I am an iOS user and I really need this. I love the Youtube App, but I can't stand having it auto open to shorts... They are truly mining my brain through this action.
oh yeah, my background: i'm a former bookseller who taught myself to code html and css to redesign the website. i found i liked the creativity and problem solving of coding and became a software developer. my second dev job was the most transformative: i worked for datamade, a civic tech company based in chicago. they mentored me and helped me grow as a developer, eventually becoming a lead developer. i worked on a variety of cool projects for them...a lot of data engineering and projects that make a difference. they are an excellent company and i was fortunate to work there, but i quit that job last year because i was burned out from a variety of things, including building bookhead in my free time. when i quit, i wasn't sure if i wanted to pursue bookhead seriously, so i revised a novel i had written while i decided whether or not to go for it with bookhead. i was lukewarm on pursuing yet another bookselling e-commerce as a business idea. i've seen firsthand how hard it is being an entrepreneur, but i've been excited about this once i landed on the current product vision last winter.
i'm currently working freelance within the civic tech space, doing devops and data engineering for organizations who are working toward criminal justice reform.
musk is unstable. and so are the products he has under him. these are not good things to rely on. i got off twitter and now the site's drama doesn't affect me. at the same time, i miss the great content from threads. :(
Uh... maybe because he doesn't want to use technology that gives power to someone like Elon Musk, who is well known for propagating right-wing propaganda.
