That was a temporary experiment to see if more people enabled Grant to produce more videos, but the Mythical Man-Month rang true again. It's just Grant now, like it was when it started.
He's still experimenting with different approaches, trying to find the optimal flow like any startup would. His approach as of late has been to collaborate more with other channels, like he did on the Feynman video and the interative quaternion page you referenced above.
This is most likely the case. Discord's introduction was mainly to pull in the gaming audience using Skype while providing the quality behind Mumble and Ventrillo
Let's be honest, who is actually willing to take the time and effort to read the exact same news from every possible news source to determine the legatimacy of all of the articles' claims, "facts", and opinions. What these kids are likely doing is spreading themselves out, covering all of the sources, and coming back together to discuss them; better than reading one news source, but also worse than reading all of them. At least that's the perspective that I get from the author's writting.
Judging by the handles of these accounts it wouldn't surprise me with kids only followed accounts that aligned with their current beliefs which may end up leading to the echo chamber you previously mentioned (however I must disagree that it's not the direct copy and pasting that makes it an echo chamber, its the copy and pasting of ideas). But also because of the online and pseudonymous nature of the internet it also wouldn't surprise me if people also joined communities that didn't align with their beliefs just to experiment with them. Perhaps even engage in more civilized debates on Instagram than in /r/the_donald.
But also as an occasional user of Instagram I find it weird for them to even be having long winded debates on the app. It was designed to be a photosharing app with comments, not a place for discussion threads. But maybe I'm too old now ️
I've had this handle since around 1998, but other people started grabbing it in other forums after that. I'm not the twitter ninkendo nor the steam ninkendo either.
I only have this handle without trailing numbers on here, Ars Technica's forums, and gmail. (Formerly reddit too, but I deleted my account there when the site became a bit too toxic.)
if you lose the game all your files get erased cf. Kojima's original plan for "Metal Gear Solid", where if you died the game would stop working permanently
