chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: [email protected]. Ava is a sloth cake.
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The next vibe shift is bishi
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is techno-french-baroque the new aesthetic?
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hah this is the peril of being a recommender!
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yeah as someone else is saying, you can customize the front feed really easily bsky.app/profile/maia... There are very simple ways to change how the interface works, which is not the case with any other major social network
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Technically since bsky is an open protocol, you or anyone else could program an interface without that feature — it doesn’t force anything on you
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trad browsing only
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I'm immersion living
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same tbh. though I enjoy that Dia is clearly named after the art foundation
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note these are all canonically real pokedexes
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since 1996, technology has been on an endless quest to make pokemon real
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and each device will apparently come with its own unique 'digital monster'
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You'll be able to easily attach the device to your clothing
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yeah it would be really interesting to have some shorthand for how tied-in someone is to a network — following and followers are a good signal, paid subs (in some hypothetical world) would be interesting
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the live Netflix John Mulaney show lol. Yeah, it's like, everything looks increasingly similar in quality, which more people can participate in, thus it's harder to judge from production quality how much effort really went into something
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in fact I wrote about that way back in 2016! www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13... forgot about it til now
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"On Doomscroll, my goal is to platform a wide array of guests from across the political spectrum. I want to produce the best quality video interviews with the most influential voices of this moment." joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/a-new-pipe...
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back in the blogging day, you had signals of quality like webrings, who put you in their blog roll, a slowly developed aura of authority and interconnection. But that was organic and not contained in a platform
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as you should