> The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon. This can be interesting.
It's step 1) of the scenario outlined in this comment:
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#32So they are copying twitter now, I guess the circle of the internet has been completed, or maybe they after they fail this they will take a shoot on copying vbulletin/ipb forums from 2007 again?
bring back slow paced forum
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#33Sounds a lot like... Facebook?
Ah yes but they alienated most young people by letting the boomers go crazy in there
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#34Public 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.
8 years ago, in marketing workshops I ran (badly but that's another topic and the public was really out of touch, it was more an intro to social networks, anyway), I boldly claimed "Facebook is dead but don't worry Messenger is here" and then I'd explained the concepts of direct messaging, humane digital relationships, always-on concierge service, etc.
I still think people better move from social networks to messaging services with people they actually have connections with (real life or digital).
Edit: Hey, I was not that wrong: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/zuckerberg-facebook-...
> > Public social networks will continue to be very important in people's lives—for connecting with everyone you know, discovering new people, ideas and content, and giving people a voice more broadly. People find these valuable every day, and there are still a lot of useful services to build on top of them. But now, with all the ways people also want to interact privately, there's also an opportunity to build a simpler platform that's focused on privacy first.
> He acknowledges Facebook is an odd fit for this approach, saying, "frankly we don't currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services, and we've historically focused on tools for more open sharing," but:
> > I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won't stick around forever. This is the future I hope we will help bring about.
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#35Isn’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.
Twitter is "a raging dumpster fire" only for Space Man Bad people motivated by politics.
For the rest of us, it's actually better than it's ever been, especially if you're like me and living outside of North America. It's snappier and more open than Twitter 1.0, and it's not banning people at the behest of the FBI.
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#36So they are copying twitter now, I guess the circle of the internet has been completed, or maybe they after they fail this they will take a shoot on copying vbulletin/ipb forums from 2007 again?
I loved those forums.
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#37Public 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.
No, it doesn't. On est bien avancés là hein ?
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#38Maybe 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?
Build a super app that contains an in-house variant of almost everything that becomes popular. WeChat for example.
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#39Isn'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.
Couldn't they just remove the requirement to post an image/video?
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#40I am waiting for the day they integrate something like this in whatsapp. Welcome to your new social media app 2bn users. Would be the first social media account my parents have