iisu is a bad idea. Not talking about the developers or the programming quality or the aesthetics or anything, just the main concept. Bolting a social media onto an emulator frontend and a STORE (!!) is just ASKING for trouble, social and legal

I can applaud the GENERAL idea of "emulator frontends should invest in better UX", because, yeah, sure, no complaints from me, but the reason that emulator frontends are often kind of janky is because emulation is somewhat janky by definition.

It's very fiddly even in the best of situations and it's at best only barely legal, which is fine but means any money involved becomes very hard to handle

If we could have a snappier emulator frontend software that Just Worked that would be neat, but there are practical reasons why that has been historically challenging. Perhaps not impossible to solve but difficult.

But even if iisu had all the technology COMPLETELY PERFECT it would still be a bad fucking idea because adding a social media function to an emulator frontend is a BAD!! IDEA!! DO YOU HAVE THE TIME AND MONEY TO MODERATE THAT?? DOUBT IT!

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@dante that plus i keep hearing that they plainly have No Desire Whatsoever to moderate their discord, so it is of course swarming with raging transphobes (including the project's OWN LEADER)

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