Oh yeah? I’ve never used the main app/site

They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo

OP ignore these salty old dogs

Yeah maybe - I imagine the tech debt is hard to manage when you fire 80% of your staff.

I’m on the latest version of the app and latest iOS version so I suspect I’m not alone

So many ways:

• frequent outages
• spaces drop out frequently
• blue membership gives credibility to fraudsters
• I haven’t been able to reply on mobile for the last 2 weeks
• blue features just stopped working a few weeks ago and nothings happened (dark mode, custom icons)
• analytics are inaccurate and have large gaps
• it’s awash with bots
• algo works against ux

I like the idea they think they can make an everything app when as a text app it’s so utterly broken

Oof, felt this right in the geriatric millennials.

Mfer I was doing assignments where I had to scroll through index cards to find the encyclopaedia, then hand write out the essay.

It’s weird when you go from being the disruptor demographic to realising that when your 5 yo kid jokes about the 80s it’s as far away in time to him as the 1940s we’re to me - for him it’s a 2d, pre-Alexa, analog dystopia.

And I’m only 42.

Can confirm, upvoted and feel better immediately

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I’m not sure actually. I just tried to screen record and it wouldn’t let me. Then I tried to take a screenshot and it triggered a no screenshots pop-up

Welcome to life after 40 - I’ve been an early adopter all my life, but my network hasn’t moved with me.

As a result joining Snapchat has no value for me.

So I tend to use apps that are friend-agnostic like this and TIkTok.

Side note: my fave messaging app is Confide, it only reveals redacted words as you run your finger over them, and then deletes. So it’s impossible to screenshot.

Just like all my hopes and dreams

I remember watching a clip from “The Network” where Jeff Daniel’s is interviewing an expert on climate change. It was when it was too late - and the expert lore or less said so.

It struck me as prescient - that despite all the warnings we’d be shocked when it came and it was irreversible.

Tbh it came sooner than I expected.

I think there are times when your values dictate your opinion rather than the facts.

There’s a reason logic isn’t what sells cars, skin care and fashion.

We’re emotional creatures.

A strong opposition should help reign in excesses of either side, and we should crave it.

There are ideas that originate on the right and are embraced in the left - universal basic income comes to mind.

I’m sorry you feel that way, but I get where you’re coming from.

Zoom out a little though and it’s consequences are war, famine, and desecration.

If not the human suffering, consider eons long chains of biology that’ll be wiped off the face of the earth as climates shift quicker than their ability to adapt

I’m a leftie, but I’ve found my beliefs challenged, altered and enriched by debating right wing intellectuals.

It’s possible for two ideas to be equally right and incompatible

I wonder if the internet, possibly the worlds best accomplishment in cooperation, can survive a post-globalist world?

Perhaps it’s the purist expression of the wave in optimism for liberalised trade before it crested and rolled back out to sea.

I tried mastodon very briefly about 6mths ago, and it seemed pretty quiet ala diaspora - has it filled up a bit now?

We really just sleepwalking into a Cyberpunk dystopia huh?

If you work it out lemme know, the “bookmark”, it does nothing!”