DoorDash supplanting meals on wheels is terrible. I don’t mean to argue otherwise.

I think awareness of the options was really low, though. And that’s probally what I’m speaking to. And I expect my ignorance was shared. I see your point though. And I can see how I was speaking from ignorance there.

While maybe more people are aware of a way to deliver food and basic supplies in the era of DoorDash, I never really meant to defend them. It just made sense to me that the pervasiveness of DoorDash is improving access. But it’s definitely not improving affordability. Not at all, holy shit.

Pizza every day isn’t great.

And those other contexts were not as pervasive as DoorDash has become.

Oh, that’s probally true. But those were a long time ago. And the users were still self selecting and in the right headspace.

We have crossed a threshold with the internet and awareness of possible places to be a shithead at these days. If you know what I mean. A certain mentality bands together to seek out how to fuck these spaces up, now.

It’s like the early days of VR. The social spaces were great until VR got cheaper and more common. Now you need to hunt out the good groups and social circles and they are hard to find.

That’s a great title

It only seems marginally smaller than a small mouse? huh.

Yeah, solid evidence is always good.

I feel like I’ve always seen these described as addressing issues other than climate, though. So it’s good to learn they can at least be even with traditional farms with the right energy sources.

But my even heat! :cough cough:

Well, it’s definitely tangential. The only overlap is how their refunds don’t actually fix anything and there is no path to actually addressing the original customer intent. A new order would be more money, and a gamble on the same error happening (maybe even intentional neglect by the people at the restaurant). And having to go out and get it yourself breaks the whole reason you engaged with the company at all.

It’s a very broken customer service system they have. And it has to be that way to keep their margins.

It’ll take a lot of effort to keep the systems from being exploitable like that, I expect. And maybe so much structure will be needed that it’ll become rather un-fun.

I use to be excited about such systems and ideas in games. But I’ve come to realize that players will break and ruin anything you put in front of them.

Has someone built this as a SaaS product yet?

It’s like DoorDash giving you a partial refund and not actually getting you what you ordered when there is a fuckup by the restaurant.

How satisfied are you with your customer support? I didn’t get what I fucking ordered!

It makes this supposedly being an American phone even more ironic.

woof. Why can’t platforms just be themselves.

Also, Twitter tried this under Elon and recently changed their minds after, I assume, it didn’t work out like they had hoped?

Ratchet effect.

Endless clutter on digital storefronts like the App Store and Google Play does kind of suck.

And it happens because of how anyone can go through the steps to get stuff up there. And now with vibe coded software, the problem is just going to continue to grow. I already hear stories of people putting up vibe coded apps just for personal use. It’s wild. And none of this helps discoverability, or the image of any storefront.

We need curation more than ever as a tsunami of slop is dumped on us from every digital direction. But that’s just one true angle on the whole topic of App distribution. I know. Curation can co-exist with other solutions addressing other issues with App distribution platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play.

“It will be a federated decentralized face database that lives on each users phone.”

Yeah, it’s really sad.

Well, it’s not in the sheets.

What’s his name?

lol what? I’ve never heard this stereotype.