Lex
@lexario.bsky.social
Popup-fatigue is definitely partially to blame, but I also think about how 90% of the text and warnings online are meaningless now, anyway. We don't get popups like "couldn't bind port 5476" we get "Uh-oh the worblox got squanched! Try again later!"
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Popup-fatigue is definitely partially to blame, but I also think about how 90% of the text and warnings online are meaningless now, anyway. We don't get popups like "couldn't bind port 5476" we get "Uh-oh the worblox got squanched! Try again later!"
I saw someone once say that just scanning a QR code was enough to get your account stolen, but forgot to mention the QR code sends you to the Discord login page with a red warning saying "DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU WERE SENT THIS PAGE" and you have to click "log me into their computer" manually.
January 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I saw someone once say that just scanning a QR code was enough to get your account stolen, but forgot to mention the QR code sends you to the Discord login page with a red warning saying "DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU WERE SENT THIS PAGE" and you have to click "log me into their computer" manually.
It's a combination of every corner of tech being turned into a padded room and people slowly caring less about understanding how things work (likely because they're both becoming less understandable and because they don't benefit being understood).
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
It's a combination of every corner of tech being turned into a padded room and people slowly caring less about understanding how things work (likely because they're both becoming less understandable and because they don't benefit being understood).
Mastodon is such a good social media. When I first moved there from Twitter my interaction rate spiked 10x despite starting from zero following.
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Mastodon is such a good social media. When I first moved there from Twitter my interaction rate spiked 10x despite starting from zero following.
Some artists I follow (namely from Asia) are only on Twitter.
Ideally everyone would be on 4-6 different platforms, but that's too much effort for most people, I guess.
Ideally everyone would be on 4-6 different platforms, but that's too much effort for most people, I guess.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Some artists I follow (namely from Asia) are only on Twitter.
Ideally everyone would be on 4-6 different platforms, but that's too much effort for most people, I guess.
Ideally everyone would be on 4-6 different platforms, but that's too much effort for most people, I guess.
For context: I was asking them about API access for a tool I was making which would allow creators to host their own content (and it would check with SS/Pat/etc for viewer access).
They asked how I was planning on content moderation, hence the above.
They asked how I was planning on content moderation, hence the above.
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For context: I was asking them about API access for a tool I was making which would allow creators to host their own content (and it would check with SS/Pat/etc for viewer access).
They asked how I was planning on content moderation, hence the above.
They asked how I was planning on content moderation, hence the above.
All I can say as someone who tried asking them about that: they ghosted me after I clarified that no content moderation can take place if users host content on their own website.
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
All I can say as someone who tried asking them about that: they ghosted me after I clarified that no content moderation can take place if users host content on their own website.