confessions

Hard to invest in things, even decentralized things, when they are not consistent/predictable/transparent. Have seen a few people depart this week and I post infrequently.

Experimental apps are a great concept for very small communities

A generative photographer working at the intersection of imperfection and curiosity.

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and you're probably shadowbanned(?) bc your comment is hide in my cast

I am not in the confessions channel and think that change was rolled out oddly. That may be it. 

But also, after being very positive about FC early on, I have drifted back to Twitter and am paying more attention to Bluesky and Mastodon. 

It is not just the changes but also the tone in which the changes are defended.

I can cast to zero channels now. The new default “invite only” behaviour is not a good way to build a social network, imho.

If I am locked out of “where the discussion is happening,” then I imagine *many* more users will be too. The app becomes dead on arrival for 99% of us.

This is the tone point here in the replies to this @mattdesl post 
https://warpcast.com/mattdesl/0x25f59242 

Apps do not tend to thrive when treating users as dumb, not fully invested enough, or as having one single shared approach to using your app.  Is this an app for the public common or a patreon? 

There are some smart people building this app but they have a repeated blind spot in the responses to spam  - which is what first turned me off several months ago.