wiki-user: 6daemonbag

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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I can’t speak to the article that you’ve posted several times due to the paywall, but I can speak to the language and the antagonistic attitude they actually used during the entire debacle. Placing explicit blame on third party apps like Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc.- that was the argument used. It doesn’t matter what the real reason was. They were publicly placing blame on small fish instead of the AI monster that was stealing all of their content and bandwidth





  • Imagine being the first one to use a fresh porta potty. No smell, other than that blue chemical water down at the bottom. It’s so damn clean.

    “Great!” you exclaim with excitement. So you sit down on that smooth dry toilet seat and, relaxing, a tremendous donker just falls right out of you.

    The mass is too great. The distance. The speed and acceleration. It isn’t even a second of time, but you know. You know.

    GaTHUNK

    A cold blue kiss races towards the moon. A moon so relaxed the single crater yawns beckoningly wide. The kiss forms into a dull spear, racing towards the darkened maw. It enters beyond the shadow. Fully into the heavenly body. Cold meets heat.

    You yelp in shock. There is cold artificially blue water deep in your butthole. The sudden tension passes and as your muscles relax again, some of that cold drains back down to earth. A light shower.

    You were looking forward to this festival all year and you spend the entire time distractedly thinking in shame about how something so fortuitous turned to disaster in moments. You didn’t bring a change of underwear. Why would you?



  • To your last point, imo that is the single biggest hurdle. Initial sign up inherently creates what I like to call menu anxiety. The extra steps and the time involved is contrary to all popular practices. You have to start customizing your experience before you even know what you’re getting into, which is the inverse of how it is done everywhere else.

    And then there’s the potential to join an instance that is too small, where existing users haven’t yet subbed to communities that may interest new users. They won’t know they exist (without searching externally) based on the feed. Changing instances isn’t currently intuitive or appealing to regular potential users.

    I’m currently okay with how things are. However, mainstream adoption just can’t happen until the devs achieve their goals. I’m a huge fan of their work already. We’re a long way away from 1.0 but I do believe we’ll get there.