What do JOMO and FOMO stand for? I think of FOMO as "Fear of Missing Out", the controversial motivator driving retention for free-to-play games like Fortnite, but that doesn't seem to be correct in this context.
IANAAE (I Am Not An Aerospace Engineer), but I think the key difference here is the compression that happens with turbines as opposed to propellers which only move the air.
I think the primary advantages of something like this is more so that it enables you to use it with terminal tools, and from/in other programs (e.g. calling it from vim). There's also the benefit of increased productivity if you want to stay in terminal. It wasn't designed to to be more ergonomic than the browser based one.
It's interesting what happens when there's such a massive user base when Pateron's entire user base (~5M pledges) is less than a fraction of a percentage of FB's users. Albeit the rate of conversion is taken out of account, but we're still talking about differences in orders of magnitude.
The entire field of marketing is hinged on applied psychology. The way that this article frames basic marketing techniques in a negative light simply because Facebook used them is the pinnacle of sensationalism.
That wasn't my takeaway from reading all the Twitter posts. The author mentions he will never work at a non-self-organizing company again. It was just the bonus driven toxic culture at Valve which encouraged unhealthy competition and sabotage between the developers.