Their choice to make the app "compatible with Mastodon" (uses the ActivityPub protocol and is basically a huge Mastodon instance) reminds me of the famous Microsoft "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" model. Not sure that Extinguish part is going to work though, considering AP/Mastodon are open source protocols/platforms and easily forkable.
Meta preps new social app
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#22Sounds a lot like... Facebook?
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#23I really can't see the point in this. > Tagline: “Instagram for your thoughts.” That will be a hard no from me thanks.
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.
> If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in)
But I am interested in social media apps, its hard not to be these days. I just don't see the point from Meta's point of view, apart from more data collection maybe, and I don't see the point from the users point when Mastodon and Twitter are doing this, with arguably more respect for their users than Meta.
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#24Maybe 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…
And what is that model?
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#25No, 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
Yes, if they carefully hide they're not Meta/Facebook it might work, since people generally don't read EULAs.
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#26one twitter is already bad enough for my mental health
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#27Earlier 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.
> If I see a post about a new Lisp dialect (something I have no interest in) But I am interested in social media apps, its hard not to be these days. I just don't see the point from Meta's point of view, apart from more data collection maybe, and I don't see the point from the users point when Mastodon and Twitter are doing this, with arguably more respect for their users than Meta.
Twitter is valued at ~$10b and still generating ad revenue.
There is demand for a Twitter clone that is closer to what it was before Musk joined.
Therefore as a pure business opportunity it makes a lot of sense.
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#28Maybe 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…
And what is that model?
One multi-usage phone app (chat, pay, navigate, …)
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#29I am actually quite positive about this.
Instagram is great for visual artists, but its extreme focus on images (and short videos) seems to favour shallow ideas. Text seems more appropriate to my likings.
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#30Public 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.
reddit disagrees.