The article discusses the new highest-level Steam user, who has reportedly spent over half a million dollars to achieve this status. This user possesses a unique collection of items, including a Discord kitten and a $9,000 Counter-Strike gun that features a racial slur. The article also touches on the user’s potential rivalry with the individual currently in third place for the highest Steam level. It highlights the extravagant spending habits within the gaming community and raises questions about the implications of such investments in virtual goods.
The bird site was great in the early days when it was a bunch of micro blogs. It was basically freely hosted short form RSS feeds. I could keep track of so many things so easily from all my devices.
When the focus changed to more of a “town square” rather than just “hey I/we did this thing and you should know about it in 255 characters or less!” that’s when it became a mess.
Musk took a useful platform, failed to see it for what it is at its best, and elevated what made it its worst (gossip, rage baiting, berating, false information, and sensitizationalized content lacking nuance or substance). To be clear, that transition predates Musk and was driven more by users than Twitter the company, but Musk accelerated it (this is fundamentally visible in moves like monetizing the API which prevented Twitter ingesting and outputting various feeds for a large number of use cases).