Andy 🪴
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since 1993 and
my body is tired
I also think in other examples, the focus on short term monetization takes the focus away from making the best functionality possible. Can’t say if that’s happening with this stuff though.
I’m presuming we disagree on the stuff I said about advertising.
I’m presuming we disagree on the stuff I said about advertising.
July 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I also think in other examples, the focus on short term monetization takes the focus away from making the best functionality possible. Can’t say if that’s happening with this stuff though.
I’m presuming we disagree on the stuff I said about advertising.
I’m presuming we disagree on the stuff I said about advertising.
I don’t actually use discord that much, so I am spitballing on specifics about it and this orb stuff. But imo any advertising degrades the UX. More ads further degrade the UX. I want a completely ad free computing experience, and I think everyone deserves that.
July 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I don’t actually use discord that much, so I am spitballing on specifics about it and this orb stuff. But imo any advertising degrades the UX. More ads further degrade the UX. I want a completely ad free computing experience, and I think everyone deserves that.
Respectfully, using psychology against people to get them to view more advertising and spend more money on crap they don’t need is shitty. Just because Discord was already shitty doesn’t mean this isn’t. This is a prime example of enshittifiction.
July 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Respectfully, using psychology against people to get them to view more advertising and spend more money on crap they don’t need is shitty. Just because Discord was already shitty doesn’t mean this isn’t. This is a prime example of enshittifiction.
It has not. They do run stuff that is critical of the right, etc and I’ve heard some good analysis of the stuff going on in the last 10 years, but hooo boy have they normalized and legitimized trump/maga. It’s infuriating.
July 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It has not. They do run stuff that is critical of the right, etc and I’ve heard some good analysis of the stuff going on in the last 10 years, but hooo boy have they normalized and legitimized trump/maga. It’s infuriating.
I'm really pessimistic about this. I think what's going on tech-wise with atproto and bsky is exciting, but we know where this is going. How do we pay for all of this without enshittification? If there isn't some new novel plan, I have to assume ads and selling user data are coming.
June 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm really pessimistic about this. I think what's going on tech-wise with atproto and bsky is exciting, but we know where this is going. How do we pay for all of this without enshittification? If there isn't some new novel plan, I have to assume ads and selling user data are coming.
That would be news to me! I’ve been under the impression that appview = client.
I’m just learning myself and have yet to jump into any dev. I haven’t come across a great rundown of exactly where the boundaries of app views are (I’m mostly been skimming the docs).
Lmk if you have any good links.
I’m just learning myself and have yet to jump into any dev. I haven’t come across a great rundown of exactly where the boundaries of app views are (I’m mostly been skimming the docs).
Lmk if you have any good links.
April 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
That would be news to me! I’ve been under the impression that appview = client.
I’m just learning myself and have yet to jump into any dev. I haven’t come across a great rundown of exactly where the boundaries of app views are (I’m mostly been skimming the docs).
Lmk if you have any good links.
I’m just learning myself and have yet to jump into any dev. I haven’t come across a great rundown of exactly where the boundaries of app views are (I’m mostly been skimming the docs).
Lmk if you have any good links.
You are correct, skylight is just an appview and right now they don’t have any of their own infra; it’s all Bluesky under the hood. They haven’t said anything publicly about plans to spin up their own stuff behind the scenes… I hope they do! You are correct Spark is building separate infra.
April 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You are correct, skylight is just an appview and right now they don’t have any of their own infra; it’s all Bluesky under the hood. They haven’t said anything publicly about plans to spin up their own stuff behind the scenes… I hope they do! You are correct Spark is building separate infra.
...to save them time and effort over doing it manually. For me, the jury is still out on whether that's possible. I do apologize for dropping a random "ai sucks" comment on your thread out of the blue, and I hope this wall of comments explains where I'm coming from.
March 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
...to save them time and effort over doing it manually. For me, the jury is still out on whether that's possible. I do apologize for dropping a random "ai sucks" comment on your thread out of the blue, and I hope this wall of comments explains where I'm coming from.
I'd love to do that in the future or read someone else's study on a similar task. I still wonder if AI can empower an operator with detail skills, sufficient domain knowledge, AND sufficient vigilance to not just let the tech do its thing without really QAing it...
March 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'd love to do that in the future or read someone else's study on a similar task. I still wonder if AI can empower an operator with detail skills, sufficient domain knowledge, AND sufficient vigilance to not just let the tech do its thing without really QAing it...
So the promise of "I don't know this, let's have AI teach me" in my experience is a mirage. It's sorta there in some cases, but the more I use it the less I find it useful. I still don't know if AI is "worth it" for the alt text task. I did not scientifically study our attempt.
March 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
So the promise of "I don't know this, let's have AI teach me" in my experience is a mirage. It's sorta there in some cases, but the more I use it the less I find it useful. I still don't know if AI is "worth it" for the alt text task. I did not scientifically study our attempt.