Fair call. The post ended up being a beautiful read, I’m happy with what you made of it.

I hope I’m wrong, that OP isn’t a troll and decides to join us for the long haul. :)

This looks like a troll account? I kind of want to engage, but it looks like I’ll be losing time.

…we ain’t goeing* 🤣

This is the way!

I just learned of http://www.orangepi.org/, which looks like a chinese spinoff compatible raspberry pi.

On sale at aliexpress.

This is why I opted for a lemmygrad account for the long run.

Any instances banning lemmygrad are not worthy to read my shitty hot takes. And I don’t want to spend my time with them, anyway.

If you’re reading this, please hire me, Chinese government!

For all the CIA agents out there, this is a joke!

I think it all becomes muscle memory and people figure it out. The overstreamlining required by western users also speak about their understanding of systems. People in the west are apparently - educated to be afraid of complexity and problems.

I think super apps fill an “infrastructure” role in the app ecosystem. Almost like an OS, but collective. And as long as other people can hop into the ecosystem and participate, I can see the value. But it makes sense that the natural monopolies as messages and banking and marketplace become a single thing. Therefore, complex.

But I still like the unix motto, about doing one thing well. I wonder how extensible these designs and applications are for smaller teams working on single functionalities.

Looks confusing.

It’s horrible how anything recognisable we build gets coopted. :/

Welcome to lemmygrad. :)

Hope you find new narratives that gets you curious about how information gets around. Follow the links people send your way!