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   Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 18:52:24 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

   Something that really sucks and no one ever talks about is how the guy who created Lang-8 got distracted by the appification of everything, and created Hi-Native as an alternative with a heavy focus on app platforms and, of course, a different pricing model. It's really very poor compared to Lang-8. Lang-8 was infinitely better. But he even went as far as to shut down signups and Lang-8 has been slowly dying ever since, while Hi-Native has never achieved the same success.

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     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 19:12:13 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

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     @ton Wow I felt like I was the only person who had noticed this! It's reassuring that I'm not. I just tried out a question on Hi-Native after posting this, and almost immediately I got an "answer" from an AI-based language learning tool that masquerades as a user and answer everyone's questions immediately. Can't help but feel that's only going to discourage genuine users from responding... but it looks like if I now don't acknowledge the answer it'll affect my account 🙃

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     TON (ton@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 19:12:15 JST TON

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     I know! Such a shame.

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     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 19:39:49 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

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     @ton It's as though they don't even want premium customers 😅

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     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 19:43:08 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

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     @ton Now it looks like every question will get this underneath it, too 🤦♀️ This is really so bad. I can't believe they found a way to make it worse.