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Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by hart_russell »

OzzyB wrote: post #9

Quoting from the excellent blog post[1] submitted here yesterday[0] that stole my morning workout time: " Instagram is some strange hybrid mix of social and interest graph, and now it’s also a jumble of formats, with a Stories feed relegated to a top bar in the app while the more stagnant and less active original feed continues to run vertically as the default. Messaging is pushed to a separate pane and also served b…

It's like Facebook didn't learn their own lesson from... Facebook.

The biggest reason I left Facebook was because the platform became a jumbled mess instead of its original clean interface. It's the reason why Facebook originally won out against Myspace and why Instagram won out against Facebook.

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Post by bredren »

munchbunny wrote: post #8
exdsq wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random spot check and they all seem to be shared by users with high karma, so I think the site is just more popular? And it’s not some sort of marketing push by them.

They’ve been around for a few years with really solid (in my opinion) daily email news digests, and the in depth reporting they’ve done seems solid too, so I generally trust what they publish.

Yep. They’ve been publishing seriously for a while now but it is hard to break through. I wondered if it was a conservative publication at the start. But they did the Swan / Trump interview and now I think the brand is on the map.

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adsjhdashkj wrote: post #11
munchbunny wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ve been around for a few years with really solid (in my opinion) daily email news digests, and the in depth reporting they’ve done seems solid too, so I generally trust what they publish.

How would you rate them to APNews or Economist?

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Post by bredren »

adsjhdashkj wrote: post #11
munchbunny wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ve been around for a few years with really solid (in my opinion) daily email news digests, and the in depth reporting they’ve done seems solid too, so I generally trust what they publish.

How would you rate them to APNews or Economist?

Too early to tell, though the brand feels more modern and digital.

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Post by samizdis »

sixhobbits wrote: post #10

I read this as "Instagram reels [from the blast]" and was super confused about why Instagram was being hurt by products launched from its parent company.

Ah, but the headline is written in sentence case, not title case - as can be seen in the words "launches", "its" and "rival", which are read before "Instagram Reels". Rookie error ;-)

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Post by rurp »

zo1 wrote: post #13
exdsq wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Random spot check and they all seem to be shared by users with high karma, so I think the site is just more popular? And it’s not some sort of marketing push by them.

It is a bit odd from my perspective because I have not seen/heard of "Axios" until this "Trump Interview" thing happened. So I understand the OP's bafflement at it's prominence all of a sudden. Even the fact that they got an interview with the US president seems out of place to me.

I've been reading the site regularly for a few years and seen them (often Swan) break a lot of Inside Baseball type stories on the White House, which I take to mean that they have some pretty high level sources.

They also do occasional stories that look like obvious beat-sweateners[0], likely to keep that access flowing.

Overall I'd say it's a pretty good source for non-partisan news.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beat%20sweet...

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Post by munchbunny »

adsjhdashkj wrote: post #11
munchbunny wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ve been around for a few years with really solid (in my opinion) daily email news digests, and the in depth reporting they’ve done seems solid too, so I generally trust what they publish.

How would you rate them to APNews or Economist?

Do you mean trustworthiness?

APNews is only good for the fact that something happened, not for any degree of interpretation, and you have to be on your guard for what isn't being said and what facts haven't been mentioned.

The Economist is different because they talk about only a few things and usually add a whole lot of opinion, but when I do dig deeper I find that they generally take defensible stances even if there are problems with their arguments. And if Hacker News is any indication, you'll never be able to assert anything with confidence, however well researched, without someone else asserting the exact opposite with more confidence.

My experience with Axios is that they generally avoid taking editorial positions that are obviously partisan, though they are clearly left of center on the American political spectrum (then again, I think America's current political spectrum has moved so much that the bounds of reality are now mostly left of center). When I dig deeper, I usually find that they aren't guilty of selectively presenting information. Their business model is still ad driven, so they are not immune to the classic problems of money influencing news, so I still view Axios with default skepticism.

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