Stephen Adams ⚾️ 🌈

In the meantime, please give my article a read about how to at least block the GPTBot with commentary on the sad state of affairs from AI companies: stephenpauladams.substack.com/p/listen-up-pu…

...and make it a priority w/ a deadline to create a model where content creators/publishers make money upon ingestion and attribution from their content. Until then, Arc Search will remain hostile to the content creator community and I heavily recommend users not DL or use it.

This is my first post since leaving Twitter from Threads (November 2023). No, I'm not leaving Threads. But I am posting here to implore @browsercompany to both provide a mechanism to prevent their bots from stealing content... stephenpauladams.substack.com/p/listen-up-pu…

My TL;DR: I'm currently not missing Twitter aside from Baltimore Twitter. Threads feels more positive. More upbeat. Twitter comes across as negative and combative comparatively, and I just don't think I need that any longer. YMMV.

...and it also might be because Orioles baseball season is over. But the play/by/play hyper-local fans just isn't there, yet. Anyways...

An evaluation of Threads from a decade+ Twitter user. Thread (no pun intended) incoming. First and foremost, some context: I have not been happy with the direction of Twitter ever since Elon took over. There is a myriad of reasons, some of which I'll try and condense...