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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • You could say this exact same thing about any invention.

    “But why would anyone want to speak into a wire? There’s literally no point.”

    “Are you seriously going to wrap your food in plastic? There’s literally no point.”

    “Who will want to type on a phone without any buttons? There’s literally no point.”

    “Nobody is going to want to eat meat grown in a lab. There’s literally no point.”

    Not everything needs to be built with a use in mind, and even if it has a small user base at first, needs change over time. For all we know this is visionary and ahead of its time, but we don’t know it yet.






  • You’re reading too much into my comment.

    I am a software engineer, and am always thinking of user experiences in my day job. This is simply the scenario that popped into my mind, but many do exist.

    Besides hacking, phishing scams, and pranks. Users trick others all the time into viewing content they didn’t mean to view.

    My concern isn’t so much that this can happen at all, but rather that if views were public, how it’d be trivial to write software that auto bans users based on those views. Without great moderation tools, and petitioning it wouldn’t scale well.