External Payments From the HEY App

💩posting from random commenters incoming! Who wants to do research before signing up for services rather than fill a deplorable, greedy corporation’s pockets. Get ready for “only Apple cares for user safety and privacy” BS, etc.

You nailed it: who wants to do research before signing up?!? How on earth is this a good use of my time? The strawperson of whether or not Apple "cares" is irrelevant and silly, all of my subs are three taps away, and cancelation is two more from that. I will _always_ be refunded. I have to talk with nobody, email nobody. I have as close to zero worry about information leakage as I can have.

All this clambering for "choice" is for and about devs, not consumers. We (consumers) have it good, and this won't make it better.

@random Apple will always cancel your subscription. They are not reliable at refunding, even when there’s a good reason.

DHH is a pretty horrible person.

Seeing someone horrible be happy about something makes me question the thing they’re so happy about.

@Someone else: Let's be honest, you were going to be against it regardless.

@Someone else
Horrible how?

He's not horrible so much as gullible.

He believes what Jordan Peterson and Musk say. He applauded JD Vance crap about there being no freedom of expression in Europe, and he's full on MAGA, which is ironic considering he had to move to Denmark to escape climate change induced wildfires.

But he says a lot of good things to, and he makes a lot of good things as well.

Personally I think his worst offence is misunderstanding taoism completely.

But he's absolutely right about external payments.

@Kristoffer ah I see so he's like nearly everyone else in tech. Smart but believes the crazy things their chosen political party says.

I consider myself a true centrist, so most people seem far-right or far-left to me already. And the few centrists in tech just don't talk about anything because saying anything about either side is just asking for trouble from the extremists in both camps.

And also his political leanings have nothing to do with this subject. Anyone willing to blindly dismiss someone’s views based on their political leanings is just as an idiot as the ones blindly follow their political side/party.

Especially since his MAGA leanings more closely align with apples insistence on putting tariffs on other peoples work.

@Kristoffer And capriciously disallow others talking about it. 🤣

Apparently, he really needed to defend Andrew Tate repeatedly. Strange look. Can DHH and Apple both lose somehow? DHH thinks JD Vance is super smart talking about the lack of free speech in Germany, while his administration is trying to deport protesters and defend anything that disagrees with their point of view? This tracks.