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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • 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.