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2026-07-08 04:45:32 UTC

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For capabilities, GIMP is similar to 2012 era Photoshop (CS6). There are plugins that can fill specific gaps, but plugin stability and UI completeness are all over the place. Plan to spend time evaluating random GitHub repos.
That said, GIMP acting like 2012 era Photoshop could cover most people's main use cases up until paint programs with AI features arrived.

2026-07-07 02:54:52 UTC

In school, we learned that different portions of the tongue were sensitive to different tastes. It turns out this was fabricated; an exaggeration of the findings of a 1901 experiment. Correlation between taste and tongue area is weak to non-existent.
What else were the teachers confidently wrong about? https://blossom.primal.net/a428f0795135d06dfe45503a3d91344c2fb92abaf02cf341350957100dba814c.png

2026-07-06 15:25:42 UTC

These mental reframes are so valuable.
https://image.nostr.build/3111bd140952f9d15c1490033d5cf55fe528d6781d29440ae4504c46c74d65d5.jpg

2026-07-06 15:18:13 UTC

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Do yourself a favor and get a cheap bicycle pump with a pressure gauge and an adapter for the ball, too. You’ll find you need to top it off occasionally; it’s nice to be able to get it to a consistent height and firmness.

2026-07-06 14:30:21 UTC

Saying "this is beautiful, here's why" is genuinely more vulnerable than saying "this is overrated."

2026-07-05 19:40:14 UTC

Generally, I assume almost nobody will read anything I write here or on fediverse sites. It's a place to practice writing succinctly.
Then I remember that censorship resistance is closely related to easy scraping; public, permissionless availability means the machines can read it too. Nostr posts are the most accessible LLM training data, while the managed platforms increasingly lock social media posts behind paid API deals.
So if you’re not writing pseudonymously and you don't have much of a public footprint, don't be surprised if your Nostr history becomes the core of what models know about you.

2026-07-05 19:27:40 UTC

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Webb lays out some background on Polymarket. Since it's already a powerful force, her claim that the origin has been obscured warrants attention.
Polymarket isn't just a place to bet on politics. It's a place where political odds turn into media narratives, donor signals, campaign inputs, and voter expectations.
It sounds like Part 2 will cover the maximal version of that shift. We already see attempts to steer prediction-market graphs against polling data close to elections. The amount of money involved suggests the incentives are not theoretical.
#nevent1q…snql

2026-07-05 18:35:43 UTC

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This just confuses me: Isn't getting a Nostr account going in the first place already something of a filter for susceptibility?
Yet, they scammers keep coming. Would they be so active it if it didn't work? Are they blindly copying each other, assuming the other guy found a winning recipe when they're both actually starving?

2026-07-05 18:29:31 UTC

Episode 1 of Chainsmoker Cat just aired, and the reactions are as funny as the anime.
A cat girl is ruining her life with a high time-preference slacker lifestyle, including the headline nicotine addiction. It's deliberately weird, and we've forgotten how to enjoy that.
Every response has people reading their personal viewpoints in. They're disgusted by or attracted to the dirty slacker lifestyle. They're scared it promotes smoking, or glad it portrays it as ruinous. They find the catgirl hot, or think it lampoons catgirls entirely, and there's someone further angry or enthused about whichever of those interpretations they land on.
No two people are watching the same cartoon. But there's something in it for everybody, even people who can't be happy without something to be mad about. This one's going to be interesting. https://blossom.primal.net/e8b9f94162728229ac4c6c8d58eb003a8c6005ec3c941a78a59a8b4d07cdc3e3.png

2026-07-05 18:04:49 UTC

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When smaller countries create toxic privacy laws, it pushes people toward VPNs.
If the US does creates toxic privacy laws, we also lose a majority of the important VPN destinations.
We're on a bad, bad trajectory.

2026-07-05 17:55:39 UTC

Opinions on automated retaliation are a surprisingly good maturity test for infosec applicants.

2026-07-05 17:50:28 UTC

It's day two of figuring out why the $250 electric toothbrush crash-loops after each brushing.
The great authors never warned against my particular flavor of dystopia.

2026-07-05 17:09:08 UTC

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Aesthetically, it’s nice. But it’s strange that it still doesn’t run at native resolution on iPad. That’s so rare for modern apps.

2026-01-02 21:53:08 UTC

Why is @nprofile…uz3y built for iOS only, and not for iPad? They already support dynamic screen sizes for different iPhone models.
Would eliminating letterboxing and enabling multitasking views be as simple as Gemini suggests? https://gemini.google.com/share/3f8602dd2049

2026-01-02 18:13:26 UTC

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Android still allows apps to detect what other apps are installed? That's as much an OS problem as an app problem, assuming you didn't have to consent to some kind of device management profile first.
It's not unreasonable that an app developer would flag a sideloaded version of a password manager. It likely points to problems far more often than it points to people enacting extra-strong security controls or doing legitimate local builds. But it's not reasonable if the OS enables this capability by default.

2025-12-25 16:01:20 UTC

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The EU age control problem: Implementation without collateral privacy loss relies on trusting institutions that have proven untrustworthy.

2025-12-25 15:57:54 UTC

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Wild, I never saw it at this level!

2025-12-25 04:07:03 UTC

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It's true of a small subset of the documents. It could be incompetence. It could also be an attempt to draw attention to those documents or distract from others.

2025-12-25 03:55:19 UTC

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty says they plead guilty to "operating a money transmitting business that transmitted crime proceeds, washing more than $200 million in dirty money for criminals"
5 years is the maximum penalty for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. They could have faced the same even if they did it on paper at that scale.

2025-11-19 18:27:00 UTC

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Fixed. https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

2025-11-18 13:20:36 UTC

The number of Nostr sites and clients affected by the Cloudflare outage? A little surprising. Please don’t do that.

2025-08-20 14:14:12 UTC

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In my testing, I don’t have the same problem with all Nostr clients. It’s something unique to the combination of Primal without its privacy proxy enabled and VPN clients. I’ve tried multiple privacy VPNs and multiple Nostr clients. Primal’s web and mobile apps are both affected. And iOS and multiple Chromium-based desktop browsers are affected. (Not tested other browsers yet.) No clear causal mechanism - traffic just stops after a while.

2025-08-20 14:00:40 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/08b2aaff1d88d1f473caaaaaed7f22133e2c3813805475a1336f84180d4d6d3d.jpg

2025-08-12 16:14:46 UTC

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AI dying - do you see a path to that happening?

2025-08-08 22:36:06 UTC

ProtonVPN seems to make a lot of relays unhappy. Using Primal's anonymizing proxy is an okay workaround, but I'm curious about the problem. Is it Proton's lack of Windows and macOS IPv6 support? Or do many relays block VPN traffic?

2025-08-07 04:38:02 UTC

I get my vitamin D by encountering random HDR images and videos on my timeline.

2025-08-07 04:36:00 UTC

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You should be able to do it right on the phone. https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68942cf538908191b6f47ce5146bacc5

2025-08-06 21:29:36 UTC

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It's using AAC audio (MP4). I don't think Firefox supports that by default. If your video encoder lets you choose, try MP3, Opus, or Vorbis.

2025-08-05 23:46:13 UTC

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People aren't just memeing - it's a real story? https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-federalize-dc-ex-210318658.html

2025-08-05 23:42:36 UTC

Your parents found this commercial highly appetizing. https://blossom.primal.net/298e300a79344205716a9467425438c1dc1f66417f25bba036203734ee937fd7.png

2025-08-05 23:30:17 UTC

ngl, I'm ambivalent about any politician. But I was kind of happy to learn he likes these. https://blossom.primal.net/1d889f093effaf39b0ed3f92ceca69daa401b596f64de6a4be7a5800d69aa512.png

2025-08-05 23:25:48 UTC

I relate so hard https://blossom.primal.net/eadfe80658a49d24003fd94746e347ee7c8a2d9a26d4618df9aff3eeb577c313.png

2025-08-05 23:23:07 UTC

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2025-08-05 23:22:33 UTC

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2025-08-05 23:21:56 UTC

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2025-08-05 23:20:34 UTC

🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨 Client List Released!!!
https://blossom.primal.net/bb1bed6225dadd9fbc131f82b9916abb6f86444eb0bab1408c2417d55803e77b.png

2025-08-05 22:52:08 UTC

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2025-08-05 22:48:10 UTC

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It's so awkward when grandma comes over. And you have to get all her knitted gifts out of storage so she thinks you enjoy them.

2025-08-05 18:22:49 UTC

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Exactly. People still have to trust the software. Since that trust is already established, software could ship with checksums for some later starting blocks in order to allow a more recent starting point.

2025-08-05 18:21:18 UTC

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The real answer is likely "because it didn't seem like such a big deal 900,000 blocks ago."

2025-08-05 18:04:07 UTC

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I'm new. Does the lightning bolt button blast it away?

2025-08-05 18:00:18 UTC

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I feel silly for not being able to withdraw a "like" on Nostr. There's no supporting evidence for this video. https://fullfact.org/politics/hmrc-not-introducing-enhanced-customs-monitoring/

2025-08-05 17:56:30 UTC

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Few people remember what birds looked like before the towers were upgraded to 5G. https://blossom.primal.net/0bd6c21b47d78732e4e8e083c4c8daa50ed2c15407f7230942b1a965fce60934.png https://blossom.primal.net/e5348aa21c861dfd83eb1716add0271cc8992ac87b17f359444332848ef54148.png https://blossom.primal.net/23320f2cf945ec6ab450c9bead5a0f4bfa4662e4f59f6e888807ee55a66ea37e.png https://blossom.primal.net/8237632d0d7ad3c714216ac6dfba980b43c6f253701dc38d3cfe3d398c08b68b.png

2025-08-05 17:55:18 UTC

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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/dead-birds-get-new-life-new-mexico-researchers-develop-taxidermy-bird-drones-2023-04-13/ https://blossom.primal.net/aa5a027841f7c8735880f79a582e8f49f09783d3a51176d22338095f67a1174e.jpg

2025-08-05 17:54:36 UTC

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Important update: https://blossom.primal.net/5c39a2a129b10c241cdeb6574429b7566a516529cd7c433415164c422bd71616.jpg

2025-08-05 17:53:57 UTC

I've said it before. I don't like posting politics, but: https://blossom.primal.net/d2c5507be5a5bb3c68fde7c93904354db51b4c44e68ed55dbc62ee3b7ec9e06a.png

2025-08-05 16:16:31 UTC

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Why are atheism and antitheism still bundled under the "atheism" label? (Or atheist and anti-Christian, for that matter)

2025-08-05 15:20:39 UTC

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Discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939 suggests this story is misleading click bait.

2025-08-05 15:14:56 UTC

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Everything sounds anti-Semitic if we mauld hard enough

2025-08-05 15:08:36 UTC

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How's that working out for iPhone jailbreakers?

2025-08-05 14:20:33 UTC

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They usually review name changes same-day now. But I’m convinced they also set a knob per account that limits reach. If the name mentions another social network or offensive term, they dial down the probability of posts being shown to non-followers.
Elon had a pretty heavy hand back when people were still advocating for mass migration to Mastodon or Threads.

2025-08-05 05:25:53 UTC

Nostr signing would be a great addition to a password manager. Bitwarden and ProtonPass are open source. Would they accept the PR?

2025-08-05 03:50:09 UTC

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Likewise, the churches sever any connection with the eternal, trying to be modern and relatable. Then they wonder why younger generations stop feeling compelled to show up.

2025-08-05 03:46:08 UTC

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Somebody called it "the marketplace of idea." [sic] That's stuck with me since.

2025-08-05 03:36:00 UTC

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The Dutch are gonna regret missing out. The price is finding a new flower. Just a perennial phase. HOLLANDL to the MOON 🌷 🚀 🌙

2025-08-05 03:00:13 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/118b58380df5bcdb79f8925cc2e0158d45ccb9efcd54922a35f5b57ec31d3b71.jpg

2025-08-05 02:59:44 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/9f5dc9c43d183f9658ff7467bbb6bae55ef2dee731553f9e1a158571c2665bfd.jpg

2025-08-05 02:59:16 UTC

Microsoft CoPirate
https://image.nostr.build/16ef71a0392a533b91cca998fb5658c9ad1f24abbd7902944a10fc47be4e693c.jpg

2025-08-05 02:58:30 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/37d72834bec07c0a5ad0e1368570d419223a9290c0ff58a927fcb6f39de2f25c.jpg

2025-08-05 02:55:16 UTC

Debian Testing is the rolling distro you keep asking for. But you're too scared to handle a real OS.

2025-08-05 02:48:22 UTC

I dare somebody to ship an app that combines this with Electron
https://image.nostr.build/6fa833da3ce5594e1bdba31c79102682bb09136a54bae1a3f77400c5dca7529e.png

2025-08-05 02:45:20 UTC

Theory: ERP with bots has a non-zero skill transference to GitHub Copilot. People who get really good at erotic roleplay and overcoming context rot with AI chatbots are accidentally building the most transferable skill in tech.

2025-08-05 02:42:25 UTC

And they say LLMs can't do humor…
https://image.nostr.build/1847862ae7ddfbb4b5655c237292411f1dd054d8e5ebe2dfa0fc03635858f758.jpg

2025-08-05 02:39:50 UTC

“You should write it in Rust”
https://image.nostr.build/771488b33a95b448484b4522e811295b3bc8febcecb7692d5a203239b1c1e41f.jpg

2025-08-05 02:37:30 UTC

Bragging about how many domain experts are in your MoE LLM is easy. Admitting there’s a fanservice expert in the mix? That takes real courage.

2025-08-05 02:36:34 UTC

Security control families (e.g., NIST CSF's Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) are all layered like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The efficacy of each function can't be any better than the last layer.
https://image.nostr.build/90d152e35c19cab5880012d6ec931d6f9bf05a5b99597734bf5af1b2359d1590.jpg

2025-08-05 02:34:59 UTC

How do I hire vibe coders with good RNG?

2025-08-05 02:33:29 UTC

Disregard AI comparison benchmarks that hide Eliza.

2025-08-05 02:32:03 UTC

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I finally settled on "👨🏻‍⚖️ NSA SPY VAN 🚐"

2025-08-05 02:31:42 UTC

I recently learned that emoji work in SSIDs.
https://image.nostr.build/e324fa6f2879ac9bdb68d660c87063d7ffaef4c7ef961dac1546d693234c740c.jpg

2025-08-05 02:28:45 UTC

Sometimes people brag to me about how little sleep they get.
My take is rarely a "wow!"
It's more often "well, that explains a lot."

2025-08-05 02:26:50 UTC

I get a lot of pushy "how soon can we book a meeting?" vendor spam. Would it be rude to schedule them all for a single shared Google Meet each week?
I'm not going. But they can keep each other company...

2025-08-05 02:25:20 UTC

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If anyone isn't familiar with $(), Bash executes the command within the parentheses and substitutes the expression with the command output. AI is testing the script for security defects, but this rm command would run before the tested script is even invoked.

2025-08-05 02:24:18 UTC

Quickly clicking through GitHub Copilot agent command requests is a high-stakes game of Simon Says.
I almost had a heart attack.
https://blossom.primal.net/ba8c5fa17a5dcd43545e741156c26367c74590d0ba31f756148eed5dc42ac5b9.jpg

2025-08-05 02:22:05 UTC

Nobody said PowerShell. I checked.
https://blossom.primal.net/48a55a7c019ceff4b2b0bfee99d608a0c9b690679bf57d670422f3c94c2f514c.png

2025-08-05 02:20:16 UTC

Prompt Writing Tip: "Thank you" burns tokens. "Good girl" gets results.

2025-08-05 02:16:06 UTC

Microsoft pulled the rug on DRM-encumbered book customers in 2019.
Then they did it again for music in 2012 with Zune.
And yet again for music, killing Groove, disabling playback in 2017.
And then Windows Phone apps in 2020.
Somehow, customers reacting to Microsoft closing down film and TV sales in 2025:
https://image.nostr.build/c272c572d58a2a583543dab3b1d48c3f1aa1e27c84459d992aef379f4e235bb1.gif

2025-08-05 02:07:25 UTC

All the major AI chat systems are able to search the web now. What are the remaining best use cases for Perplexity?

2025-08-05 02:06:45 UTC

Your website asks why I chose not to do something it kept pushing me to do.
Would you want an "Other" answer with "oppositional defiance?"
Or have I done you a favor by leaving the survey unanswered?

2025-08-05 00:08:24 UTC

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Some sites show UK visitors a footer with links to VPN introductions. It’s a fair compromise. 😅

2025-08-04 23:35:29 UTC

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ProtonVPN is a solid choice. Mullvad should make the cut too. They have the best IPv6 handling, which helps with P2P protocols like BitTorrent.

2025-08-04 23:26:22 UTC

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It takes a conscious and deliberate mind shift. “I’m sitting down to think strategy” versus “I’m flowing through cool implementation details.” It can help to box off a time or a place for the former.

2025-08-04 21:40:19 UTC

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He’s TRYING to look creepy, right? I mean, he can’t not know by now…

2025-08-04 17:06:48 UTC

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What are the current best options for a private relay? strfry on a VPS?

2025-08-04 16:47:13 UTC

Does using paid relays like nostr.land or nostr.wine change the experience much? What are the most visible effects?

2025-08-04 14:06:19 UTC

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You think that’s bad? Just wait until you learn the dangers of the wi-fi connection…

2025-08-04 13:59:32 UTC

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Wait for the next major urban unrest involving affluent youth. We can expect tons of Bitchat screenshots from journalists standing at the perimeter. The trolling and fake op opportunities will be endless.

2025-08-04 05:09:12 UTC

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Amazon has competing sellers on the site. Each has a different strategy on bundling, and on waiting out lower-margin sales.

2025-08-03 02:19:17 UTC

Using Proton VPN full-time on desktop and mobile works pretty well. I’ve been testing for about a week. So far, the only real difference is that some social media sites require me to be signed-in to view content. Even Banks work now. Even the performance of the VPN is much better than it was previously. The speed penalty is negligible.
With a similar experiment a couple of years back, half my banking services wouldn’t let me log in. My Twitter account would frequently get locked out of the blue. I don’t think there was a way to view Reddit at all either.

2025-08-02 17:32:17 UTC

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Not having an off switch (ideally automatic, using geofencing) makes me anxious about keeping it installed when not experimenting.

2025-08-02 00:03:25 UTC

Gonna let the cute gold digger “accidentally” see my Satoshi balance. Let’s hope she’s bad at math.

2025-08-02 00:00:43 UTC

I know somebody with a dozen domain names and still no website

2025-08-02 00:00:21 UTC

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Suddenly, one can imagine becoming 10% poorer overnight because Salesforce or Atlassian buys a popular wallet and changes the terms.

2025-08-01 19:12:07 UTC

Eagerly awaiting the first Bitchat meet-cute story

2025-08-01 19:09:05 UTC

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KYC/AML is the end boss as your dollar fights its way to freedom

2025-08-01 19:04:40 UTC

Disappointed because someone already registered onlyzaps.com

2025-08-01 16:44:41 UTC

If it's Swift, I vibe-coded it while watching a movie.
If it's Python, I took turns with the robot.
If it's C/C++, I might have grudgingly accepted an autocomplete along the way. But it hurt my pride.
If it's 680x0 or 6502, it's Friday and I'm back on the bottle. But it's really damned good code.

2025-08-01 16:37:42 UTC

Damus on desktop is one crashy boi. It hangs a lot, usually when opening my own profile.

2025-08-01 16:34:37 UTC

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Discord employees review and disclose “private” chats for entertainment. They disclose chats along with user and device metadata for ideological purposes. It’s for the best that they set expectations by requiring phone numbers.

2025-08-01 15:48:14 UTC

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I’ve got anxiety about what I’d actually say once I encounter a user in the wild. I’m looking down at my phone so I don’t have to learn small talk!