Crypto bros are infamous for describing any criticism as FUD, no matter the criticism. It's like a verbal tic. Here are some examples from the past couple days on the premiere Bitcoin social network:
When all this FUD ends and Bitcoin goes 🚀
Quantum FUD is at ATH
FUD Busters [NFT]
Flokicoin is built to last... Don't follow the FUD.
The hugeness is probably
391, 562 messages across 4,761 different conversations
That's a lot of messages
I like the idea of a smartphone that uses off-the-rack components for everything except for the screen, which should be e-ink. You don't have to worry about apps not working, but it incentivizes you to put the thing down.
Would you be okay with synchronizing only when you're on your own Wi-Fi network? If that's the case, you don't have to try exposing anything to the Internet.
You can also purchase a server online to install it on, but you're going to get saddled with some kind of monthly fee there.
This is where your donations to the Mozilla Foundation end up.
Google funds the development of Firefox, but people who click the Donate button fund this.
The group is unencrypted because it's not possible to encrypt group chats in Telegram, because Telegram is that bad.
Then say they won the same prize that was awarded to the inventor of the lobotomy, don't link to a puff piece with an indefensibly bad title
They did the best they should have to do.
Their statement in this article has a half dozen different reasons for dropping the project. A suspicious number of reasons, and all of them sound more like excuses. You're definitely right about the Ministry of Truth though, because this embarrassment has been in development since 2024.
It's like he's describing a slot machine with unpainted wheels, leaving out the context that it's in a casino with a big "paint me and enjoy a share of the profit" sign above it.
The social media machine was designed to be a self-serve addiction generator. It intentionally used every trick it could legally get away with.
"Sam Altman claims AGI is coming in 2025 and machines will be able to 'think like humans' when it happens"