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probably more people will be blocking attie than ICE by the end of the day tomorrow.

It's also blocked by another 135K people via blocklists.

I find this intriguing because I'm a HUGE "A.i." hater, but I don't even think attie is the worst example out there - as I understand it, it's a feed creator, not a content scraper/thief. But it's "A.i.," so it's potentially contributing to the environmental/economic issues we've seen... AND...

...since it's "A.i.," I think it's justifiable to suspicious of mission creep and additional "A.i." crap to follow that DOES scrape and steal data and contribute to disinfo and bullshit. It was also AGGRESSIVELY marketed as "A.i." - down to the domain name - to a platform of users that HATE "A.i."

Maybe the product will work fine. But it ALSO feels like a situation where tech overlords are pushing "A.i." onto something that doesn't need it. If feeds are so hard to create, why not just... make a better, more intuitive feed creator with better UI?

i'm speculating here but i think the foregrounding of AI is a strong signaling choice that was both totally unnecessary (to your point, it's a feed creator; these kinds of systems have existed for more than a decade) and also totally the wrong note to try to hit at this moment, socially.