The people who care about decentralization and like Meta/Facebook are two separate circles, but its interesting that they're supposedly building on ActivityPub.
Gearing up for a classic EEE move, probably.
Meta preps new social app
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#12No, thanks. Facebook/Meta has already done enough harm and I rarely meet anyone younger than me who still uses it. People tend to not like it.
This looks to be based around Instagram, which certainly does have young users
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#13Meta runs the world's most highly regarded adverting platform which is already populated with the campaigns of almost every brand on the planet.
Brands already have limited ad spend with the global economy the way it is. And the fact that this will be a new channel that will be highly effective, work with their existing tools and require no additional effort will be compelling.
And that will extinguish what little revenue Musk hasn't fettered away. Twitter is finished.
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#14Isn’t this exactly what you’d expect to happen given Twitter has become a raging dumpster fire and Meta has enough networking effect to get a Twitter clone off the ground?
File under: “Obvious things to do when you think about it”, really.
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#15Isn't instagram twitter-like already? So it seems they want to capitalize on the Mastodon crowd and make a centralized version that works well. At least they should revert back to 140-200 character limit. Twitters extended tweets is a mistake and are degrading it
Yes and no. IG requires that you post an image/video. This is their Twitter clone.
To me it's an obvious move. Try to move in when Twitter is in an odd transitional period. Not saying I have any interest in using it, but from a strategy standpoint it makes complete sense.
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#16> The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon.
This can be interesting.
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#17Maybe Meta is trying to follow the model of Chinese tech companies.
* Copy what works
* Build re-usable internal systems so you can quickly go from prototypes to millions of users
* Internal competition where teams are trying to create the same product and outdo other internal teams
Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that Meta can successfully copy Chinese companies. One major reason is that software developers in the US are significantly more expensive so you have to be more strategic.
Chinese companies are dominating in social apps. TikTok is just the start.
https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-bytedance-became-the-worlds-most...
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#18Public networks are dead. We did it for two decades and now people need to go back to something more real and private. Social networks in the current form are just attention seeking. We've been trained to say things that will garner likes and retweets. I welcome text and chat, maybe even voice to text but not in the public form. Closed networks only now.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the point of posting this? You may not be their target demographic. No one's forcing you to use it. If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in), commenting "That will be a hard no from me thanks." is a waste of time and space.
An opinon on what the OP of the comment thinks about it? That's the joy of HN. You get the folks who are bullish on a 'new' idea, and those who aren't.
There's no explanation about why the OP thinks the way he does. If there was some interesting commentary or question, that would be worth reading about.
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#20I'm sure it won't be a horrible privacy-violating, mental illness-inducing mess.
Meta would never do that.