61–70 of 80 posts
So what is chronological order anyway? What time stamp do we order by? Is it when it was posted? The last comment? The last like/reaction? The last interaction by someone in our network?
I'm really tired of reading rants and opinions on Medium. In any case it sounds like if there's a huge drop-off of users Instagram can very easily address the issue by setting a sort by option in the settings.
tired of it too . just another platform for tumrblr people who are grownup to channel their narcissism. And most of the articles are of low quality, with unnecessarily large font and stupid pictures that makes me feel like I'm in 5th grade again.
And here I thought Instagram was an actual case of the acquirer letting the acquired product be fairly hands off. Are there any examples of happy acquisitions? Oculus?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well its apt that Mark Zuckerberg gets the blame then. There really should be a weekly game. Top score to the person with the most items added to the list - If Mark Zuckerberg was running Wikipedia: 1. Everybody in the world would need an account to access it. 2. The most liked parts of a topic, lets say Linear Algebra, would appear before everything else on the topic. 3. A "free basics" version of Wikipedia would be…
Not sure why focusing on Mark Z. It sounds to me like rather "if Wikipedia was a business"...
The closing line: >> It is stealing me as much time as they can. They are fighting to get my attention span, only to feed me with more ads. They are just like the television. That's an interesting point. Seems like that can be applied to a long list of sites/apps now (or maybe it's always been like that, not sure now is any different).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, but not everyone eats fast food, so there must be a way to resist them.
Willpower. Your willpower is low when you are tired or in an advanced state of mind. Take a look at decision fatigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue "Decision fatigue can influence irrational impulse purchases at supermarkets. During a trip to the supermarket, trade-off decisions regarding prices and promotions can produce decision fatigue, hence by the time the shopper reaches the cash register, less…
You can easily transcend all of that.
Not the fact that you're being controlled by an elite consisting of rich, well brought up white people and a media which serves them and each other.
But the day to day annoyances of adverts and supermarket deals etc. If you read books, listen to music ripped from CDs, watch movies/tvs from netflix/downloads etc, then you're going to suffer only very slight interference from ads. Certainly I see no justification for the suggestion it's "tiring" to "discard" an ad.
If you have to shop in supermakets (and you do not) then it's possible to just buy sensible stuff; fruit, veg, milk, juice, break, rice etc. You don't need to wander down the colourful aisles and pay over the odds for this seasons exciting "as seen on tv" junk foods. It's hard to imagine any self-respecting HN reading struggling to understand which size/brand of some product is the cheapest. It's not remotely taxing to do this, and mental activity keeps your mind fit and staves off dementia. It has no consequence on willpower whatsoever. In any event, a lot of shops in the UK have no "candy" by the "cash register" because it annoys parents who have to get their kids to stop screaming for it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Willpower. Your willpower is low when you are tired or in an advanced state of mind. Take a look at decision fatigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue "Decision fatigue can influence irrational impulse purchases at supermarkets. During a trip to the supermarket, trade-off decisions regarding prices and promotions can produce decision fatigue, hence by the time the shopper reaches the cash register, less…
When I read that sort of thing i'd like I'm reliving the 1980s, where everyone had that sort of "they live" (the movie) paranoia that they were being controlled. You can easily transcend all of that. Not the fact that you're being controlled by an elite consisting of rich, well brought up white people and a media which serves them and each other. But the day to day annoyances of adverts and supermarket deals etc. If…
Exactly, but most people are not HN readers.
I've added countless ads to websites, added countless trackers, implemented countless marketing emails. Of course I am aware of what's happening behind the scene.
Most people are going to be watching TV and be bombarded by ads. They are then going to go to the supermarket, and be bombarded by packaging. They are going to listen to radio on the way to work and be bombarded by audio ads, with some nice billboards on top.
Every day, we are trying harder and harder to customize our ads to be more effective toward users. It's not paranoia. We have "loyalty" cards that track all of our users purchases which we analyse and use to send targeted ads. We are working our best to beat the mind's "firewall" to inject our "malwares" into the mind of the consumers.
The closing line: >> It is stealing me as much time as they can. They are fighting to get my attention span, only to feed me with more ads. They are just like the television. That's an interesting point. Seems like that can be applied to a long list of sites/apps now (or maybe it's always been like that, not sure now is any different).
It's not really all that interesting, is it? It's what every business does; to try and make money from you. They make films you want to watch, books you want to read, music you want to listen to, and websites you want to read. Even blogs.
So the point of the post is "Now the timeline order has changed. It's not a timeline anymore, but it's a filtered and reordered feed. I feel very sad about that and I want to explain you why." The why in that is "Now Instagram aims to be the brother of Facebook: a time sucking machine that has to steal the highest amount of my time to maximise the exposure of his ads. Now it’s too hard for me follow what’s happening…
What did you expect is going to happen? Why would you invest so much effort and emotion into growing a thing that you can be 100% sure will eventually try to consume you.
If people want social media that does not feed on them, they have to start using p2p, decentralized social apps. Not like Diaspora (federated), but truly p2p, where each user contributes resources and there's no need to support scalability engineers maintaining state of art datacenters.
http://twister.net.co/ https://zeronet.io/ https://www.ipfs.com/ http://www.synereo.com/ http://maidsafe.net/
Somewhere there or in something similiar is our holy grail: social networking by users for users.