Imagine being a venture capitalist investor and wildly active power user of Twitter and going silent on the moral imperative of its successor and the opportunities it would unlock for users

It’s 100% dark patterns

Imagine Sam Altman having the user’s best interest at heart

Oh you sweet summer child

Who asks for it?

I think it’s bc nothing is just quite compelling enough (but it’s not far off)

I just miss old twitter and there was no reason for it to end other than Elon buying it (and them letting him)

So I miss that, and assume most of the other active folks do to, so I thought ppl would be trying to find/help create that replacement but that doesn’t seem to be the prevailing sentiment

I’m just more curious why so many of the interesting tech ppl I used to enjoy following are just absent from the bsky experience

No one on tech twitter was too busy to not post for a month, including Roy. That means you’re not active

Wild how reliably MIA all pre-Elon tech twitter ppl are from bsky

Bro are you living in 2017 or 2025

Def several moral orders of magnitude worse than Kim Kardashian pretending she used one of worst podcast apps I’ve ever seen (and that’s saying something)

Yup big nope

@chancethelawyer.bsky.social I think this might have been before your Twitter time but there was a short glorious period where the actual voice actor for Zapp Branigann was recording audio over user generated memes like this (or smtg v similar, related to mocking Trump I think)

Taking* ffs plz give us edit @internet.bsky.social

There’s still a chance that something like this could thrive within the bsky ecosystem, but right now there aren’t nearly enough prominent active users to really make it work

What if your pod app gave you a mechanism to follow hosts, guests, or potentially even talked ab individuals on your social interest graph of choice

Peak podcast golden area failed with old school twitter not making a podcast app

medium.com/@AlexCartaz/...

and some pods are altogether just focused on talking ab books they think are great (or terrible but that’s diff)

Imagine if you podcast saved the book recs from pods you liked and gave you 1-click options to buy the audio, e-book, or physical versions

Podcast discovery is still broken / non-existent and we haven’t yet been able to see any of the cool downstream innovations that are possible if it has been fixed

E.g. lots of great authors go on pods to talk ab a book when they write a new one…