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  The option to remove followers has been in Misskey for years. They semi recently added it to Mastodon.

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  @ppb1701 Here is the hard pill to swallow. Humanity wants AI. Crazy, right? The vocal minority are just that. We are a very vocal — I would say extremely vocal — but still a minority group. Those AI websites and apps are gaining users, not losing them. People have been wanting AI and dreaming of a future with AI since the first computers were invented. Our dream of an AI future has been embedded in books, movies, TV shows, and more. In fact, when faced with the reality of today's AI...

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  @ppb1701 And that is exactly how the Internet started among corporations. I remember when the Internet was free for a brief time. I am not talking about a trial membership either. I mean to say you dialed up a local access number without any username or password, and you were simply online with access to the early Internet. They gave away the Internet like a drug. They wanted to see if people would use it, and they wanted people hooked. AI is starting much in the same way. And you are right....

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  One of my followers is right. I am Al Gore of the Fediverse. It be like: Here is that inconvenient truth. OMG, you're so wrong. So, he was right? Yes, but shut up! : It do be like that.

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  Post 1 of 2 Despite what the trolls would have you believe, I don't have an army of accounts. Old accounts, that were disabled or moved, yes, but as for active accounts, it has always been five. Why? The Fediverse is imperfect and experiences fragmentation. You want to follow users 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, but for whatever reason, user 2 and 5 are unavailable because their admin had a disagreement with your admin. Or because they're in Asia and the other server is in Europe, and thei...

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  I'm at the point where if something is not easy or not intuitive — preferably both — I don't care as much to invest the effort. Life has become too busy for me to worry about every little technicality and trivial thing standing in the way, and I'd rather move around it.

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