Nobody is saying its necessary for survival. Yes, we can go back to the 1800s and still survive. That doesn’t mean computers are bad. Whether or not it’s “worth it” remains to be seen, since these things were only just released

But what if your hands are occupied, carrying shopping bags or eating a sandwich on the go? These things have legitimate use

Well I’m not trying to start a community around helping people, I’m just a participator. If I wanted to maximize the number of people I could help, I might move back to reddit

edit: a word

You can ask the sunglasses for other options too

Those saying “just self-host Matrix/Stoat/XMPP”, do not understand the power of network effects. If people are too lazy to sign up on your custom server, and you end up with 50% of the users you would have gotten if you used Discord, is that worth it? What if it was only 10%?

I wish there were a solution to this. Interoperability sounds nice until you have multiple competing standards (like Matrix and XMPP)

Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?

What are your other options? Blindly trust google? Blindly trust random locals? Blindly trust every hotel receptionist trying to convince you to stay at their hotel?

At some point you have to trust something.