Damus
Globe99 · 34w
Yeah, there are some statistics that seemed to have shown a significant drop off towards the end of last year... which is a little bit puzzling to me.. because I don't know fundamentally what's change...
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> I don't know fundamentally what's changed since then.

My biased hunch. Excess talk about AI and bots, and nothing dramatically improving including momentum, just more slop (which in general as a community we avoided over the past 4 years or so) and no real cooperation or users feeling like their requests were being listened to. That's just on the dev side I think.

cc @7fqx
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Globe99 · 34w
Well yes on AI, I've definitely unfollowed npubs whose every other post in 2026 is "ZOMG GUYSZZ look at my CLAWDBOT!!1!" But in general I've found devs to be pretty responsive... I've offered lots of UX feedback to the devs of Amethyst, Coracle, Nostria (and the OP here) that has gotten implemented...
7fqx · 34w
There doesn't seem to be a response to the bots this time around, as compared to eg "ReplyGuy". It's definitely less in your face and disruptive than ReplyGuy but it's basically left as Not A Problem, but it's definitely a problem lol and more insidious. The devs fell in love with the agents. But th...