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I think everyone needs to relax about wordle. This is cementing in my mind the human shameness of copying things (copy cat culture). Drop it. It’s a bad habit and I hate seeing it. It’s why we have 30 saas apps that do nothing. Stop it.

Sameness is an existentialist crisis, so please explore it in that realm instead of the abstraction of copying.

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2048 went through a phase also. Everyone and their dog[0] was making a clone. The fad will die out in a few months and everyone will move onto the next one.

[0]: https://doge2048.com/

I don't see why shared enjoyment of something is a "shameness". People are coming together to enjoy and share about something they have in common and that should be a good thing.

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