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Sweet. Thanks for the details!

VRChat is still slowly growing in the background.

The metaverse that was the hype you despise isn’t the metaverse people in VRChat want. Mark really destroyed the term.

The releases/changelog have been weird for a little while now on the PWA.

I feared mine would get broken too, but so far I’m ok. I’m on iOS.

Anyone have insight into why the changelog has been weird? And there was a set of updates that seemed to do nothing recently?

Edit: going back and viewing the recent releases in GitHub they don’t look “blank” or weird or duplicate like they were… maybe they were all hand fixed? - I stand by the feeling that recently things have been odd. I had the user vote tracking appear in the PWA multiple updates before it showed up in the changelog.

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I would not have guessed that reply guys replying to really popular accounts would ever check if their reply is a duplicate.

I didn’t catch that this is why Alec stopped posting there. I assumed he was just being sensitive to being a public figure in general.

When you make a channel that is filled with “well actually” and “turns out.” You should expect your audience is into doing the same.

And when you don’t have an algorithm filtering these for you… well, then you get the reality of other people’s interactions. Twitter just optionally hides this reality from big accounts. (I’m talking about what they use to label “low quality replies” or something similar.)

The federation issues of replies/boosts/hearts/etc are still a big bummer, though.

They want an algorithm.

As much as people mock it, or know it’s the source of why social media optimizes for outrage and other unhealthy behaviors, the algorithm is what they are missing on Mastodon.

As someone who always used third party Twitter apps, and never directly saw the algorithm in my timeline, mastodon feels like Twitter always did.

Damn. They need to revert this change. I don’t get why they would have made it.

I’m also sad that everynoise was halted. Spotify, man. Their recommendations are their only strength.

I don’t think mine was 200 either. Nor is/was discover weekly. And I have used both for years now for the purpose the post says, seeking new music for djing/playlists.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a bug that quietly inflated a certain percentage of playlists.

I think I’d like larger playlists for both playlists though!

I want to start using this.

I knew this was Ian Bogost before I clicked the link.

That sounds icky in the hand…

Seems like ColorWare style painting is a better option. (But much more expensive.)

Thanks!