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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    As another example, Google used to be actually a quite good search engine that pushed the competition to obscurity and collapse because it was that useful and easy to use.

    Over time, SEO bloat and monopolistic rot has made Google a worse product over time, to the point where the "Google it" :very-intelligent: thought terminating cliche has some actual exceptions to it, depending on what you're looking for now.

    Especially when it comes to applications of the same technological paradigm (online dating compared to "riding down to the Sody-Pop shop to see if any boys want to buy you a malt" as you put it), it's a fairly predictable outcome that :porky-happy: will extract more and more profit at the expense of the actual product or service's quality over time, and the cycle repeats the next time something replaces the old technology.

    I predict chatbots and related technology will have a similar "worse and greedier" trending rate over time in the near future, too.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I have favorites. There's a lot of emojis I don't remember the names of even if I want to use them. :spaghett:

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I enjoy the options. It doesn't take effort to remember them if I've used them a few times before. :edgeworth-shrug:

            Also, if I used less emojis and used those fewer varieties more often, I'd likely get shit for using those particular emojis too often instead. :no-choice:

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I haven't used that word contextually like that for almost half a year now. Not worth the backlash. :debord-tired:

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  Considering how he's passionately and even vindictively defended for his repeated emphasis on "historically accurate" :awooga: :libertarian-alert: (this one especially in the novels) :hypersus: in a historically accurate tale of ice zombies and dragons where the takeaway message is "yeah things are bad but trying to make them better is naive, just enjoy the historically accurate :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: in a totally not hog hungry way like millions of consumers surely do," yeah sure I'd use that one.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              We need an entirely separate site that's just a marked up index of all the emotes that you can search through.