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They are also important for VR content. You need a lot of pixels to fill someone’s Field of View.

That’s true. I’m thinking of the subscribe/follow aspect.

Social media should never be someone’s primary website too. IMO. But people are lazy.

They don’t even want email anymore, they want you to message them with X or Instagram or whatever.

RSS really should be more common.

You use your get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.

Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.

I hope many organizations and groups follow suit.

This is part of the fall of Twitter.

There were two paths for Twitter, in the eyes of many idealistic people like me. One path was something terrible like what happened with Musk. The second path was one that treated it as a public commons of the world.

That second path is how many grew to understand Twitter during its rise and peak. This is why there are so many situations where various public and governmental groups used it as a notification feed/system.

You can go on about how they should just start their own ActivityPub based solution, or move to bluesky or whatever. But it’s not that simple for all of them. Nor are all of the groups involved in posting these feels that technically savvy to do so. Twitter made it easy, and it made sense.

The article could have easily been just as absurd if it was about how people didn’t get the alert because the alerts were moved to a mastodon instance and people are upset because they don’t want to have to go through the trouble of picking a server. heh.

It’s so unfortunate that Twitter went this way. No more free and easy api, no more third party apps and tools. No more expectation that everyone is there. No more expectation that public alerts make sense there.

Yes, centralizing all of this is a big problem. And musk is just one example of why. But, it could have gone the other way.

Fuck that. Not cool.

Oh shit, I missed it then.

Edit: I just took a look again and I was mistaken. He mentions their name twice in the last minute of the video. Early on he refers to it as its own company.

When MKB commented on the situation, he avoided dropping the name PayPal. Seemingly on purpose. Just in case it would help him in the future.

Yeah, I’m mostly responding to the people I perceive to always shit on VR by mocking the idea of a metaverse or Meta’s version of a metaverse.

People dismiss the whole medium because of Zuck going wild with metaverse hype, and causing the whole industry to make all these nonsense metaverse claims.

Even Microsoft Teams was boasting about metaverse aspects at one point.

People love to shit on VR because Meta pulled all that metaverse bullshit. But VR just keeps growing. Slowly, but it’s growing.

There’s no evidence it’s stopping yet.

In fact, Samsung and Google are jumping back in. And we have some of the lightest headsets ever made on the market right now.

VR is in a slow upswing.