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Is Sharon Apple somehow involved? Can we get a list of virtual idols with suspicious behavior?

Dang I wish I knew that at the time. I had to run it many times before I was satisfied that my history was properly edited before deleting everything

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

IIRC that was not the case. They very publicly blamed 3rd party apps, which was both disingenuous and not transparent.

You think it’s expensive now, but wait till everyone with all that California tech money rolls in and starts buying everything sight-unseen. And in cash.

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.

You could dig around for a used pebble watch. Apparently they still work with modern phones

Brb gotta take a xit