When we will start using https://diasporafoundation.org
When will we stop using Facebook?
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Re: When will we stop using Facebook?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I actually forgot about g+, since none of my friends/family/acquaintances actually use it... mostly followed industry people's posts for a while, but I get most of that on twitter. G+ was a really nice imo way to work through it... too bad nobody used it in practice. I also hope that they work through a few of the issues I have with hangouts, mostly in taking over Google Voice duties, and the limited UX on the…
I remember having an idea to make something like G+ as a response to the "which groups really see what" issue shortly before G+ launched. Glad I didn't try executing on that one. Having tried G+ though I think it's too cognitively complex to categorise a few hundred contacts into various subgroups. Most users aren't going to bother. I imagine facebook takes an automatic AI type approach as to which posts it shows to…
> I think it's too cognitively complex to categorise a few hundred contacts into various subgroups. Most users aren't going to bother.
I actually think the fact that you have to specifically put people into circles when you follow them makes it pretty straightforward. It only takes a moment, I like the inline dropdown interface to check the circles you want to add them to, and while it does take a few minutes to wrap your head around the first time you use it (probably not a non-tech-Grandma-ready interface), once you get it, it's easy and works well (IMHO).
Re: When will we stop using Facebook?
#123I'm sorry but this article reads like a narcissistic wet dream. The author continues to quote himself and even misquotes himself several times (look up "facebook has tried tried to remedy" and "facebook has tried to repair"). The rest of the article slams Facebook for its success and tries to say users don't want to use Facebook. I personally love what Facebook developers are doing in terms of React and Jest. In terms of Facebook's core product, I use it for easy social login and have unfollowed anyone who posts things I don't agree with so my "feed" is pretty well curated. Myspace sank because a better product came out. When someone comes out and does Social better than Facebook, Facebook will fall but until then: if you don't like it, good news, you don't have to use it.
Re: When will we stop using Facebook?
#124When we will start using https://diasporafoundation.org
Maybe when it leaves being an alpha.
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#125I haven't read the article yet, but I stopped using Facebook a couple of years ago and it was the best decision.
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#126What will be the next big thing in social networks? What are your thoughts? Local neighbors network? No-interface social networks? Peer-to-peer? Anonymous social networks? Video based (YouTube/Twitch)? Messanger-only? No central news-feed?
Path is really good, I've been using it for about a year now. It's like FB, but much closer-knit. It's like Swarm and FB. Easy to share things, easy to decide who to share with. It started where you could only have a small number of friends, but I think they removed that requirement. A number of my close friends are on it, so it's neat to see updates that I care about from people that I care about. And then I log onto FB occasionally to wade through the updates of all the tangential friends and acquaintances just to kind of see what's going on.
FB:Path::Reddit:HackerNews I think.
Re: When will we stop using Facebook?
#127I quit facebook 2 years ago. When I greet people that I haven't seen in a while they are surprised by how genuine I feel.
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#128My wife cut off FB 2 years ago but I still use it mostly like a forum. Locally we have a group of 50ish gamers (Warhammer, 40k, Warmachine, etc) and this is the primary way games / tournaments / campaigns are set up. Even a trading area since gamer nerds are apt to constantly buy and trade their toys.
What's funny is we've had to convince our younger members to even sign up so we could communicate with them. Anyone younger than 20 in our group didn't usually have an FB account.
We've tried running traditional forums for the local group but it has never worked. FB is the only way to do it for now.
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#129When will social networks be federated?
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple cash reserve is $194 Billion ( http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/27/194b-apple-ca... ).
That article actually confirms the 33B "liquid cash" quoted in your parent. The other ~160B is "long-term investments".
last I looked at apple's financial statement,s that other 160 is in pretty liquid assets, in that if Apple wanted to spend 190 billion tomorrow, it basically could