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Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by zamnos »

manuel_w wrote: post #4

> My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're traveling, you would post it and have it under your "Traveling" album. The goal would be to allow you to create as many categories as you want and give you the ability to use whichever medium you want to use as…

It was named Google Plus, stylized as Google+, then later renamed Google Currents. Categorization is a good idea, but imo it's part of why it failed. Having separate circles means the place as a whole felt emptier, driving away users.

Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by __d »

It used to be that you'd use different networks for this.

Facebook for friends/family, LinkedIn for work, Twitter for opinions, Instagram for fashion/social events, Pintrest for crafting, FourSquare for travel/food, etc, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by Juliate »

brtkdotse wrote: post #8
mfnex wrote: post #7

"You'd be able to compartmentalize whatever content you choose to put out." I wish this were mandatory. On Twitter, when it still made sense to use it (no, it's not about Musk, it sucked by shadowbanning almost everybody who wouldn't pay well before Musk came), several people whom I should really follow for my work basically FORCED ME TO UNFOLLOW THEM, because: - their work-related tweets were ACTUALLY important for…

Sounds like you wanted LinkedIn, not Twitter.

Too late, LinkedIn has already become kind of a Facebook+Twitter mixture now…

Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by sph »

zamnos wrote: post #11
manuel_w wrote: post #4

> My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're traveling, you would post it and have it under your "Traveling" album. The goal would be to allow you to create as many categories as you want and give you the ability to use whichever medium you want to use as…

It was named Google Plus, stylized as Google+, then later renamed Google Currents. Categorization is a good idea, but imo it's part of why it failed. Having separate circles means the place as a whole felt emptier, driving away users.

Debatable. It probably failed like any other Google project that is not creating billions in revenue on day one.

Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by phendrenad2 »

"Dying" is probably a bad word to use, because people will think you mean "becoming unprofitable". Instagram is probably more profitable than ever, because it's in the same category as TikTOk at this point (which is the same category as youtube - mindlessly watching content). But yes, it's no longer a good place to look up your friends. Heck, half the friends of friends I know have their profiles set to private, which makes them completely unviewable (except for a very small profile pic to try to figure out if it's the person you know or not).

Any new social media project that tries to reconnect people without inserting heavy-handed promoted content and native advertising has my vote.

Re: Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?

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Post by ggm »

__d wrote: post #10
manuel_w wrote: post #4

> My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're traveling, you would post it and have it under your "Traveling" album. The goal would be to allow you to create as many categories as you want and give you the ability to use whichever medium you want to use as…

Google's social network was called Google+. I thought its Circles were useful too.

There was no boolean logic. It was impossible to say "my circle of friends except bob" which means you can't exclude Bob which means you can't use it to give bob a surprise party or harrass bob by exclusion. So, like a lot of powerful concepts sets and groups need boolean operators, or they are tedious and limited and "safe"

Of all the smart companies you'd think Google would understand this, but no.

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