For me it’s my ability to identify bicycles
It's the Fediverse, baby!
Me: Trying to fall asleep Brain: Remember that dumb thing you did 20 years ago? Yeah that was pretty embarrassing and dumb
You can't fault someone for trying the app and if it works for their use-case, that doesn't make them dumb. Yes it's shitty for most of us, but for someone just casually browsing on the toilet and not commenting, maybe it works fine for them.
So much quicker then taking a car too, and rarely any traffic. At worst you have delays.
I just see their response as being close to the stereotypical, skeptical IT guy response to problems. Including having an inflated view of ones self... that "shutting down the sub on a Monday will have an adverse impact on our readers, including possible production issues. really got me.
My favorite place at the food court was Synobun