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Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#101

Post by themagician »

newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut?

Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somone use Instagram is one of the most depressing things I can imagine in terms of human social interaction.

IG was an app designed to share photos in the moment. It was a digital Polaroid. That was a pretty cool idea. That core feature is essentially gone and so is the community around it.

IG now is a platform of the least common denominator. 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme/image macro hybrid abominations designed to get likes. I don’t even really know what you call them. They aren’t videos, or flops or even memes. The best phrase I can think of is digital media noise. IG is like some kind of weird digital static. If you wanted to broadcast incompressible nonsense into outspace the best way to do it would be broadcast the explore tab on IG.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#102

Post by spike021 »

themagician wrote: post #101
newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

>Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved.

>IG now is a platform of the least common denominator. 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme/image mace hybrid abominations designed to get likes.

I guess you aren't following the right people or accounts, then.

I've seen plenty of engaging and cool content. I've even become friends with people from the opposite side of the world. Basically a modern kind of pen pal.

And this all happens while I'm still able to share photos in the moment.

The only thing about IG I absolutely hate is the non-chronological feed. It's ridiculously terrible, even reloading before I've seen the most recent posts.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#103

Post by confiscate »

dangwu wrote: post #67
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

Your life now may be better than the one where you accepted Kevin’s offer.

That is rationalization, where we try to apply "logic" to make ourselves feel better about a bad situation.

The chances are low that life is better now, after losing out on a chance to be an early part of Instagram.

That's like saying a homeless person's life may be better than if he had a home. Ya statistically that scenario is possible.

But if you had a choice, do you really want that homeless person to stay homeless and just keep telling him "your life may be better now"? Or do you want that person's life to improve so that he eventually has a home?

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#104

Post by kccqzy »

themagician wrote: post #101
newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

> 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme/image mace hybrid abominations designed to get likes.

IG is like twitter in that the more effort you put in to curate the people you follow, the more rewarding your timeline is. I never look at Explore, but I look at the pictures in my own timeline and enjoy them.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#105

Post by confiscate »

tsunamifury wrote: post #83
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

Why did everyone run into Larry so much back then and what happened to the startup party scene... which was so odd at the time. Edit: Found my answers on quora, I’ll let you look yourselves as I don’t want to link to what may be gossip but I had a laugh and a wave of nostalgia for those heady nonsense days

who is Larry and why does this person matter? I searched on Google but could not find anything relevant.

I actually met Larry at a bitcoin event a while back. Seems like a normal guy. Is there some back story I am not aware of?

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#106

Post by Kiro »

themagician wrote: post #101
newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

I haven't seen a single meme in my Instagram feed ever. It's 100% photos my friends take.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#107

Post by kart23 »

thrower123 wrote: post #44
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is here to stay. They are not Myspace. They are following the model of many of the tech companies that survive. If they can't copy it they will buy it. They have enough revenues that they can buy any hot startup and nurse it to success. Zuckerberg will likely be CEO for at least the next 10 years and has shown that he can learn from mistakes and continue to succeed. He's one of the few that has learned his w…

Facebook is dead. They have lost all momentum. The older people that have not moved on to snapchat or Instagram are exactly those that will be flummoxed by the changes.

Honestly, it is dead in terms of people wanting to be on it. But in college, as I've recently discovered, everything is on Facebook, whether it be clubs, your hall mates, study groups, anything.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#108

Post by weego »

confiscate wrote: post #103
dangwu wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your life now may be better than the one where you accepted Kevin’s offer.

That is rationalization, where we try to apply "logic" to make ourselves feel better about a bad situation. The chances are low that life is better now, after losing out on a chance to be an early part of Instagram. That's like saying a homeless person's life may be better than if he had a home. Ya statistically that scenario is possible. But if you had a choice, do you really want that homeless person to stay homele…

I think the more brutal reality is that just because you had been there then instead of someone else doesn't mean Instagram would have done what it did. Maybe as a first hire you'd have jerked around more than the actual person, or missed deadlines or just made bad choices which lead to zero traction.

It's egotistical to assume that it being you instead leads to the same result

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

#110

Post by matthewmacleod »

themagician wrote: post #101
newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

I admit I’m surprised to hear that.

I don’t use Instagram that often. Sometimes I pop on to see pictures of friends’ kids, holidays, parties, or events. That’s basically 90% of what I see. I post holiday pictures and interesting things I cook, because some other people like to see them. Sometimes there are ads in my feed, and for the most part they’re inoffensive products that I even sometimes look at!

It’s just kind of the least offensive form of social media I can think of. I’m surprised to hear that so many people hate it.

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