Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by ClikeX » Fri, Aug 07, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

ogre_codes wrote: post #335

ClikeX wrote: post #327

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Is going to be? Instagram already lost me a while ago. It started to hamfist Snapchat stories in there. I also believe they tried to force in Facebook Messenger features at some point. It also totally ruined any proper disoverability. You like one Comic Book post and suddenly you only get stupid text only posts about superhero facts. With no way to manually configure your interests. And to make things worse, my perso…

> All I want is sharing pictures I took with my friends, while also looking at photography from random people. Sharing pics & stories with friends/ family was why I started using FB years ago. I think Instagram became popular because FB had become a polluted mess before young people even had a chance to try it. Older people just stuck around out of habit. I never liked IG because generally my FB posts and images are…

It's like every Social Media is just doomed at some point.

Most just end up polluting their functionality so much that it destroys the original core.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by kdtsh » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 4:25 AM UTC

_2d30 wrote: post #130

dimitrios1 wrote: post #101

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Yeah it really feels like IBM in the sense that it had some really amazing engineers that built the company up, and after they left, they have just been resting on those laurels ever sense. What have they truly innovated recently?

The division they have helped foment in the US is pretty impressive.

If division can be fomented by giving everyone a megaphone, then the people were already divided, they just didn't know it. I don't agree with all of Twitter's moderation, but this is a symptom, not the disease.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by WhyNotHugo » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

OzzyB wrote: post #9

Quoting from the excellent blog post[1] submitted here yesterday[0] that stole my morning workout time: " Instagram is some strange hybrid mix of social and interest graph, and now it’s also a jumble of formats, with a Stories feed relegated to a top bar in the app while the more stagnant and less active original feed continues to run vertically as the default. Messaging is pushed to a separate pane and also served b…

> Messaging is pushed to a separate pane and also served by a separate app.

Wait, there's a separate app for IG messages? For iOS? Link? I can't find _any_ references to it.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by Panini_Jones » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 2:23 AM UTC

ClikeX wrote: post #328

Panini_Jones wrote: post #298

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Facebook came out with the Oculus Quest last year which is hugely innovative.

Apart from Quest being a standalone device, it was just an iteration on the original Rift. And it was another company they bought, and I'd be more inclined to give credits to the Occulus team than to Facebook.

> Apart from Quest being a standalone device, it was just an iteration on the original Rift

In that it's a VR device, yes. But it's a standalone headset with Inside Out tracking. Many people didn't think this was possible.

> And it was another company they bought, and I'd be more inclined to give credits to the Occulus team than to Facebook.

A significant amount of FB employees developed this headset. It is Oculus is Facebook now.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by Panini_Jones » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

ngokevin wrote: post #299

Panini_Jones wrote: post #298

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Facebook came out with the Oculus Quest last year which is hugely innovative.

You could say that evolved out of the "buying" era as the above commenter said, as Oculus was an acquisition.

Oculus Quest was developed by Facebook, not Oculus.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by subpixel » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

Jimjamb98 wrote: post #267

subpixel wrote: post #112

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I recently got back onto Instagram for family photos and I still have no idea, or real interest in learning, what stories are. I'm too busy fuming at the avalanche of sponsored posts. It's an utter train wreck.

Stories are simply for things you want to be temporarily visible instead of permanently visible to your followers.

I don’t know what that means, how that works, or what to make of what I see when I click a story - so I never do.

Re: Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

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Post by ffpip » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #343

OzzyB wrote: post #9

Quoting from the excellent blog post[1] submitted here yesterday[0] that stole my morning workout time: " Instagram is some strange hybrid mix of social and interest graph, and now it’s also a jumble of formats, with a Stories feed relegated to a top bar in the app while the more stagnant and less active original feed continues to run vertically as the default. Messaging is pushed to a separate pane and also served b…

> Messaging is pushed to a separate pane and also served by a separate app. Wait, there's a separate app for IG messages? For iOS? Link? I can't find _any_ references to it.

Yes there is one for close friends. It's called Threads.

You can add anyone to your close friends list. So add anyone you like to chat to. If you want a group to appear in Threads, add all the people in the group to threads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-from-instagram/id14738...