AKA a "death spiral".
Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline
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Why login to anything at all? Why use whatsapp, telegram, or signal when every phone already does this and has been doing this for years? I have all of my friends and family in specific groups devoid of any specific apps. To be fair people were saying the same thing 20 years ago when AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messenger were the big thing. All messaging platforms will eventually die is my experience thus far.
SMS is slow and bad at rich media. Unless you're talking about iMessage - then you are logged in with your Apple ID - it's exactly like WhatsApp/Telegram + closed for people outside of your hardware ecosystem.
I have people in my groups that are on android. Doesn't seem to be an issue for them. Then again, if I want to have a real conversation, I just call them.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
SMS is slow and bad at rich media. Unless you're talking about iMessage - then you are logged in with your Apple ID - it's exactly like WhatsApp/Telegram + closed for people outside of your hardware ecosystem.
I have people in my groups that are on android. Doesn't seem to be an issue for them. Then again, if I want to have a real conversation, I just call them.
What would happen if those people on Android tried to convince you to let's say telegram?
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At least TikTok makes it easy to opt out of political programming. A couple of thumbs down presses whenever those show up in your feed does the trick.
For the moment, that is. I'm not saying this is an issue specific to TikTok, just that it's very easy for them to change how things work, just as Instagram is changing to increase ads.
hey I'm new to HN and was searching for some posts on "XMPP" and other chat backends and saw you posted on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635547
I am considering using ejabbered and wondering what your thoughts are on it today. Thanks
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#155It seems so obvious to us that this is a short term win at the expense of the long term. I wonder if data driven companies like this are locked into local minimums via tons of short term optimizations to boost metrics. In optimization algorithms like stochastic gradient descent, some form of entropy (crucially temporarily decreasing fitness) or exploration (having parallel evaluations of the fitness function) is nece…
“Prioritize this quarter. (Next one, I’ll probably have moved to the A, the N or the G with increased compensation.)”
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#156Instagram is one of the last social media platforms I use. It's mostly about my dogs. I follow mostly greyhound people. My feed is about half greyhounds and half ads. Increasing ad load from that? I guess it's time to retire my Instagram account. This might be the thing that gets me to bite the bullet and actually check out Pixelfed.
Can I ask you, what are those ads you see? Are they mostly related to greyhounds?
FB/IG has a "Why am I seeing this ad?" and you can see what demographics being targeted are, e.g. location, gender, age range.
Funnily enough, Facebook has been showing me ads for lingerie the last few days, although I put in real age and gender (male), and it should know I'm single...
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#157Musk is going to turn Twitter into the X app similar to WeChat I guess. Why can't or won't Meta do the same thing?
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Yeah that's more of a startup mentality where you're trying to prove to your next round of investors that your growth is going to be 10x then 100x then 1000x and will then eat an entire industry. If someone's buying Meta stock at this point it's pretty obviously not on an infinite growth trajectory.
I suspect they're still pretending it has growth left; once it's clear that they DO NOT have much growth left, the stock will slowly settle to a "reasonable" p/e. Or suddenly plummet to one, who knows.
You mean like a P/E of 11.6 while the rest of the total US market is 20? Ya I'll take those almost 2x earnings.
Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline
#159Instagram is one of the last social media platforms I use. It's mostly about my dogs. I follow mostly greyhound people. My feed is about half greyhounds and half ads. Increasing ad load from that? I guess it's time to retire my Instagram account. This might be the thing that gets me to bite the bullet and actually check out Pixelfed.
Pixelfed looks incredible, but we need all of the "influencers" to install it for it to matter
I don't really care about all of that. Really, I'm more of the "shouting into the void" kind of situation as I know no one cares about my postings, but I do it anyway.
So Pixelfed wouldn't really change things for me except give me a better experience while shouting into the void.
Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline
#160Instagram is one of the last social media platforms I use. It's mostly about my dogs. I follow mostly greyhound people. My feed is about half greyhounds and half ads. Increasing ad load from that? I guess it's time to retire my Instagram account. This might be the thing that gets me to bite the bullet and actually check out Pixelfed.
I was curious to check this out but it looks like Pixelfed is locked and not accepting new registrations right now?
You can host your own and it's federated. The "fed" part makes it a portmanteau of "pixel federated". There's also multiple other hosts you can sign up to.