Overzeetop

The X, in this context, is pronounced like “sh” right?

IKR? The massive influx of near-zero-friction signups is bound to create a large userbase of new/shiny window shoppers who quickly lose interest. I’ve got a couple of friends who seem to be attempting to create a presence there, but otherwise it’s a terrible feed. Of course it’s a terrible feed for me because I’ve done jack-shit on instagram and the algorithm is just throwing stuff at my wall to see what sticks. I’ve got ladies with large asses in spandex, some quote-meme spammers, and Jair Bolsonaro filling up my feed - that’s just a fucking dumpster fire.

I’ll keep the app (properly sandboxed) but I doubt I’ll interact with it any more than mastodon or Post - which is monthly at best. I’d say that I dropper Twitter last year, but really I dropped it a decade ago as being useless as both a location for discourse and a source for, well, anything of interest to me.

I’ll say it every time: it’s their platform, their servers, their choice. However, we owe them nothing. If they want to go it alone, we need to let them. Let them hire paid moderators and we should delete our content so they have to create their own.

We built the communities there, we can do it again elsewhere. We have the expertise and the desire.

It would have been a brilliant business move if it had worked. Shysters and cheats have been mixing in expired or substandard additives to food and drug products for all of history. As long as nobody dies, and you don’t get caught, it’s just free money in your pocket. I believe it was Heintz, around the turn of the 20th century, who lobbied strongly in favor of the Pure Food and Drugs Act in the US because he felt it would give him a competitive advantage over others by requiring the additives in food be safe. Crazy concept, right?

Bluetooth for audio might be the worst implementation of a specification every devised. Ridiculous lag, no multipoint connection, no ability to manage or negotiate connections from the device, limited ability to define the connection (audio vs headset among the culprits). BT for audio just seems like a cruel joke.