Most feeds feel soulless. The author left for personal reasons, but I wonder if this is where online communities are heading structurally. When everyone is broadcasting and no one is listening, the medium loses its point.

I'll probably be subscribing to Yakult myself in a few decades. SafetyNets-as-a-Service.

As a developer, the AI I use most daily isn't a chat app. Same for most devs I know. I don't have aggregate data, but the "AI app = chat app" premise feels increasingly off. The post classifies WhatsApp as a core utility — but WhatsApp has 40x Slack's users while Slack's ARPU is orders of magnitude higher. Some estimates put their total revenue in a similar range, though neither company discloses standalone figures. Leading in WAU and being the highest-value utility aren't the same thing.