All sides of this seem either completely inhumane, or a verdict on irredeemability of mankind itself.

Playing an instrument I had my own brushes with music distribution, and Tidal, for all their marketing theatrics, and compared with the product, it just feels insulting.

Others at least never claimed to save the art form. Or, in case I missed it, I have no love lost there either.

My main beef with Tidal is that establishment musicians founded it to do categorically nothing to further music distribution. They simply tried shifting a few percentages in order to enrich one generic greedy group over another, for which I have no sympathy.

Big issue indeed, why does BOLT12 seem to receive so little attention? Too difficult to implement?

Can you recommend any other way to get a LNURL for zaps on iOS other than WoS or running your own node?

I found nothing reasonably trustworthy looking in the overview graphic in the following article either.

https://coincharge.io/en/lnurl-for-lightning-wallets

Bolt12 seems critical, small merchants should never have to use custodial services just because they lack the means to run their own server, a non custodial mobile wallet should have to suffice.

I respect the point, and sometimes I feel the same way. Then again I find the different sounds and structures in languages can really shape the inner monologue in different ways, and I think it has merit to keep developing different approaches there.

I just have little regard for mixing languages, I either want to express myself in one or the other. Just my subjective opinion.

Exactly, no actual shortcuts in anything from my experience, just tools to make the process more fluent. Still, I see the shortcut idea constantly redressed and pushed aggressively, it feels absurd to me.

I have to take responsibility for that choice, but, as Peter mentions, we have since changed it to “Follower”.

I liked the suggestion “Folgen mir” and “Folge ich” someone made, could also live with “Abonnenten”, but as of now “Follower” won out.

Short: The team thoroughly discussed Anglicisms here, factoring in precedent from other apps. We welcome new suggestions.

The German language translation team has settled on retaining a small amount of the original English vocabulary as technical terms in cases where the German language arguably offered no suitable counterparts, eg. “Followers”.

This model has precedent in all major social apps, eg. the chirp network app.

We welcome new translation suggestions for such terms though, and happily put them to a vote among all German language contributors.

I always wondered, whether mass producing combustion engines, many petrol based plastics, building large nuclear reactors: Why play with something toxic at such lethal scale?

Paracelsus correctly observed in the 16th century: “The dose makes the poison”.

So radioactive materials, forever chemicals, petrol engines might have their small justifiable edge cases, but no civilized society should even have structures in place that enable large scale concentration and control of these inarguably deadly materials.

That website looks sleek, fantastic design

Include users that follow users you follow? Any follower or following based metric that can balance between social network nature and spam protection?

DM unlock with sat payment might also work, though I just find the expensive identity approach unintuitive, at least I suggest to exhaust attention economy based ideas, eg. follower relationships, first.

Also, would you consider making the post text on top of the reply pane scrollable? Composing replies can become difficult if you can only see a fraction of any longer post you intend to reply to.