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Those seem to be credit-based platforms, not sure if I'm into that right now. Seart.ai offers me the chance to ask a hentai character if she needs help taking a bath. Good to know!

How about instead of reddit being the example, we use craigslist? A mostly innocuous non-profit with wide usage, founded by a person who could have easily "gone reddit." It isn't so hard to imagine the same ethos and technology being applied to fundamental "social protocols" like reddit, facebook and others. My objection is that there seems to be an assumption (in American culture at least) that the way things are are the only way they could have turned out or the end result of making the best thing.

A widely cited example: Microsoft did not make the best operating system. There's many reasons why they too over the world.

A lot depends on what one considers the best, too. Your points about the examples I gave are valid, we just had very different experiences of those platforms.

You have your own definitions of joke, best, and sad. That's fine.

As a white man I find walking on eggshells to have an extreme rejuvenating effect on my skin, making my feet feel soft, refreshed, and ready to take whatever the night has to offer.

My first feedback is DEAR GOD. I didn't ask for any of the traits of this output. Secondly, the photo presets seem to be generating illustrations.

You've put a lot of work into this and it's cool to be able to customize all the prompts, but man is it hard to get everything in these kinds of generators to work right.

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Nope. It doesn't know how to do that out of the box.

Anytime large numbers of people flock to some platform is because they made it easy and attractive to use.

Is this really the case? There are many reasons why people flock to things, but those things being the "best" or "easiest" are not necessarily chief among them. People left friendster because it couldn't handle the traffic and it was annoying. People left myspace for various reasons, some political (it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch, who owns Sky/FOX), and many simply because college kids were using this newer thing called Facebook.

Why were they using it? It wasn't because it was the easiest, or best, it was because their parents weren't using it and they could be themselves without being snooped (a similar force has driven Twitter and Tiktok success). Youth culture tends to attract more users, another reason that doesn't involve making something the easiest or best; add this good fortune and Zuck's shameless profiteering by selling user data in order to cover the growing pains of their servers, and Facebook became a thing.

Like, couldn’t I just ask, why didn’t you create this Usenet based reddit killer yourself?

The short answer is that I'm not a developer. Another short answer is that even if I were a developer, convincing habitual users to do other things is a different planet of annoying. I hope that not developing reddit-killing software does not prohibit me from having criticisms of reddit and other corporate social plats?

The only solid vector graphics app I've used in open source is Inkscape. I agree, it's very difficult to get to know, even moreso if you're coming from old school raster imaging and don't get all the mathiness. I had to learn Inkscape though, because I needed to make fantasy maps with textual titles that didn't look like crap when rescaled.

I'm no expert, but it does pay off to learn. It's a very powerful set of tools.

I have tried lots of text editors, tons. None of them quite do what I want. I installed CudaText. It's now my favorite. I love it so much. The settings... Oh, the delicious settings...

I know it's a big jump from Adobe Cloud (which probably used user behavior tracking and their work to train AI) but it is possible to make great stuff with open source apps now.

The newly released GIMP 3.0 is quite amazing considering that it is free. Is it as good as Photoshop? Maybe it lacks all the features, but it's pretty damn good. If you install GMIC, an amazing suite of tools, it gets that much closer. Inkscape is also professional level for vector work now. Honorable mentions to Krita and kdenlive (for video editing). edit: I shouldn't leave out blender, jeesus.

I left Adobe Cloud 9 years ago. Yeah I had to endure a lot of ridicule and weird looks when I told people that I only worked in GIMP, but more recently, the response is less "You're weird" and more "I need Cloud for my job/it's all I know," which is a positive change.

If nobody ever makes the leap, things will stay the same indefinitely. Don't expect market forces to change things.

Wow, @danno, all this really should be in the Tips and general guidance of perchance itself.

Can you do the fandango? I don't know about the custom generators out there. I'm scared to get too attached to any of them in case they stop working or being maintained. I like the dev's https://perchance.org/ai-character-chat It has the most features and it probably won't vanish. Unfortunately, the text-ai model used by perchance is not the greatest compared to what's out there now.

The dev says they're going to give it an upgrade but this is a huge project.