Sounds very similar to what Blendle were trying to achieve?
So why a News Feed?
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#12When should an app do a wait list? Almost never. I get so annoyed at wait lists I never bother to participate or come back. Clubhouse infamously had this gated access thing on its launch and I don't think they had opened it up before Twitter launched Spaces.
How can you expect to build a presence in a world with infinite options if you make people wait some indeterminate time to use your app?
Sorry. Might as well not launch until you're ready to take the load. And if moderation is the concern, it's better to build a reputation system that unlocks features over time rather than block it out altogether.
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#13The reason for the drop in newsroom employees is consolidation a order of magnitude greater than was legal before Clinton's Telecommunications Act.
Twenty years ago running a local newspaper was an incredible business to be in.
You almost had a monopoly on advertising within the geographic area that you served. If a company wanted to reach people in Wilmington, Delaware their best bet by far was to buy ads in (I just looked it up) "The News Journal".
You could afford to hire a lot of reporters.
Online advertising - first Craigslist, which chomped up the classifieds section, and then Google and Facebook, which provided access to your audience with better metrics and lower rates - means that business model doesn't really work any more.
Newspapers still haven't found a model that comes anywhere close to replacing that.
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#14The reason for the drop in newsroom employees is consolidation a order of magnitude greater than was legal before Clinton's Telecommunications Act.
Twenty years ago running a local newspaper was an incredible business to be in. You almost had a monopoly on advertising within the geographic area that you served. If a company wanted to reach people in Wilmington, Delaware their best bet by far was to buy ads in (I just looked it up) "The News Journal". You could afford to hire a lot of reporters. Online advertising - first Craigslist, which chomped up the classifi…
I was in the biz (on the IT side from roughly 2007-2013. Even in that time frame writing was already on the wall.
It’s really classifieds that killed it. Maybe not in terms of absolute dollar values, but they are were way up there in ROI per unit effort. Those going away really took away a lot of runway.
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#15> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post. > We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of…
I remember a time when social media was like they describe. It was when I was in college and we used it to share photos of each other drunk at parties. It turned into a disaster the moment people decided it was also a good place to discuss news and politics.
If you want to recreate "fun social media", focus on the things that made it fun in the first place and remove everything else. And you'll be too late, because plenty of apps (TikTok the most notable one, and others like BeReal, Gas, Snapchat) are doing that very well today.
If the goal is to create a "fun" political discussion forum, well then best of luck with that. They are going to need a lot more than just goals and prayers.
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#16> We want Real People to access Real News the way they want to, in their feed, alongside the rest of their content. People should be able to interact and share through Civil Conversations.
Implying what, that other companies don't?
People think social media was freeloading off of newspapers, but the reality imo is that the internet killed classifieds and consolidated the market around a handful of national papers (NYT et Al). News and especially political news is one of main things that make social media so miserable, so if anything platforms would have preferred to have less of it.
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#17> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted?
Yes, it was before the journalists found Twitter.
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#18So what’s the revenue model and how are these publishers benefiting (it’s not their platform and not their reader)?
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#19Sounds very similar to what Blendle were trying to achieve?
It does. I'm a happy Blendle customer.
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#20> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post. > We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of…
It wasn’t lofty. It was real and existed that way. For some time too.
Maybe the scientific approach to manufacturing and maintaining adoption and the ways to do it was part of the issue.
Experiencing this early way expanded your mind and viewpoints, instead of feeding your more on the track you are to keep you scrolling. It wasn’t as much as everything was new, only that there were so many different things being experienced by others.
Unfortunately, things went towards depth instead of breadth and folks doubled down instead of discovering and being often to viewpoints and things they didn’t know anything about.
Still, maybe there’s a path forward to have a better self discovery service that’s focused on growing throw exposing to new ideas instead of doubling down on what you are today and cementing that in place.
The primacy effect is powerful for good things as much as not.