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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Well that makes *ME* feel better...
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I do listen at 3x speed on average (sometimes more, sometimes less). So, yeah, about an hour and a half a day is about right.
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I'm guessing... not? A lot of the ones I listen to are pretty well known and popular, and the ones that are not are pretty niche and specific to my interests.
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It helped that one of the Lonely Island guys' brother was an early YT employee...
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I knew of its existence but don't think I'd watched anything on it before that video came out.
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I have addressed all of those points in this thread at least a dozen times. Yes, a ton of people wanted it. Literally the notification before yours is someone saying it's exactly what they wanted. Editing posts is crazy difficult to implement correctly, and no one wants to rush out a bad version.
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM