

You are right. I thought it was just a different take on the flipboard client, but more focused on the different feeds.
You are right. I thought it was just a different take on the flipboard client, but more focused on the different feeds.
I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…
Simple. “Log in with Google” is a lot less friction than getting people to sign up to a new service. Even more so for a mobile-focused application like Surf/Flipboard.
doesn’t exist elsewhere.
Isn’t it “just” a feed reader with a pre-curated list of feeds? Doing that is not complicated. The hard part is doing it in a way that it is easy for non-techies.
If your goal is to get the masses to try something new, making it as easy as possible to onboard them makes absolute sense. That includes letting them sign up using something that 98.123456789% of the people use.
And if you already are out of Big Tech hell hole, then you likely already know how to find and manage and curate your own feeds.
Any particular reason to keep it private?
Network effects are incredibly strong
Yet, Bluesky has grown to 35M+ active accounts, even though they started way after us
We have the advantage that we’re not growth focused
This is not an “advantage”. This is an excuse we tell ourselves to cope with our failures.
The inevitable enshittification will do its job eventually,
And when it does, the majority of people will go the next shiny “free as in beer”, VC-funded siloed platform and we are going to be just another “They don’t know” meme.
Isn’t it a little bit sad to think that the best we can do here is to wait for everyone else to get pissed at Big Tech’s fuckups?
Yeah, both. It’s flatlining globally and down in the UK.
What’s in the Y access?