What you refer to is the main reason Upscrolled has value.

Which makes it all the worse to doom the platform by running it like some kind of Joe Rogan listening crypto bro.

The quest to find the kindest venture capitalists is Quixotic

To paraphrase Super Hans, regular people like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust regular people.

Joking aside, "centralised" is to some extent a shorthand for "using a model that won't work without a ton of money, probably doomed to VC and associated rot". Relying on millionaires...

No, it makes a "clone" account, that you don't control directly, on the other service.

aye, that's a gag by the account owner, it's a thing people do

normal web frontend

phanpy is cool though, and elk (elk.zone) is lovely as a frontend

If you like having little chats it's nice, not going to make a big dent in sales

If you're good at alt text they'll bear you aloft on their shoulders

It's slow to build up and a lot more friction to discovery than other socials

Maybe use Openvibe or similar to post to it and BS in one go