indefensible: john gruber

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110667962169426329

We gonna need Threads/Mastodon embeds now i guess?

congratulation etc

classic john "gatekeeper is my favorite feature of mountain lion" gruber

I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years. Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s a very real chance that under Musk’s leadership, Twitter might break apart and fade into irrelevance. But Musk himself notes the same thing! Keeping Twitter open to a wide range of content, but making it easy to control what content you see, as user, is a worthy ideal. Pulling it off, that’s the trick. But as a privately-held company Musk is free to make changes that move Twitter away from being optimized for engagement and towards being optimized for enjoyment.

October 2022.

He’s now on a tear about the evil EU daring to try and regulate the best product of the year, Threads

It’s interesting that Threads has entirely leapfrogged the “cool place to chat with chums” phase of its social network existence and gone straight into the “bad office party” phase

everyones there brands influencers blue checks linkdin guys

kinda funny how blue check in facebook world still means verified

i’m no longer complaining about twitter’s “for you” tab after seeing threads so they’ve accomplished that

“Twitter with the TikTok algorithm” is a good description of threads I saw somewhere.

i said that in the twitter thread, but in a more artful way

He’s still got it

TikTok has far fewer brands and celebrities.

Low-hanging fruit, but this review of a $100 box cutter is a masterpiece of the form.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/studio-neat-keen