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Never before have I felt such seething hate combined with such helpless surrender as with people on Instagram in Amsterdam anno 2026 (at least, in my own culture/club/band/arts scene). Everyone despises it, but nobody is leaving because everyone else is there. A timebomb of malcontence.

Benjamin

@benjamin.network

Don’t get me wrong: lots of things happening in the background, lots of people laying groundwork for alternatives. But many, even the critically minded who desire change, seem absolutely paralyzed, unable to look past their current predicament. Ripe for the plucking by the right atproto app view?

19/5/26, 2:04 pm0 reposts0 likes

Benjamin

@benjamin.network

19 May

Perhaps @flashes.blue or @sprk.so could do, but imo there needs to be a big push towards a single app view – the way #atprotocol works is too complex for most to parse initially, they just wanna be pointed towards the new app & know their friends/institutions/etc will be there – rest comes later.