I am a dull and simple lad, but I've held a belief ever since Musk purchased Twitter he did it to wreck the platform. I'm still undecided if he's just looking to liquidate its assets, or drive off reasonable users so he can turn it into his personal soapbox.
beardsley
joined 1 year ago
Spot on. the placebo effect is powerful and very likely plays a role in both scenarios.
Often I have supposed really expensive cables improve things just because it was time to replace cables already, or the connection was janky to begin with because the budding audiophile is upgrading from bare wire connectors to banana plugs.
Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...
It's taking some time to get over the withdrawal, but despite the fact I really liked some subreddits, staying off has become the best internet habit-related choice I've ever made. The low signal-to-noise ratio you mention is one big factor. The other is I needed some obstacles to ease of use to make my choices more deliberate. I have found alternatives, sure. But now I spend maybe a tenth of the time on social media that I used to when I was redditing every day.
I looked into building an earthship in my area and was shot down pretty fast. But also, I wonder if Terlingua and other places in the US don't have codes for the same reason some countries don't have them- corruption. The recent disaster along the border of Turkey & Syria is the dark side of no building standards.
Another long-timer. Would add to your list of apps that made it all tolerable BaconIt (Windows Phone, went through a phase). 3rd party apps ARE (sorry, WERE) the Reddit experience for millions of users. Huffman's declarations are hubris. He may own the 2-monitor setups, cubicles, payroll and have keys to the building, but he is not the owner of the thoughts, feelings and ideas users forged into the site's lifeblood. It's not his to monetize.
you live a couple blocks from me, don't you?