so i've been thinking about the recently-launched shinies in the back of my head.
it's a cool idea, and i jumped on it simply because it reminds me of the chanfun bot that hung around a certain irc channel, but i'm going to admit that i'm slightly concerned and mostly from the fact that the developer is a mystery, having no public-facing social nor a public git or anything, and what does exist is just are just brand accounts for the shinies platform.
granted, if your standards of concern are average, shinies is perfectly fine, the sign-up proc is literally a username and a password (not even an email, which is slightly concerning, mostly since there's no alternative way to reset your password), and there's very little real-world financial risk - it's more like the internetometer or chanfun than like an actual cryptocurrency.
i think i have a problem overthinking harmless things but just not being able to know the people behind a thing makes it hard to trust that thing
it's a cool idea, and i jumped on it simply because it reminds me of the chanfun bot that hung around a certain irc channel, but i'm going to admit that i'm slightly concerned and mostly from the fact that the developer is a mystery, having no public-facing social nor a public git or anything, and what does exist is just are just brand accounts for the shinies platform.
granted, if your standards of concern are average, shinies is perfectly fine, the sign-up proc is literally a username and a password (not even an email, which is slightly concerning, mostly since there's no alternative way to reset your password), and there's very little real-world financial risk - it's more like the internetometer or chanfun than like an actual cryptocurrency.
i think i have a problem overthinking harmless things but just not being able to know the people behind a thing makes it hard to trust that thing
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I know no context whatsoever, so all I'll say is make of this what you want