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

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Post by RobbieGM »

dbbk wrote: post #442
ratg13 wrote: post #428

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> Instagram is losing to TikTok. Is KitchenAid losing to Tesla? Is BNSF losing to PepsiCo? These statements are only valid if you think the two things should be comparable. The backlash is because people want them to be separate, and to serve separate purposes. The people at Facebook controlling Instagram are making this comparison, but to me (and probably many other people), this is more akin to KitchenAid building…

It's just so frustrating. Tech has this "winner takes all" mentality, there can only be one app to rule them all. That's what people are revolting against here... "make Instagram Instagram again". I don't understand why Facebook just cannot accept that different apps have different use cases for different people. They're already one of the biggest tech companies in the whole world. Why is that not enough? Is it greed…

> Is it greed?

What did you expect from Facebook?

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

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Post by smileysteve »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #447
jvanderbot wrote: post #445

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Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA. As a personal example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was obvious back in 2014 (read accidental superpower). As is the eventual annexation of Taiwan. Both are not the kinds of actions I like to see in the world and support efforts to reduce the occurance of those acti…

>> Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not >> promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA. Correct, in the USA, It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues, we got gas, companies got energy and everyone was happy, except US, of course Europeans are also supporting it (politicians) but they ar…

> It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues

Eyes in Ukraine, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland - and the Baltic States.

A reminder that Russias invasion of Ukraine violates the 1994 Budapest Agreement.

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

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

jvanderbot wrote: post #452
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #447

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>> Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not >> promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA. Correct, in the USA, It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues, we got gas, companies got energy and everyone was happy, except US, of course Europeans are also supporting it (politicians) but they ar…

I'm surprised to hear that. Though, I expect your opinion might not be the only one in the European continent. If you can believe the EU polls, support for Ukraine's defense is quite high: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2772 So, either those surveys are lies, or the US has somehow brainwashed EU's citizens, or there actually is broad European support for aiding Ukraine in its defense, sanctioning Russ…

I am italian, and we have always had a good relationship with Russia, either for energy, housing, boats, textile, etc. so a lot of people were not happy of this whole situation

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

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Post by jvanderbot »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #463
jvanderbot wrote: post #452

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I'm surprised to hear that. Though, I expect your opinion might not be the only one in the European continent. If you can believe the EU polls, support for Ukraine's defense is quite high: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2772 So, either those surveys are lies, or the US has somehow brainwashed EU's citizens, or there actually is broad European support for aiding Ukraine in its defense, sanctioning Russ…

I am italian, and we have always had a good relationship with Russia, either for energy, housing, boats, textile, etc. so a lot of people were not happy of this whole situation

Well, I'm glad there's a diversity of opinions and hope there's healthy debate and a reasonable outcome is reached that minimizes the suffering and maximizes the personal agency of all parties. Peace is always the best, but not always possible.

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Post by t0bia_s »

Banana699 wrote: post #460
t0bia_s wrote: post #450

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>Why ? Because ideology is wrong. >..because most of modern wesern democracies is a pathetic and transparent sham... I wouldn't argue with that, but advantage of free society is that you, as individual, can do something about it. In totalitarian state your attempts to change something that is against state ideology would be suppressed. If we, in democratic states, let others people do nasty things, than it is only be…

>Because ideology is wrong. I have no objections to political correctness being wrong, I was contradicting the claim that it's something that's going away. >If we, in democratic states, let others people do nasty things, than it is only because we let them to do it Or because they have vastly more wealth, status and connections than you, and can crush you like a bug (totally legally) if you ever went anywhere near th…

Honestly, I don't want to be one of elites. I believe in different values than being rich or powerful. If that is your goal in life, then sure, democracy could look like theater.

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

jvanderbot wrote: post #464
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #463

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I am italian, and we have always had a good relationship with Russia, either for energy, housing, boats, textile, etc. so a lot of people were not happy of this whole situation

Well, I'm glad there's a diversity of opinions and hope there's healthy debate and a reasonable outcome is reached that minimizes the suffering and maximizes the personal agency of all parties. Peace is always the best, but not always possible.

Yeah I agree with you that peace is not always possible, but there could be steps towards finding peace, the problem is that I find Zelensky too much idealistic in his view of integrity of Ukraine, and a bit not practical, while his people are dying on the battlefield, so he has to compromise I think, and the guilt that I find in US is that they keep giving all the weapons, without any restrain to force him to compromise, he is a head of a country that wants to join NATO (its in his constitution) and Russia is a power that has beef with NATO, the Russians would feel unsafe to border with a enemy entity, would you imagine if Russia would put its influence in Mexico or Cuba? What would the US do?

So I think the only way to let Zelensky think about making compromise, is to shrink gradually the amount of weapons supplied, because this war can't go on forever on european soil, and we need to get an end to it. The issue is: US doesn't any any interest touched by keeping this war, so the EU and US interests are not matched, and that's why I wouldn't consider them allies right now.

While peace is not always possible, if we balance the amount of support, to compromises, then we can get there, and I think Biden is sucking at making compromises at the moment

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

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

smileysteve wrote: post #462
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #447

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>> Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not >> promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA. Correct, in the USA, It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues, we got gas, companies got energy and everyone was happy, except US, of course Europeans are also supporting it (politicians) but they ar…

> It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues Eyes in Ukraine, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland - and the Baltic States. A reminder that Russias invasion of Ukraine violates the 1994 Budapest Agreement.

A reminder that if we go to get things from the '90, we also have the agreement of non-expansion of NATO to Russian borders.

When meanwhile NATO has been training in Ukraine on Russian borders for many years https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-military-success-years-...

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

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Post by nocommandline »

Ensorceled wrote: post #97

All of social media is broken right now. Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow. Last night a photo from my step daughter flickered briefly and then was lost. I couldn't find it again until this morning. I literally can't find their content anymore without scrolling and dodging videos that keep popping up. Youtube broke entirely a few months ago…

>> Facebook does this weird thing were after someone I know recommends a video, my feed switches to recommended videos entirely until I click back to home

This switching to similar 'stuff' because you looked at one thing seems to be common on social media and my guess is that this is due to 'wrong' application of recommendation engines. Twitter, LinkedIn does it too.

While logged in to Twitter, you click a 'one-off' tweet and suddenly your timeline is filled with those types of tweets and those type of topics. If you go to your settings/topics, you will see that it is now populated with variations of that topic.

Same thing with LinkedIn. You view a job and your feed/job recommendation is now populated with those type of jobs.

Social media companies don't seem to be accounting for - oh, maybe I was just being curious about this tweet or this job or this company. It's especially bad for Twitter given that you already follow certain people so they have an idea of your interest

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

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Post by pukexxr »

Banana699 wrote: post #455
t0bia_s wrote: post #444

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You name only negative side of democratic system. Which is good, because you can. That is one of visible principles of democracy. You wouldn't be able to speak publicly like that in China. But... Do not forget about positive aspects of personal freedoms, individual rights, etc. Btw, what is a perfect system for you?

>That is one of visible principles of democracy. You wouldn't be able to speak publicly like that in China. This is the "Helpless Voice" aspect, 'democracy' allowed you to scream at the top of your lungs about how it sucks, giving you the illusion that you're more free than you really are. Imagine if Putin made it legal to insult him on the streets, would that make it any less of a totalitarianism ? >Btw, what is a p…

Nihilist anarchism and Max Stirner may be up your alley. The Wolfi Landstriecher translation is the one you want.

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

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Post by vannevar »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #459
vannevar wrote: post #449

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>Plenty of capitalists are happy running businesses at steady state. There are plenty of business owners who are happy to run at steady state---sole proprietors and family businesses, for example. These kinds of businesses can exist without capital per se, they can be financed with debt. But for businesses with investors, which is to say businesses backed by capital with the expectation that there will be a substanti…

> business owner may philosophically believe in capitalism, but that does not make them a capitalist in the active sense You've defined capitalism circularly to your argument. A steady-stage investor, whether a sole proprietor or outside investor in a business throwing off healthy dividends, is by definition not a capitalist by your book. Fine. Let's abandon the word for now. The broader system of private ownership--…

>You've defined capitalism circularly to your argument.

Not so much a circular definition as a practical one. Technically an investor could invest only to get dividends or rent, but in today's world, in both the stock market and real estate, growth and appreciation dominate. Maybe this is a cultural preference that could be changed, but I think it's deeper than that: the growth imperative emerges from the competitive nature of capitalism itself, so that the system is inevitably and unavoidably growth-seeking. I hope you're right, and that a more essential asset preservation + income system can be sustained. But without significant wealth regulation, I have my doubts.

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