VC funding for now, plans to add user subscriptions (in exchange for profile customizations, higher resolution images, etc) and eventually a bluesky/atproto payment system (where they would take a cut of transactions)
recently talked about it here: youtu.be/YwCpGaFG1f4?...
we need an image that we can post that will immediately invoke the idea of users not understanding the protocol without requiring context, like the survivorship bias airplane image
doubly hard when the promise is not “sick ass metal speed machine” and instead “social media with proper incentives to not implode and enshittify in a less than a decade”
eh, maybe. i spose my concerns are less about the user base at a given time and more about the lack of the backbone in leadership, because the next time weenie hut jr. requests come in who knows if they’ll be able to stop it.
very frequently when they talk about the protocol to users it seems apologetic. like oops sorry, we actual designed this in a good way to start with, so your nimrod idea won’t be possible :( we really want to tho!! let’s make a workaround (!???)
ngl im worried for this place when the direction seems so led by emulating other socials / listening to users about what features they want (when the only features they know, and are used to, suck and are entirely wrongheaded)
i enjoyed being surrounded by only women this week. it allowed me to embrace more masculine characteristics of my personality, but in a way that felt safe
there are pages and pages of stuff like this, but a bunch of it has either been deleted or deactivated. her first message to me was a 4 page report on my personality after stalking my socials. i love her
yeah and i feel like ive tried and failed to explain that before like *she* is not transphobic but her actions/words are, but for non-transphobic reasons