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Google is dead. Where do we go now?

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Post by dewarrn1 »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #316
tsunamifury wrote: post #259

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As someone who leads large parts of ad tech for TikTok and worked at Google for 10 years, it’s the K shaped economy that is pressing SMBs out. Pure and simple Everyone can make up some complex theories but I see it in the numbers every day. Spend distribution is now k shaped and SMBs simply can’t compete at top end performance levels.

This seems one of the more important comments here - a K shaped economy (Rich get richer up the rising arm of the K and the rest of us are on the down arm) dominates everything (ie asset price inflation means if you had assets in 2020 you probably still do else good luck) and this just is one of many ways the playing field has tilted towards the richest. And it is always a choice - we choose platforms and regulations…

Presumably with apologies to Steinbeck: “Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.”

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Post by dkarbayev »

cookiengineer wrote: post #278
nostrademons wrote: post #160

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In my anecdotal experience, it's moved to private, trust-based channels: iMessage, WhatsApp, email, face-to-face interactions. Our 30-year bender of putting our lives online and blurring the public and the private has finally ended: people don't want to be online, don't trust social media, don't really trust any media, and are living simple local lives with a small circle of friends that they get together with regula…

I had a very interesting discussion with a friend today, where I was talking to her about the /r/golang thread about Rob Pike's comments to OpenAI and how the thread was full of bots talking with other bots. No idea why the density of bots was so high in that thread, it was kind of absurd to see. Then she said: "I know nobody that comments on online forums. Nobody would ever comment to strangers on the internet. It's…

Most of the internet users are passive content consumers, and it’s been the case since a long time ago. There's a post about it from 2019:

https://bewilderbeast.org/2019/08/16/most-of-what-you-read-o...

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Post by catlikesshrimp »

czottmann wrote: post #212

Hugged to death right now, therefore: https://web.archive.org/web/20251229204141/https://www.circu...

His actual entertaiment bussiness is down,

https://bigtop.co.za/

They are a circus for hire (events) https://web.archive.org/web/20250424004511/https://bigtop.co...

Located in Durban, South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban

He got too much exposure by stating Adworks no longer works?

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Post by [deleted] »

bookofjoe wrote: post #251
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #241

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Discord is really where it is at these days. Discord servers with 50-100 people form the new social fabric of the internet where real community lies. In theory Reddit was supposed to be this but 1. Reddit communities tend to get too large 2. Subreddits overflow into each other too much through cross posting and brigading 3. Post history being public meant that you could get banned/brigaded for your comments on a tota…

99% of the population hasn't a clue what Discord is/does

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Post by rootusrootus »

bookofjoe wrote: post #251
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #241

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Discord is really where it is at these days. Discord servers with 50-100 people form the new social fabric of the internet where real community lies. In theory Reddit was supposed to be this but 1. Reddit communities tend to get too large 2. Subreddits overflow into each other too much through cross posting and brigading 3. Post history being public meant that you could get banned/brigaded for your comments on a tota…

99% of the population hasn't a clue what Discord is/does

As someone with two teenage kids, I would wager that this is highly age-dependent, and that it is exactly reversed the younger you go. My guess is 99% of the under-25 population uses Discord daily and has never had a Facebook account.

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Post by JohnnyMarcone »

tomjuggler wrote: post #202
yanslookup wrote: post #118

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Occasionally post reddit content or occasionally post reddit ads?

content, in r/Durban - gets a few views for personal, I'm on lemmy now

How are you finding lemmy community compared to reddit?

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Post by smileson2 »

criddell wrote: post #389
mcphage wrote: post #162

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> the world is not ready for what advertising geniuses are cooking up as we speak. Advertising directed towards AI models, at the very least. If you can get into ChatGPT's weights that McDonalds is the cheapest and tastiest hamburger, how many millions of people would ChatGPT tell that to?

If ChatGPT told you to go to McDonald’s, would you?

yeah, it's always a good time for a egg mcmuffin

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Post by arccy »

consumer451 wrote: post #302
consumer451 wrote: post #269

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I am fairly confident that the answer is that most people vote based on the title/headline without ever clicking through. I am likely guilty of this as well sometimes. It takes discipline to avoid this behaviour. > We find that most users do not read the article that they vote on, and that, in total, 73% of posts were rated (i.e., upvoted or downvoted) without first viewing the content. [0] In this case, my guess is…

meta comment separated for its own discussion I tried to find that paper via google search first, and I failed after 3 different searches. I then opened my not-important-stuff LLM, chatgpt.com, and found it in 3 interactions, where in the 3rd I made it use search. Chatbots with search are just so good at "on the tip of my tongue" type things. Google is in such a weird position because of their bread and butter legacy…

then you have people complaining that search is no longer a keyword match when people claim to know exactly what they want...
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