medically known to be harmful and children can't consent.

Further, moral relativism is a dangerous and absurd position to hold. It might be convenient in excusing something you hold that's controversial but it also means a group of people can use it to defend any position at all they have. Any familiarity with what we humans have done and do should tell you this won't be about excusing disagreements over irrelevant things like ice-cream flavors.

I've expressed this badly. By "but not what I wanted" I don't mean it suggesting an alternative. I mean it giving an answer claiming to do what I asked for, but which doesn't actually. I would not be able to catch this. I hope this clarifies why I gave that as an example to my uncertainty of ChatGPT giving wrong answers.

On stackoverflow and the like you will know that the question does not apply to you.