Alephwyr
@alephwyr
Actual hot take: A significant fraction of lionized traits are actually maladaptive and making trans beer or whatever other absurdity is a great way to make people with these traits self-select into a large, easily excludable group, to whom your stated logic actually properly applies.
grin π
@grin
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
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hot* take: not everything needs to be inclusive and not every product/brand/platform needs to make everyone happy
*reasonable, common take that most people wonβt say out loud these days
Natalie Minyu Li
@natstarmenu
if everything caters to everyone, then it caters to no one
ted (not lasso)
@ted
exactly!
MisterMutiny
@mistermutiny
I agree, just make your product, if its good, it will make money.
daniel
@pcdkd
What's one you think is trying to make everyone happy but probably shouldn't?
Baikan
@oi
Agreed
ted (not lasso)
@ted
real world: MLB changing (and marketing) its new rules to make baseball appeal to a wider audience -> frustrates loyal baseball fans
crypto world: most NFT projects market to everyone without a target audience in mind
Sally
@sal1y.eth
Know your audience being pretty much Marketing 101, but (a lot of) web3 being so anti traditional biz etc it's not onboarding classical marketing expertise to fix that, thus the NFT 'target everyone, it's a numbers game' model you mention above.
Avi π
@savvyavi
If youβre for everyone, youβre for on one. Period.
ccarella
@ccarella.eth
This is the correct take
Tayyab
@tayyab
How dare you?
July
@july
Reminds me of:
Jackson
@jacks0n
Simple childβs learning
indy
@indy
Passionate users are vital during the early stages of a product but this becomes impossible if you try and cater to everyone.
Additionally, diluting your product into a milquetoast version removes it's 'identity' and this often has negative impacts on team morale.
Kirill
@kp3556.eth
*probably* not what you intended but made me think of
ted (not lasso)
@ted
hahaha we love a good comedy clip
ted (not lasso)
@ted
say more?
Kirill
@kp3556.eth
full Netflix special is π₯
ted (not lasso)
@ted
100%. "But a subset of people will never stop complaining. When a problem becomes less severe, they switch to a different problem. And they will always find some problem that they feel requires their vocal complaint."
i genuinely don't get how anyone could feel good or uplifted for a prolonged time with this mentality
parseb
@parseb
That's where the difference between platforms and protocols should become obvious.
Mac Budkowski π₯
@macbudkowski
picrel found on twitter
daniel
@pcdkd
Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
They're competing in the marketplace and attendance and viewership is up from previous year.
We had similar things with cricket. I like the attrition of the 5 day test match.
But then one day games in the 80s, now T20... Attendance is up, viewership up and importantly junior cricket participation is up
ted (not lasso)
@ted
MLB opening day was 2wks ago so i'm not sure we can claim anything about attendance and viewership YoY yet (unless you're citing the World Baseball Classic, which isn't the MLB).
Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
shorter format cricket sounds like it drove the sport to thrive and also revolutionized the sport globally. cool case study.
ken
@kenergy.eth
Great read. I wonder if there's any way to weight down those "grievance-as-a-lifestyle" comments. Kinda makes sense to me that if you're only able to stand *against* things and don't have anything you stand *for*, comments from those people don't really have much value and should be weighted down appropriately
_slow_crypto
@slowcrypto
Haha. π― reasonable. I run a fashion innovation Telegram for industry pros which I bill as a benevolent dictatorship. Fully noob-free zone. Refreshing.
Ivy πΏ q/dau
@ivy
ya that bud light CEO letter was pretty cringe
πΏππ½πΊ π«§
@punk
With the @ted fightin' the @punk fight..
Les Greys
@les
As long as everyone wears a Fanny pack than itβs okay to be exclusive.
πΉ Zach Harris π₯
@zachharris
Isnβt the tribalism around specific luxury brands evidence of this?
Alephwyr
@alephwyr
Basically believe in a hierarchy of value systems. All observations are theory embedded. Value systems assume an object of their valuation, therefore value systems contain observations and are theory embedded. Value systems are also largely innate. It follows that some people are intrinsically worse than others.
Alephwyr
@alephwyr
Truth is the primary determinant of morality. If some systems "tie" then we can look for secondary determinants or potentially allow pluralism. This is true regardless of whether the origin of a theory is hard wired into a person or not.
Adam
@adam-
people who've wrapped their identity around their grievances get their dopamine hits from punching down on others. They mistake apathy for joy and anger for clarity.
Lydia
@lydia
a steelier version of the straw man youβre countering might be that inclusivity matters for products/brands/platforms under specific conditions and for specific reasons. a more revealing convo imo is what are those conditions and why? where do you draw the line?
July
@july
There are just a subset of the people in the world that just simply want to watch the world burn - if anyone has ever worked in the service industry, you'd know that there are just a small percentage of people that no matter what you'd do they'd be unhappy - whether it's attributable to that time or just in nature
July
@july
this is one of the problems - the exact type of people that'd participate in this type of discourse often tend to be the folks that make these types of "grievance-as-a-lifestyle" comments. weighing them down means not having a discourse at all - hence you see a lot of websites not having comment sections these days
ken
@kenergy.eth
Right, I think websites like NPR (the example in the article) have the luxury to disable comments if they realize the comments is overly serving their small percentage of shouting class readership.
Do social media platforms like bird apps have that luxury as well? Or maybe this will be up to FC clients as a feature?