[2021] Tweets by Orteil42 on 27 Dec

i don't want all these social media abstractions anymore. i want full skeuomorphism. i want web profiles to feel and look like little custom-furnished houses i can visit. i wanna visit my friends online

and i mean this in a ultima online animal crossing way not in a facebook metaverse way

give discord servers more physicality... it needs to have *rooms* not just "rooms" y'feel

you check your messages; there’s a new gift notification. it’s a little pixel teapot a friend of yours made. you proudly display it in your intro lobby next to your sh*tpost corner

you can right-click on anything you like and have it in your inventory to do whatever you want with. there is no marketplace, no exclusive ownership, no celeb-sponsored item events. it's been 3 years since you've last heard the word "fungible"