Same boat. Was so inspired and on board, even recently. I see what others say about him but it didn’t effect me, even as practically every colleague I know complained. I am no longer a supporter in my heart.
My rationale is personal, suddenly. Those things stack up but I saw something specific that made me lose trust in what matters to me, thought I dont think it matters to most people. I want him to succeed so Im not a hater, I want him to push ahead for humanity if he will, with SpaceX, Tesla, the mind pong monkey, the bots.. I still haven't come to terms with reconciling that I wouldnt of thought it could be true, but I saw it myself in real time....manipulating information on twitter. I submitted a thread here about it with screenshots.
Any suggestion for a more elegant solution? For example, with copyrights, it’s in many ways granted automatically just by existence. Other terms and privacy rights don’t require popups.
I don't have anything specific. I think most websites have a slow-and-painful cookie/GDPR dialogue because they must have it so there is no real reason to make it good, they can just blame the law for why it sucks. But, for example, many many websites I visit load up, and then a few seconds later (massive JS download? Some cute animation? I don't know) a dialogue pops up asking for my consent. They could optimize to make this experience better, there is nothing about the web tech stack that requires this sort of thing to be unpleasant.
Could chaos theory help explain how and why memes flow? I propose memes are physical and follow patterns that could be more accurately measured and predicted.
I think you are right that it does take a lot of effort for to do it right, one needs to design a whole new compatible experience. On the other hand, this interface and dataset here is fairly raw already, so a lot of the form would follow naturally.
