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Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by rchaud »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #51
aNoob7000 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps. Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family/friends group in Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal (pick your poison).

because I want to know what my friends from college are up to? being in a messenger app group represents a much closer social relationship

After grad school, I completely lost interest in keeping up with people I wasn't in at least semi-regular contact with. The drip feed of info on social media is irritating to deal with. I feel like a 5 minute catchup st a 5-10 year reunion would achieve the exact same thing and be more pleasant to hear about and engage with.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by rchaud »

exabrial wrote: post #83
bedast wrote: post #11

Instagram 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

How did TikTok become popular without influencers?

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by rchaud »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #102

The fact is Meta is still raking in $B's in profit a year, so it's not like it needs to do this. Better to focus on long-term retention of users (through fewer ads) than short term profits. This is the problem with being beholden to public shareholders / stock price, and one reason why Twitter is likely to fare better under Musk (whatever you or I may think of him as a person) than as a public company.

Maybe they're expecting a large drop-off in daily users over the next 6 months and are trying to cushion the expected drop in revenue by jacking up the number of ads.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by lifeplusplus »

candiddevmike wrote: post #30
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #23

I am a bit sad about the decline of Instagram. For a few years, I could watch the daily life of all my friends and acquaintances. Lots of organic communication and mutual engagement happened. Now only businesspeople, narcissists and (wannabe) influencers are left. At this point I feel embarrassed to upload anything. Not that it matters, engagement from other people is at an all time low. Comments seem to be mostly bo…

This is why everyone is reverting to private group chats. Turns out being connected to everyone, everywhere, isn't that great.

Discord

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by cloutchaser »

zaat wrote: post #139
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Zuckerberg can't be this dumb You are giving this person too much credit. His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse, a soulless "Second Life 2 with VR and blockchain support". > Can someone explain how a company like Meta arrives at a decision like this? Maybe everyone just gave up, they know they have no way to fix Meta, so they are just gonna squeeze the lemon really, re…

> His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse To take something like Facebook from very successful college site into the behemoth it is now with luck alone one needs a particularly shining star.

Yeah this is a very silly and ignorant argument, especially when so many other smart people say Zuckerberg is insanely ambitious and smart. If building a $1trn company would be this easy everyone would be doing it.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by mab122 »

fdewrewrewf wrote: post #81
evouga wrote: post #75

It's almost impossible to overstate how significantly social media altered the fabric of the Internet. From "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" to everybody having seen multiple photos of your dog. From a decentralized web of special-interest fiefdoms to digital sharecropping. And now, the era of social media is over. Instagram's death leaves Twitter as the last relevant social network, and Twitter's prospec…

>content distribution platforms serving a large audience that passively consumes the content of a small cadre of creators. Given the rise of TikTok-style endless scrolling through short video content, there is a surprisingly apt comparison - channel-hopping through hundreds of channels when you know it's all crap.

> channel-hopping through hundreds of channels when you know it's all crap.

We went full circle! Maybe really next step will be some more personal and decentralized media.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by mdrzn »

random42_ wrote: post #38
323 wrote: post #15

75% of the normal Instagram feed (not the stories) is now account promotions and recommendations. It's impossible to browse it and look at what you followed anymore.

At least on Instagram for iOS, you have the option to tap the Instagram logo on the top left corner and choose "Following". It will only show posts from the accounts you follow and, at least for me, there are barely ads there.

I've been using the platform since 2014 and I've just discovered I can click on the Instagram logo to see that "following" feed. Kudos.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

cloutchaser wrote: post #176
zaat wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse To take something like Facebook from very successful college site into the behemoth it is now with luck alone one needs a particularly shining star.

Yeah this is a very silly and ignorant argument, especially when so many other smart people say Zuckerberg is insanely ambitious and smart. If building a $1trn company would be this easy everyone would be doing it.

> If building a $1trn company would be this easy everyone would be doing it.

He didn't build 1 trillion dollar company -his team did. He was just there at the right time and did the right thing when he developed the initial version of Facebook, something any somewhat competent full stack developer can do -and I am explicitly talking about the initial version, not the planet scale real time super systems his team later came up with.

I'd argue if any of us were sent back in time just one year before he started working on Facebook, we could easily be the Facebook founder of that timeline.

Re: Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline

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Post by jbullock35 »

cityzen wrote: post #142
jbullock35 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The evidence for that quotation is weak. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937710#32938981 .

Right, from zuck himself? "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages. https://www.gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-ca…

Gawker didn't get it quite right. Here's what the New Yorker article [1] actually says:

> When I asked Zuckerberg about the IMs that have already been published online, and that I have also obtained and confirmed, he said that he “absolutely” regretted them.

It doesn't say that Zuckerberg confirmed the particular quotation that you offered.

That said, I take your point. The New Yorker author said that he had confirmed the message containing the quote, and Zuckerberg didn't deny sending the message, and he expressed regret about it.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa...

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