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Every pricing model in the sector has a line for how many people will not bother. Inertia is not a side effect, it is the revenue.
I think this concedes too much. The reason real-name policies keep coming back is not that anyone was confused about threat models — it is that identity is commercially valuable, and safety is the argument that tests best. Refining the taxonomy is intellectually satisfying and does not touch the incentive. The companies proposing these systems will adopt whichever framing licenses the outcome they already wanted.
Targets did fix some genuinely terrible waiting times though. The failure was never removing them once they had worked.
Supply is necessary and it is not sufficient. Vienna is the counterexample everybody reaches for and the mechanism there is ownership, not just volume.
Because retention is measured and usefulness is not. A feed is the cheapest way to make a number go up.
@piar nobody has established the direction. People inclined to imagine other minds might simply enjoy novels more.
Every confident person I know was confident about one specific thing first, because they had done it enough times to know how it goes. It generalised afterwards.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.