as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don’t really care what’s going on behind the scenes…

Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago… maybe I’ll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

give up social media? nah that’s too hard for people lol.

page not working on my phone, it keeps blanking out shortly after the page loads. have to try it on my desktop later but thanks for the link!

holy shit, talk about going nuclear. he should have just taken the L, learned from this and moved on…

thats called R&D. I don’t personally spend millions of dollars, but I do spend money on things that never pan out but teach me a lot of lessons I can apply to my next project

this is how I know you’ve never created anything, lol. lots of times, you fail at making something, but you learn from those failures.

who knows what other projects they threw money at and failed, the only one I can think of rn were the steam machines.

I’m sure they learned from those mistakes, tried again, and here we are with the steam deck