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Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by partiallypro »

40acres wrote: post #154

Snap's recent performance and articles like this just solidify my view that Spigel is a bad CEO and that the Snap board has very little they can do to turn the company around. Evan seems like a great product guy but when it comes to executing as CEO he needs a lot of help. The fact that the board has not gotten a COO on board to help guide him is an indictment on them. Corporate governance in the valley continues to…

I'm not sure he's a great product guy...what product do they have? Filters? Auto-deleting messages? Spectacles? What a boondoggle that has been. The mere fact that he says the company is a photography company should be enough to make any investor flee.

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Post by njarboe »

CydeWeys wrote: post #152
rohit2412 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bring listened to by the government is very different from being psychologically manipulated by political parties.

Honestly, I'd rather be snooped on by a corporation for advertising purposes than snooped on by the government for worse purposes.

In the US at least, being snooped on by a corporation is a subset of being snooped on by the government. All corp snooping is available to the government. In practice, the government often uses corporate snooping to get around laws that would prevent them from legally doing some types of snooping directly.

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Post by eahman08 »

captainbland wrote: post #26

Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.

You can only contact friends from other instances if your instance hasn't blocked the other instance.

Also most instances are everything but free speech friendly. I don't understand where the improvement over Twitter is. It's a Twitter clone with fewer users, a more complicated UX, and where you can get banned faster.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by drb91 »

Maro wrote: post #80
barrkel wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, capitalist food producers don't need to be evil. All they need do is keep tuning their food, and a blind process of optimization will lead to addictive foods that people eat until they're obese, because that's what maximizes profits for the food industry. It's not much different for Facebook. A blind process of engagement and relevance optimization leads to a more addictive product that steals more and more…

People are in charge of their own diet. People are in charge of their own time, how they spend it, on the Internet or offline. Blaming big corporations and capitalism is a sorry excuse for making bad decisions.

Right, which is why as a society we’re fine with drug dealers—it’s the users who are obviously intentionally ruining their own lives. Out of choice.

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Post by dang »

Benjammer wrote: post #106
Analemma_ wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I've read about Evan Spiegel indicates that he's really cargo-culting trying to be Steve Jobs, with no real understanding of why Jobs was successful.

>“Why would I go around the company and just chat with people? Like that would be so awkward” He sounds like a 17 year old, not necessarily that he has no idea what he's doing, imo. Just seems super immature a lot of the time.

Please don't post cheap personal comments to HN. This breaks more than one of the site guidelines, such as the one against shallow dismissals.

Re: Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

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Post by tomtomistaken »

bduerst wrote: post #86
samstave wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The correct phrase, IMO, would be "cumulative shadiness" for FB... Individually, and within groups, the work of the employees and teams at FB is nothing short of amazing (and apple, google, etc)... cumulatively though? The nature of these companies are not in the best interests of individual users, and when looked at the power and impact the company as a whole has over any individual in specific, is pretty obviously…

Interesting. Almost like a tragedy of the commons - each individual is so "laser focused" on their own impact that it eventually leads to them plundering the cumulative value for users.

Just like in real life (:

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Post by jimbokun »

CydeWeys wrote: post #152
rohit2412 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bring listened to by the government is very different from being psychologically manipulated by political parties.

Honestly, I'd rather be snooped on by a corporation for advertising purposes than snooped on by the government for worse purposes.

With Facebook, you get the worst of both of those.

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Post by dredmorbius »

chrisco255 wrote: post #99
dredmorbius wrote: post #78

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Fail Whale on line three. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...

Yeah but Mastadon has to compete with Twitter, which already works pretty well. To go mainstream, they'll need to do better.

Mastodon has no burn rate. It can improve incrementally and snipe valued users.

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Post by YourMatt »

pgm8705 wrote: post #12
late2part wrote: post #4

I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.

Opposite for me. I don't know many people over 18 who don't use Snapchat. Even parents of most my peers(late 20s - mid 30s) use it. It has largely replaced iMessage or SMS for exchanging dumb pictures of day-to-day things (e.g. Your dog doing something silly/cute)

I'm pushing 40. It's split in my circle. Less than half use it. Of the other half, it's mostly women. I personally tried it and rejected it after getting a feel for how it works.

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Post by dorkwood »

newswriter99 wrote: post #5

Takes three paragraphs to get to the answer: Instagram stories. Snapschat is busy trying to remain relevant as Instagram one-ups it again and again. Other than teenagers using it to sext, Snapchat is largely useless compared to Insta.

To me they’re entirely different products. I use Snapchat to send funny things I see to specific friends who will find them funny. I can’t do that on Instagram without broadcasting that same message to over 100 people.
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