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> So just saying "this is content marketing" I think is a shibboleth for the entire conversation that starts with "pretty shallow and non-descript".

I'd disagree with this pretty strongly since there are many examples of content marketing that are also very useful pieces of content.

Well then it's not "short-hand".

Like many NFT/crypto posts, I have absolutely no idea whether this is serious or a parody.

Saying the article is "pretty shallow and non-descript: is much shorter and more useful than what they posted.

Google TV has the best content discovery I've come across so far. Recommendations across most streaming services based on overall similar movies, different slices of the genre, and movies with similar directors/cast members. Plus as soon as you select another movie, you can see all the same "similar" recommendations for that movie.

I'll never understand why people think this is a valid criticism of an article, rather than pointing out an issue they have with the actual content of the article. There's nothing inherently wrong with a company sharing info about the space they operate in. In fact, it should be encouraged as long as what they share is useful.

Get outside should talk to some people in the real world.

Why are you defending a company who has raised over $1 billion in funding and is executing so poorly? Or is it bias?

You're missing the part where Twitter is not part of the federal government. And for the federal government to step in and order what a private company must publish is an actual banana republic move.

Your use of "orange" is a clear sign that you're extremely biased and it's worthless to continue this back and forth.

If a vendor creating IP/code for your company violates a license, your company violates the license. It can even be as simple as a contractor using an image that they don't have a license for. If they upload the image on your website/use it anywhere public, you are liable. Recently had a client that had to pay out $30k because one of their contractors did exactly that.

This is very basic stuff and makes me wonder if you've ever worked in a vendor/client relationship before.

It's bizarre and hilarious to me how much you're defending a company that has raised $1 billion dollars promising to create one of the greatest social networks on earth - yet the core of their product is a re-skinned open source project (that originally violated the license) and their execution has been incredibly sloppy (wait lists that people have been on for months, 404 error pages when people link publicly to their profiles).

If this company did not have their current political affiliations, I seriously doubt you'd be defending them for a second. Because all the evidence of how well they are performing points to them being laughably inept.

Supabase offers a lot more than edge functions (db, auth, etc). Take a look at their website

Didn't realize that and that is hilarious. But I wouldn't expect anything else from parler

Especially when their so called "Technical Team" purports to have experience from 2 dozen different established tech companies.

That's them acknowledging that they haven't built anything novel or interesting, the just copy/pasted another project and expect people to take them seriously as a major social network.

Given that they want to be taken seriously as a major social media network and public company, you'd think they'd actually do some development of their own rather than just copying another project.

They put out press releases and pitch decks boasting on how they were going to develop the best social network that the world had ever seen. They have investment slides citing their technical team, who supposedly came up with laughably vague "Infrastructure" slides:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312521...

And all this bluster just to outsource the re-skinning of an existing open source project. Vlad N listed as their CIO on slide 21 is Vladimir Novachki, CTO of Cosmic Development, a North Macedonian outsourcing firm. It would take about a week to recreate what they've done, costing about $5k max.

It's like saying you're going to make the #1 website builder then paying someone $5k to just re-skin WordPress. Given the promotional materials they've put out, it's beyond pathetic.

That's completely besides the point of what I was getting at. They put out press releases and pitch decks boasting on how they were going to develop the best social network that the world had ever seen.

Look at the laughable "Infrastructure" slides on their investment deck:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312521...

And all this bluster just to pay someone in Eastern Europe to re-skin an existing open source project. It should take about a week to recreate what they've done. It's like saying you're going to make the #1 Slack competitor then just re-skinning Mattermost. It's pathetic.

I love open source and all the ways it benefits the world. But I hate exaggerated bravado when the actual service is the very definition of average.

More like them only wanting to spend 5 days worth of a single outsourced coder's time. I can't imagine changing some CSS and find/replace "Mastodon" in the source code took much longer than that.

Just look at the "Infrastructure" slide (22) in their deck I posted above. It's like a middle schooler did a book report on web development.

Of course not. They probably just wanted to pay a laughably small amount to make a clone of Twitter. And whether the client asked for it to be done or not, the outsourced development group they hired copied the source code while removing the required attribution.

They hired a North Macedonian development group to create a a cheap copy of the Mastodon code and tried to remove all logos & mentions of Mastodon in the source code.

It'd be like announcing that you're creating what will be the world's most popular website builder and blogging platform, then spending 10k to just rip off WordPress and thinking job done. It's hilariously inept.

Clone, as in a re-skinned version. But my main point is the irony of releasing a pitch deck like this [1], and just adding some custom CSS to popular open source product.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312521...

Funnily enough, the whole "Truth Social" is just a Mastodon clone

DigitalOcean also offers managed Redis

We've been using https://upstash.com/ which charges per request, but has a nice SDK that allows easy Redis connections in Cloudflare Worker & AWS Lambda environments. It's been a very nice experience so far.

Are there are any good open source libraries that use REST connections to Redis so you can use it in "serverless" environments?

Mine is pretty accurate as well ($44.8M), based on recent mentions in Architectural Digest and a couple of solicitations from fellow G650 owners.

Also have quite a few great easter eggs on their site. Always nice when a company has a bit of personality.

porkbun.com is great

Would be cool to use this same approach to calculate viewscores for properties, much like walkscore does.