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How so? Those two together is literally agile; not as I've seen it done, but as it's intended. Learn, iterate, repeat.

I know Apple has a reputation for good UX but I think it's carry over from a different era and it's trending down.

I bought my kid an iPad for Christmas and set up parental controls, then could not disable it without another iPad (which I don't have).

There are many forum threads concluding you just have to factory reset.

I couldn't believe how many little unintuitive things I bumped into setting it up.

His learnings from 14 years at Google. Surely we've all learned things working for employers or with engineers that don't do a thing well.

In 14 years he probably also experienced great engineers come and go and start other successful businesses they very likely did not run exactly like Google.

I'd love to read this article but the website is cancer. I keep clicking dismiss on mobile and it takes me to another website.

Hard agree, from practical experience also. One thing will push you towards shadow dom (slots, for example) then ten things will push you back towards light dom. I don't exactly understand what the spec is aiming to solve with the way things currently are. But I do appreciate no build process.

Following "easily defeated" with "teaching everyone" gave me an audible chuckle.

Or use a checkbox and stop trying to make toggles a thing, since they just don't translate to digital as well.

Maybe with a shitty boss and a complacent environment. Help them not squint at it and make a gut decision. Why not instead ensure the objective of the report is clear, there's a meaningful target around which to hinge on a decision, and present the data in a way that helps make the decision? And in lieu of the time or resources to do that, work on those problems?

If it helps, it's not for you.

Execs can't do this themselves because they don't have the information they need, and are trying to be predictable and compete in a market. So think about it as an ELI5 exercise where you're infantilizing up, or as it's more commonly and professionally referred to, managing up, or more plainly, helping the business make better decisions.

Or building things that help retain current customers vs acquire new customers so sales has something to sell.

The bigger problem as I've seen it is engineers that don't see themselves as part of the business, either because of the culture or personal choice around lack of focus on soft skills.

All too often engineers spend zero time understanding the market and customers, and scaled agile, as it's typically implemented and managed, definitely doesn't help.

Upper funnel/lower funnel, depending. And don't forget the future employees that take notice of a culture that would allow for such an exercise. To me, it communicates good product management, roadmaps, and healthy financials to allow the room to breathe.

You're making a lot of statements across all your comments that are not backed up and easily disproven, and you double down with more of the same so it's not particularly valuable to engage.

I think with a little critical thinking you can take your "the only" or "is about" statements and ask yourself if you can think of exceptions. You can, and easily.

Chicken and the egg. You can't really make people not want cars without better alternatives, which requires investments that aren't being made.

I want a car, because I need a car. But put in a few bullet trains and offshoots, a business model for vehicles that enables access to a $100/month consumer fleet of shared vehicles so I can grab a truck, minivan, whatever as needed, and I will happily skip ownership.

What's the model called? I think someone accidentally base64 encoded it.

You have your facts correct and your conclusion backwards.

What is it? I opened it up but it kinda throws you right in. Lots of recordings about being lonely. Is that what it's for, or was that some kind of prompt? Is it a mental health platform? Or is it meant to be more general, like a Twitter/Reddit but audio only?

Imagine this take on something like an enterprise SLA, that helps me reason about how at an individual level it feels nonsensical but at the parent level there are a bunch of upstream levers available to meet those SLAs.

I mean to refer to centralization as a spectrum so I don't intend to say centralization means one option.

What I mean by comparing music streaming to movie streaming is that for all intents and purposes you can feel like your Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple, whatever music libraries are pretty comprehensive, whereas that is absolutely not the case with Netflix, Max, etc.

There are two options: a one time cost to remove ads ($20), or Sync Ultra which is recurring.

Hm, okay. I appreciate the dialog, just trying to understand the perspective and I think I do (still disagree, but that's okay).

I thought maybe you'd go in the direction of laws or licenses being used to prohibit advertising in certain contexts, like downstream use of content, but what I'm hearing is that profiting off other's free content is fine, but in your opinion doing so with ads just isn't cool with you. That's reasonable, I just thought maybe your desired solution was more systemic.

Ultimately he's trying to cover his own salary. Would be interesting to know what that salary is, and what the price point would have to be to eliminate the ad revenue completely. As it stands, many balked at a one time cost of $20.

I understand that is an option, but the way you say he's profiting off free content made it sound like it should be someone's choice other than the developers to dictate how he should or shouldn't monetize. But given your response now I'm thinking you mean you just wouldn't pick it.

The fact many people would, that Lemmy isn't affected one way or another, etc, makes it seem more like preference than morals or something. Just getting a lay of the land of the hate Sync is getting (on Lemmy, too).

It comes across as "we don't profit [like that/at all] so you shouldn't either". But as someone that doesn't see it as unethical, I just see user choice, and in this one case a paid plan subsidized by users that don't mind the ads.

I'm certainly not advocating for a single point of failure, but rather a monetized, competitive space that competes on user experience. More akin to music streaming than movie streaming.

I think Usenet and forum numbers probably pale in comparison to Reddit type platforms. Centralization is easier for mass appeal

Curious how you would prefer this be resolved? Or are you just saying you would have made different decisions and it's fine that Sync is doing what Sync is doing?

Seconded Thunder. Sync will be my home but Thunder has been my hold over and has been very, very good.

You might not be wrong but I wouldn't mind seeing some actual data on the topic (admittedly have not looked). Google feels like a cheap example since their non-ads business model is to throw mud at the wall, and the graveyard is full of tech that did often make it into core apps. I've been on Gmail since forever, which stands as a Google-backed example of my previous comment sans some serious but statistically insignificant drama, which has prompted some to migrate and still have email.

Much of the early internet also isn't there anymore, and running a modern web application that hosts images, gifs, and videos at scale is obviously a different beast than static html where a marquee tag is as fancy as it gets.

My experience also.

To your last paragraph, I don't quite gel with the open source nature of so much of the ecosystem. The core framework being open source makes a lot of sense to me, but the instances being essentially volunteers makes me nervous about future burnout and lack of longevity.

I'm not saying one way is right or wrong, just that it's something I'm watching and forming opinions around, and current state given the number of times Sync can't do something because an API call fails, it makes me wonder if a small subscription to the instance wouldn't be the worst thing.

If an instance (Mastodon, Lemmy, whatever) was run by a business and came as part of a paywall subscription to say, The Economist, I think that might be pretty cool?

Long living instance, more intention being the local communities vs just duplicated meme subreddits, a stronger stance around moderation, etc and enough federating that everyone has choice and there's little centralization.

Seems like a wild generalization.

On these AI generated playlists I'll actually skip songs even if I like them because I'm just cruising through the list, then might go and save a full album from the band to check out later, in full. So the selected behavior is really not representative in my case.

Awesome tool. Always thought about building something like this. One of my thoughts was to take all that data and distill it into a composite "trust" score of some kind, to help make decisions on whether to lean on it or not.

You should see how much fraud I commit with my gym membership.