Nailed it

Related - I know it’s more convenient to have games auto save, but those that don’t even give you the option to save and just do it behind the scenes low key give me anxiety

Like how Peacock made it basically impossible to find coverage of specific Olympics medal events 🫠

I want a google maps for Apple Watch but that’s not gonna happen

I like it. Now I just picture Al being just a real jerk. No offense to the Alberts among us

It’s Twitter when Twitter was good

Don’t forget the other side of this: their influence and market forces pressuring sites into enshittifying to stay relevant and ranked. So not only is the search broken, but the content you’re trying to find is broken too.

Also goes to show how a cult of personality can go both ways. People get sick of you and work to establish a counter position. Here we are!

The best use case I’ve found so far is fancy code autocomplete. Saves me a few seconds here and there. Hardly worth the billions of investment and data harvesting though

Great game 🏎️🏎️🏎️

That’s a fair point, I go back and forth on this a lot. I think I should reword it as - platforms which have some protective barriers against exploitation by big tech (AI, tracking, scraping) might be a good things

I legit laughed out loud when I heard that

I moved to the US from the UK a decade ago. My accent no longer fits in either country. It’s terrible.

Huge fan of your podcast here. It’s funny that there’s so much bandwidth and power available and yet text and even images cost almost nothing to host. There’s an interesting economy of scale thing to exploit here - bandwidth being so cheap that anyone could build a huge platform from their garage.