Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by bot41 » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

I don't see a Facebook clone beating it but other social sites like TikTok will rise up.

I doubt Facebook will be allowed to buy any more social networks like Instagram.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by Someone1234 » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

I don't think a single competitor will beat Facebook.

Facebook isn't any single thing, some people use it for only Messenger, some for family photo Sharing, some for private status updates, and others as general news feed or public status. Then you have the other company customer chat/landing pages and marketplace.

If Facebook ever goes away it will be death by a thousand cuts, rather than some 800 lbs gorilla storming through and eating Facebook's lunch. It is too large.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by kliwo » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

TikTok maybe ;)

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 10:51 PM UTC

julienreszka wrote: post #8

forgotmysn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in that case, no.

You can make your own definition, I don't own it for everyone here

No, but you're asking the question so you should at least define it in a way that gets it answered accurately.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by rawgabbit » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

If you’re talking about a social media site that makes money through ads, Google might try again with Hangouts9.0. Microsoft might rollout a competitor too. Or they could partner up with China’s Wechat to make it palatable for western users.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by phendrenad2 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:40 AM UTC

Facebook is big enough that they can just buy any social media platform that starts to cut into their revenue. I don't think they'll be "beaten" for a few decades.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

#17

Post by hahaiscjaaka » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 2:07 AM UTC

Google.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

#18

Post by heybecker » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

Give it time. Gen Z is ghosting Facebook and the next generation won't want to be able to be tagged in all their embarrassing baby pictures

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by phasnox » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 3:06 AM UTC

Ahh what the hell, I don't mind the downvotes: Parler

Re: Ask HN: Do you know any company likely to beat Facebook?

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Post by rendall » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 3:31 AM UTC

I think FB brought a vision of what is possible: ubiquitous, universal, interacting personal profiles and self-publishing. That concept is never going away.

My hope is that this concept will evolve into a more of an interoperating protocol of self-hosted entities, like RSS or IRC

I don't think another closed-garden-we-control-your-data website is going to replace Facebook, ever.