start your own company

In most cases, that’s the opposite of chill.

As do remote, responsibilities and autonomy

i'm worried they'll start making user unfriendly changes, like more ads, to meet investor demands for increased profits. overall it's a great product which i use everyday and i'm happy for them.

unfortunately, the user-unfriendly changes started years ago, especially around 2023. Having used it since 2016, you can tell that post covid is when they shifted from consumer-focused to revenue-focused; just look at how many people are outraged by the appearance of embedded ads, game "quests", nitro feature-stealing, discord profile purchasable customizations, and (one that not many people talk about) trendy corporate habits like year recaps and T&C changes.

Given their per user pricing model, who's going to pay for this for any given community? Discord is mostly popular in communities where self-organized funding would be realistic.

Zulip's product lead here. Communities are eligible for a free Community plan if they self-host, and there are discounts and sponsorships available for Zulip Cloud as well.

i am tired of ads, algorithmic curation, public-ness, anonymity, and scale

i still crave social interaction but have moved to smaller private group chats with real people i either see in real life or have an ongoing connection with

united has free messaging on their flights and i found myself using meta's ai chatbot via whatsapp a few times. it's system prompt forces it to ask me inane questions at the end of every action so i would be happy to switch to something else.

just tried making one using this and it initially was way too casual for me and i didn't like how it split responses into many messages but it's very responsive to my prompts to change its style.

is "time for 2 instruments, learning C++, Rust, and Python" not schooling ?

He's still learning. Driven by what he loves. And this is on top of the "standard" stuff.

the service area still stops at Burlingame for me without peninsula access yet

the lack of a college degree as a credential may also prove to be a barrier to leaving the company over time

I think it's a coincidence. The Hong Kong CHOICE article is from 2020. The Australian CHOICE article is from 2025. I don't think there's any connection between the two publications other than the name and their general purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_%28Australian_consumer_...

Army press release: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

> The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

Oh, great, vertical integration between the violence organizations and the three worst and most amoral companies in tech. I’m sure nothing bad will come out of this.

Where’s Luckey and Anduril? Did he not pass the drug test?

You are not a real corporatocracy until you don't have military ranks just for your C-suite pals

Probably just waiting for him to get the IPO he's been teasing done first.

If it makes you feel better, Bob McGrew is ex-Palantir too.

how are client apps ? i'm open to switching but my weakest link is having an easy to install and use roku or android tv app that my parents can use

I use jellycon on a Ugoos AM6b+ with Coreelec.. the setup is kinda Messy but once it’s set up with some theming and some library tweaks, it feels like any other streaming device .. Roku .. or android box .. maybe snappier