Why do we need fridges if we can just put things in the landfill and have it last longer

The only feature that motivated me to upgrade to my latest phone was a much better camera and I wanted that for traveling.

The political difficulty of implementing this will vary highly depending on the country. Technically, while impossible to enforce 100%, even if it is 90% effective it will be very effective at covering things up. The main accountability benefit of phones is the ubiquity, because everyone has a phone. If a fraction of people have workarounds it won’t be nearly as effective.

Doesn’t need to be 100% bullet proof to be highly effective at suppressing accountability though. Yes people will be able to get around it but the benefit of everyone having a phone is that it’s ubiquitous. Everyone has a phone so if there’s anyone in the vicinity of police committing a crime it can be recorded. With all those extra steps you listed, the number of people who will go through the trouble will be a small fraction of the current phone user base now.

I’m wondering if they will even decide to try to federate. They’re bootstrapping threads with Instagram that already had 2+billion users. That’s insanely big compared to the fediverse. What do they even benefit from enabling it?

I’m not going anywhere! Just waiting until it’s old news

I like it but can’t wait until we stop talking about Reddit

We’re there and early internet standards you were super bullish on at the time that didn’t get picked up? In retrospect, if it had been adopted do you think it would have had the impact you were hoping for?

It’s fun to try to guess!

“Heineken? Pabst Blue Ribbon!”

Said it once. Never again.

It has less content, but enough for me to scratch that itch, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing that it’s not an infinite stream of addiction. There’s definitely an onboarding and discovery problem, but I think it’s a solvable problem.

I don’t have anything to add but in the spirit of actually engaging, I see your comment and agree!

I think it will get better. The onboarding problem is very solvable and as instances adapt to the load they will get more stable. On the protocol level if they add account linking I think we’ll be golden.