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Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by _jal »

dagw wrote: post #246
_jal wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edited to add acquisitions, where appropriate: - Maps (Keyhole, Where2, Endoxion) - AdWords (Doubleclick) - Gmail (reMail) - YouTube (Youtube) - Analytics (Urchin) - Translate (Phonetic Arts) - Calendar (Timeful) - Docs (Upstartle)

Google Maps, the web application, was not an acquisition. Google bought two companies that made desktop mapping tools (One of them lived on as Google Earth Pro and was a commercial product they kept selling for years) and used that as a basis for developing the web based Google Maps. Also based on everything I can find, Gmail started as an in house project. reMail was acquired 5+ years after Gmail launched.

Agreed, this gets super fuzzy at some point, most quibbles with the list will probably have some merit.

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edm0nd wrote: post #199
alexb_ wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are Chinese companies doing metaverse wise?

Likely waiting on stolen metaverse R&D from American companies given to them from the Chinese government. That's the entire Chinese nation-state backed hackers MO. Steal R&D from Fortune 500 companies to then give it to private Chinese businesses to further the Chinese economy. Why waste your own time/money/resources on R&D when you can just steal it. Same with IP and IP laws. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-h…

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Post by winternett »

just_boost_it wrote: post #39
winternett wrote: post #2

It's interesting that they don't care, it's a Marie Antoinette-esque attitude to their lifeblood, and ultimately what will end their dominance. The truth is they converted a free service into a pay service (the gas-lights creators and businesses into paying for visibility). The visibility, even when paid for is not very fruitful for many as well... If you run a small business like a restaurant in the US, but get 40,0…

I can't see IRC coming back as there's just slightly too much friction for the common person to get up and running. I could see websites coming back (I mean like the way people used to actually browse websites instead of social media). The problem with websites at the moment is discoverability. Google's SEO is a major roadblock to this at the moment. A way around it might be a "web of discoverability", with meaningfu…

IRC, not in the classic essence of connecting to chat servers, but browser-based options exist. It would be really cool if someone made a tool like Twitter spaces, but for one-on one conversations with random people... e.g. A voice-only chat tool that paired you with random people within different fields for conversations.

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Post by kuboble »

benbristow wrote: post #91
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

Definitely can't be helping. I saw an ad on LinkedIn a few months ago for Coinbase and applied out of curiosity. Was very intimidating as a British 'commoner' who went to a very average university to be being grilled on Leetcode/Hackerrank questions by fresh male-Asian Stanford/MIT/top-US-university graduates (not being stereotypical - this was true!). Didn't stand a chance really as I don't do well with algorithmic…

I don't know if that is helpful but logarithms are quite an easy concept that helps with thinking about code complexity.

It's an inverse of exponent which translates to " grows very slowly with input size. 10 for a thousand, 20 for a million etc.". It helps to quickly ballpark feasability the same way exponential complexity usually means "doesn't scale above 30"

Log(n) is a

- number of digits required to write a number

- depth of a balanced tree of size n

- running time of any algorithm working on input of size n which does fixed cost operation to cut input in half (e.g binary search). If your code has cost function f(n) = 1 + f(n/2) then it has logarithmic performance.

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Post by loudandskittish »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #237
loudandskittish wrote: post #223

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> Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow. I find it all that for all the data these companies have, they don't seem to be using it well...or stopped using it. Facebook has suddenly started flooding me with posts from political meme groups I never joined and have never even looked at. Twitch's recommended section used to be spot-on. Now they're t…

Twitch has a situation where they are trying to improve discoverability of underperforming streamers. The directory used to just be sorted by live concurrent viewers, which I guess does do a lot to ensure that the front page is full of streams that people will watch (by virtue of them already being watched) but it also leads to the site being dominated by a very small group of people. Youtube does very well but it's…

But the thing is, a year ago, Twitch actually did a good job suggesting people with only six viewers. *Now* for some reason, they're pushing people in hot tubs who already have thousands of viewers. That's what I'm complaining about.

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Post by csours »

anoonmoose wrote: post #184
MikusR wrote: post #145

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Youtube has a whole section with all the people you follow. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions all the videos are in reverse chronological order. Twitter has a button with stars where you can select to show only the tweets of people you follow in reverse chronological order. Called Latest Tweets.

I got super excited for that YouTube functionality, then I clicked the link and realized that either I follow way too many people for this to be useful, or the people I follow are producing way more content than I can handle. I guess maybe if I "un-ring" the bell for a few of the bigger channels this could be useful...

It's painful, but I have pruned my subscription list of people who upload often but I rarely watch. At this point my YouTube subscription list is channels where I open the video more than 50% of the time.

I don't know if that's "fair" or not, but it's how I keep the subscription page useful.

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Post by FredPret »

asdff wrote: post #255
edm0nd wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely waiting on stolen metaverse R&D from American companies given to them from the Chinese government. That's the entire Chinese nation-state backed hackers MO. Steal R&D from Fortune 500 companies to then give it to private Chinese businesses to further the Chinese economy. Why waste your own time/money/resources on R&D when you can just steal it. Same with IP and IP laws. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-h…

I don't blame them tbh. On a whole species level, why are we inventing the wheel hundreds of separate times just to satisfy pedantic legalese? Any alien observing earth would think we are idiots and clearly nothing to be worried about because we do stuff like this, in the name of profits usually, instead of just sharing ideas openly with each other.

Actually it's pretty smart to reward the inventive ones and punish the freeloaders, or else there'd be a rush to become a freeloader and stop the hard work of inventing - leading to species-wide collapse.

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Post by can16358p »

matsemann wrote: post #11

If at least the algorithm was any good, people might not have complained as much. Like, I only follow sport stuff. Some triathletes, professional bicyclists, skiers etc. What does Instagram then decide to show me? A female cyclist with her zipper down and lots of cleavage, a skier in bikini, ass pics of swimmers etc.. Probably that's the most trending stuff related to my interests, but I follow no accounts related to…

That's interesting. The algorithmic feed, even though I'm not a fan, shows me stuff that I'm actually genuinely interested in, and I'm not generally interested in the pop culture so it's not that, it really is targeted and successful.

Having said that, I used to love Instagram much more when it was a photo, forget reels, not even regular video/IGTV, platform.

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Post by t_mann »

edm0nd wrote: post #199
alexb_ wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are Chinese companies doing metaverse wise?

Likely waiting on stolen metaverse R&D from American companies given to them from the Chinese government. That's the entire Chinese nation-state backed hackers MO. Steal R&D from Fortune 500 companies to then give it to private Chinese businesses to further the Chinese economy. Why waste your own time/money/resources on R&D when you can just steal it. Same with IP and IP laws. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-h…

Copying is a great source of innovation and industrial development. Take German engineering ('Made in Germany' was a label originally intended to make the German copycats more visible in England, from where the processes were copied, but that sort of backfired in hindsight), the Swiss watch and pharma industries (based on French patents that were practically unenforceable in Switzerland at the time)...

Once you have a process up and running, it's almost human instinct to try and improve it. If you start by copying the latest stuff, chances are you'll find a few new tweaks.

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Post by gjs278 »

Strom wrote: post #49
mnd999 wrote: post #22

“I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be” Sure, because they could get the information they want without having to wade through the mountains of crap you’re pumping out of the septic tank into your users faces. You’re optimising the wrong metric you fucking clown.

You have a good point that would stand even stronger without the name calling.

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