Lupi

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cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.

i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi

I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory

they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"

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Lupi @lupi11/24/2022, 11:04 AM

walking mirage @atomicthumbs

walking mirage @atomicthumbs11/24/2022, 10:07 AM

it is absolutely buck wild how the people running cohost can go "this feature should exist, because it would make the website better and be in line with our idea of what we want it to be" and then work on it for a while and then it exists

twitter couldn't do that. everything had to be a/b tested to hell and back, and used to experiment on users, and enabled for part of the population in a gradual rollout, before being rejected because it sucked. there were and are all sorts of feature flags you could enable manually for weird-ass shit that might be sitting around for years before it's either fully implemented or turned off. as a large corporation, as a machine made of people with no thoughts, and no need except profit, it had no idea or singular vision of what its service should be, and now its ability to even do that has been blown to smithereens

the cohost staff know what they want the site to be. and they like using it, and they like making it a better thing to use.

it's new, and it's nice

#cohost meta

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signal eleven @widr11/24/2022, 10:16 AM

think about this a lot, when companies become big enough and start doing everything """data driven""" and with """OKRs""" it suddenly becomes anathema, even strongly proscribed to do something just because it's obviously sensible or you'd like to see it

Julian @basaltimagery11/24/2022, 10:18 AM

Agreed, though I also think this is related to the difference in size between the two.

Which makes me wonder, will there be a level of success for Cohost where they can no longer do things like this. (Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be proven wrong and the answer being "no".)

abadidea @0xabad1dea11/24/2022, 1:43 PM

I am not too worried about it because our co-hosts clearly have opinions not only about how the site should work but what kind of users they want to attract, which precludes becoming Too Successful For Your Own Good by trying to be as blandly neutral and appeasing as possible

@iangmorris11/24/2022, 10:24 AM

needing to make all the money is a plague on a lot of things but especially tech, sometimes stuff can just be profitable and not need to be propped up by tons of VC money

V(ee?)@atonal44011/24/2022, 11:20 AM

Ah but twitter never had any good ideas for its product even when it was small! Everything that happened on Twitter had to be invented by its users or another social network before it could ever be done at Twitter.

eevee @lexyeevee11/24/2022, 6:40 PM

this is a good point and it's actually kind of funny how terrible of an idea twitter's core premise was, like it was basically sms group chat for saying which dennys you were at

eevee @lexyeevee11/24/2022, 6:39 PM

it's not even new! it's very old

but twitter fell into the same trap it lured its users into: it relies crucially on number go up

Rine @rine11/26/2022, 8:38 AM

To be fair, there was a consent decree because they did a massive whoopsie and leaked a bunch of customer data, so after a point every decision had to have five people check to make sure this wouldn't cause -another- massive data leak and millions in fines.

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