The people who care about decentralization and like Meta/Facebook are two separate circles, but its interesting that they're supposedly building on ActivityPub.
Like how they built their chat on XMPP and then rugpulled it away?
Meta preps new social app
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#42Public 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.
From Facebook's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results:
DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year.
So I think public networks still seem far from dead.
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#43Public 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.
From Facebook's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results: DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year. So I think public networks still seem far from dead.
Facebook is a private network.
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#44Public 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.
From Facebook's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results: DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year. So I think public networks still seem far from dead.
You can't count DAU as an accurate measurement when you're subsidizing half the number with carrier deals.
For hundreds of millions in other countries, FB is the internet because it's cheaper than...the internet.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what is that model?
Build a super app that contains an in-house variant of almost everything that becomes popular. WeChat for example.
This isn't the model I'm referring to. The new generation of Chinese software companies are more like the ByteDance model.
https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-bytedance-became-the-worlds-most...
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#46Public 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.
Public networks are a lot more hostile than we realize while we have moderation armies at work. That may not be a sustainable model. I think the way forward is building the right tools to help communities self-manage. It will be more like Discord and less like Twitter.
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#47Public 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.
Aren’t hacker news comments public social network?
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#48So 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?
They'll have a gopher clone next.
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#49I 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.
I think it makes a lot of sense to try this now and that it could be a good platform to push the protocol. My hunch is that this will help mastodon, and maybe hurt twitter's ad revenue if not their user count. A lot of hate for meta properties, but tying it into meta is a network effect mastodon doesn't have, but will tangentially now. I feel like if this goes well, it'll be good for most of the other social networks.
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#50It isn't a Twitter clone built for the sake of it.
This is Meta wanting data for its LLMs aware of the latest trends and news-worthy events as they happen. Probably generate ad videos and banners on-the-fly, even?