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   woke on a whaleheart (harneyb@decept.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 08:12:35 JST woke on a whaleheart
   LRT: I don't fully align with what is treated as "boring" or "funny", but yassie made a quality longpost about T2/Pebble that goes deeper into its flaws, more than any generic press release or cursory content mill like CNet would. Also another stake in the core of why VC investment is bad long-term plan. Especially when you need 5 million but can only get 3 million for growing Twitter2. Lol
   
   To contrast, compare their postmortem with a user that looked upon their experience more favorably. Also more detailed than the founders shutdown announcement. prysmcat.com/blog/2023/10/learning-from-t2-pebble/
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     woke on a whaleheart (harneyb@decept.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 17:26:07 JST woke on a whaleheart

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     Actually had a whole 1000 character post that I made a week or two ago but Tusky chewed it up & am only now rewriting this part.
     
     Those failed ambitions for T1/Pebble gave me a very similar sense as to when the Yesterweb forum & webring shut down. Both were communities that I knew about on a cursory knowledge but never interacted with, but also have great critical posts detailing flaws.
     
     suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterweb
     
     In the case of Yesterweb, it comes from another outsider-looking-in that then scrutinizes multiple official statements. The funny thing is, if I had known that the people running it were trying to build something more than myopic nostalgia, I would have been down to give out a shred of attention to them. But I only saw Yesterweb in the same lens as how Spacehey was created, or the weird feuding that fuels VidLii.
     
     It's what I absolutely get why the Yesterweb webring was shutdown. Because they knew that history was repeating, if on a smaller scale.