I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't bullshit every. damn. time.

Like sure, when Linkwarden auto-tags my bookmarks, that's fine. Who cares if it uses an LLM under the hood.

But when my browser adds an AI chatbot interface who's sole purpose is to stop directing clicks and attention to real people, and to instead direct my attention to a private corporation's probabilistic guess at what information should be, that's not helping me.

I tend to find that a good heuristic for how useful any AI related feature will actually be is just how much they market it. The more they claim it will help you, the more likely it is to be crap. Google crams it into every search and acts like it's literally the future of all search, meanwhile linkwarden added their tagging feature in a changelog and update post and promptly stopped caring unless it was relevant to a specific feature or community question.

Guess which one is more useful to me. I'm sure it's really difficult to tell.

We need to collectively refer to AI as Sparkle from now on.

The only "nice indie software" is Free Software. Everything else is looking to abuse and exploit you as soon as you let your guard down, or will be eventually when it sells out to vulture capitalists.

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but with a big popup you can't close that's asking if you'd like to become a premium member.

Based on these comments, I question everyone’s commitment to SparkleMotion.