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Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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Post by cbozeman »

anotheracctfo wrote: post #166
cbozeman wrote: post #113

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Instagram and Facebook don't have the functionality that Facebook has, that's the problem. Instagram is for photo sharing. Hell, it's not even for that... it's a dating app for women, that doesn't advertise itself as a dating app for women. WhatsApp is just another telephone and messaging app, there's not much special about it as far as I can tell. It's ICQ on a smartphone and I guess, maybe, a better interface. I wa…

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Sir, this is a Hacker News.

Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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ipaddr wrote: post #107
jacobolus wrote: post #92

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Works fine in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22high+tc%22+record Edit: and also Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22high%20tc%22%20record

What are we looking for here? The results seem equally as confusing as the query

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Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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Post by edgyquant »

rolph wrote: post #77
voisin wrote: post #50

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Sounds a lot like Google Search results. It’s almost as if advertising dollars are an addictive drug that ultimately kills the company.

--that coupled with inability to realize that blasting ads at people doesnt make your product look better, it makes your product a source of frustration, and a daily/hourly annoyance, your product is associated with bad, and is avoided. the answer to the problem includes the concept of less is more.

Not really since no one’s cares about the annoyances-if they did no company would run ads but the exact opposite is true

Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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Post by edgyquant »

ycta2334209 wrote: post #159
duped wrote: post #116

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Which companies were killed by ads?

Tumblr - banned 18+ content in 2018(?) in an attempt to make their site more advertiser-friendly and lost most of their userbase within a couple of months. Site was thriving before that.

This is a dishonest answer. Tumblr died because it’s niche was adult content. Banning your niche is choosing to fail.

Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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Post by wikitopian »

This period is best understood as a brutal hangover from several years of market subsidized growth. We had cheap Ubers, cheap meal delivery, and free web services all paid for by a speculative bubble which is in the process of popping.

Meta can't just admit that they don't have a viable business model or their stocks will truly crash, so they have no choice but to cannibalize their remaining customers, like how phone and cable companies screw the remaining people with landline phone service and traditional cable packages.

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Post by titzer »

cphoover wrote: post #148

and it's all crap. Very low quality content... especially on video. Terrible recommendations. YouTube has the same problem. Whoever is leading recs is doing a terrible job.

The recommendation system was really addictive for me for a while. I was wasting a ton of time on YouTube. Then I switched off recommendations based on my watch history and it suddenly got abysmally bad. And hallelujah, that worked like a charm. I spend almost no time on YouTube at all now. Whoever thinks that recommendations aren't predatory time sinks probably hasn't experienced both sides of that.

Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

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Post by yojo »

nradov wrote: post #144
ineptech wrote: post #61

Crazy idea: FB should stop trying to lure people back from Tiktok with weird features and just lean in to its one remaining strength, which is that among social media sites, it's the most generic and boring and ubiquitous. Being the default place for non-influencers to do quotidian stuff like hearing about school closings, joining the PTA or HOA, coordinating family gatherings, see your nephew's school photos, etc wo…

That would be the low risk strategy. Just run it as a cash cow value business and extract as much profit as possible until it dies. However, Mark Zuckerberg has chosen to bet the company on AR/VR and is investing $10B into that area. If they get it wrong then he'll look like an idiot. If they get it right by building the next major platform for humans to communicate then he'll look like a visionary genius. We won't k…

People gave Google a ton of crap for buying YouTube for 1.6 billion (~16% of annual revenue at the time). That $10B FB spent is more like 8.5% of their revenue.

I’m skeptical of the metaverse, but I was also pretty skeptical of user-generated video. And given their current ad take, $10B is not a crazy bet.

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