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I don't mean to be rude but are you over 45? There is a will with most people under that age in my experience. Or maybe cars are important culturally where you live?

I can't see advertising being part of the long term plan here. He's a payments guy, and there is much more money in turning Twitter into an economy in of itself. This would be tricky if he needed to rely on banks etc, but more recently, he is also a crypto guy. It will be interesting to see how creative he gets in that area, but I would think that his dream would be to create a fluid online economy. I would expect him to first attempt reinventing the concepts of cash, and loose change, but in a digital platform, rather than one's pocket.

I'm pretty sure most of those Reddit clones get flooded with "undesirable" bots as a way of killing them off. The people who currently run bots on Reddit, have massive power over public opinion etc, they want to keep their victims centralised, and on familiar territory.

He who controls the memes....

Some kind of e-commerce system will definitely be on his mind. People seem to forgot that he was involved in PayPal.

There was talk of him using crypto currency as a way of disincentivizing bots. Not sure how well thought out the ideas were, but there might well be some interesting integrations with crypto on the platform

I think we need to expand our vocabulary a little on this subject. A lot of people seem to think that these "bots" are just limited to "buy crypto today" type posters.

What they don't realise is that the comment they are reading right now could well have been written by a bot.

Any conversation around the 5g rollout was colour washed from day one. I assume that happened naturally but who knows really. I have seen very very little informative conversation online, mainly because it became something like the current vaccine debate where the middle line is drowned out by the "believers", and the "crazies". I'm not really surprised to see seemingly routine issues go unnoticed until now.

It almost looks like they wanted to get caught.

I really wish this kind of thing was more talked about, and better understood. Most people have no idea how these "bots" or "trolls" actually influence conversation online, and what impact their actions have.

One thing that frustrates me most is that even if people do reach the point of understanding the power these people have, it still won't matter much. We still trust online media such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and even this website, as being the fountain of the mythical phenomenon known as "public opinion".

I can see in real life that people are becoming fatigued by the uncertainty of our modern existence, but everyone is unsure of how to pinpoint and react to the source of their tension. My expectation/hope/fear is that the younger generation who grow up in this environment will eventually form a nu-luddite movement.

My bigger expectation/fear is that they won't

I've always found it to be 99% there. But that 1% prevents you from doing any serious work. Things like mongo become a nightmare when using WSL. Its been entirely frustrating for me. I would have much rather they focused on getting popular libraries to work rather than focus on the flashy GUI features

As much as I love this type of app, I can't help but feel depressed that before we know it there will be an app that does the opposite. We are allowing governments and billionaires to pollute our view of the cosmos. The night sky is such an important part of the human experience and most people never experience it in all its beauty. Allowing American business owners and world militaries to block it from above just makes my stomach turn if I am honest.