One of the most interesting parts about this to me was what wasn't said among the sea of what was said, and maybe shouldn't be an epiphany, but kind of was. Th

One of the most interesting parts about this to me was what wasn't said among the sea of what was said, and maybe shouldn't be an epiphany, but kind of was. The what wasn't said part was that, at least in its early days, Etsy was a site heavily targeted towards women, and what was said about the sea of shirtless dudes and the dickfilter made me realize that in large enough groups and without any sensible moderation, both men and women will focus on their basest desires. Now I'm kind of curious what sort of content ends up on Pinterest that has to be moderated out, because for some reason I assumed it would be categorically different from the type of content that has to be moderated out on a site like Reddit, but now I'm thinking it's probably pretty similar. That said, I think there's something foundational about having moments like these in your career. Startups really are zany-land, or at least were, and the days of Flash and PHP were /full/ of weird things you'd have to deal with operationally thanks to completely absent conceptions of security. Some of the strangest things I've dealt with technically all were related to operating services built in PHP. I know it's not really en vogue to say, especially with how bad Javascript is as a language, but building services and sites for the web is MASSIVELY better now than it was in the past. The late 90s, early 2000s was fraught with ridiculous security issues caused nearly entirely by the entire ecosystem of languages, frameworks, and the people using them being ignorant that security is even a thing. NPM package security issues aside, the current situation in the web is so much of an improvement over the past it's hard to fathom.