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alexcartaz.bsky.social
@alexcartaz.bsky.social
podcast and (former) twitter enthusiast

bluesky needs to get some product sense and a fire in their belly or this whole experiment is doomed
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
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It’s 100% dark patterns

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

Oh you sweet summer child
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Who asks for it?
October 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I think it’s bc nothing is just quite compelling enough (but it’s not far off)
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
No one on tech twitter was too busy to not post for a month, including Roy. That means you’re not active
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Wild how reliably MIA all pre-Elon tech twitter ppl are from bsky
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bro are you living in 2017 or 2025
September 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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)
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yup big nope
September 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
@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)
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Taking* ffs plz give us edit @internet.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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/...
Twitter Should Make a Podcast App
Podcasts are broken, Twitter is only just beginning to solve its business problems, and I couldn’t be more bullish on both. For starters…
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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…
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM