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Post by somsak2 »

waboremo wrote: post #220
czbond wrote: post #175

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Twitter's barrier wasn't that it was technically hard - it was that it was free and had critical mass. There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views

Musk is the least of my concerns, I can ignore his account if I cared that much. I can't really ignore that a lot of higher quality accounts have been interacting less because Twitter has become a technical mess, fucking up their timelines and notifications. This sort of loss is quiet, and slow. You only really notice it when it's too late, when your feed is nothing but mindless ads and random accounts you never foll…

> higher quality accounts have been interacting less

any source / concrete examples of this? I've asked for this before but all I ever hear are general, sweeping claims without any actual data.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by cmh89 »

lovvtide wrote: post #217
cmh89 wrote: post #61

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There isn't a huge amount of demand for 'censorship resistance' and 'free speech' in social networks. People want enjoyable communities far more than they want the 'freedom' to spam the n-word.

On the contrary, I think there is a huge demand. I can find enjoyable community offline. Speaking for myself, freedom from censorship is in fact the main thing I want in a social network. Your values might differ.

I think you're missing the point. I understand that you value that. There is no question of that.

The majority of people however don't value it or actively desire it because no wants to live in a pigsty. There is a reason apps like Truth Social don't take off, and that 4chan never gained the mainstream popularity of other social sites.

There have been multiple reddit clones, multiple twitter clones, multiple social media clones all based on the false pretense that there is demand for a freeze peach social site, and they all fall flat. Mastodon is doing better than most and its gaining users because of Twitter catering to the alt-right and refusing to censor offensive or dangerous speech.

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Post by alephnerd »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #470
mikpanko wrote: post #460

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In my experience the reality is much more nuanced: - VCs don’t want founders to own 0% of their company because founders need to be motivated to work hard to make it a success - % of dilution usually goes down very significantly over funding rounds - there is significant competition between VCs to fund good startups these days, which can translate to founder leverage - there are early-stage VCs these days, which don’…

> there are early-stage VCs these days, which don’t pressure founders for quick growth That's really interesting. Do you know how they make that work, exactly? I feel like that's naturally opposed to the standard incentive structures that VCs have with their LPs. They need to show results in O(years) so they can raise their next fund and keep the overall VC firm going over O(decades). That maps down straightforwardly…

Down the grapevine at least, a couple Micro VCs ik provide a pipeline for CorpDev teams at larger companies and early stage VCs (Series A-C check signers like Unusual Ventures) to choose pre-vetted companies. Mind you this seems to be more Enterprise/B2B Micro VC oriented.

If the startup is showing good growth metrics, they'd point them to friends at later stage funds. If they aren't, they'd give intros and help get the startup aquihired.

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Post by gremlinsinc »

nr2x wrote: post #449
mgfist wrote: post #427

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> Kodak saw a train coming, did a study that told them that they had to do something, but then sat on the tracks. Replace "Kodak" with "Google" and that's the exact impression I get from friends who work there

I just resigned from Google. There’s no future with current leadership. I was a at high level (6), with an incredibly broad scope of responsibility, making an absurd amount of money. But life is too short to spend my days propping up a dying monopoly when there’s bigger game to chase. It’s also institutionally arrogant, they really think they are the best, Jeff Dean and Urs are Gods, and no other company can do what…

Hey, myself and an ex-microsoft dev (like 2007-2008, not recent), with some VP experience have teamed up. We're working on memory solutions for AI, as well as creating better agents, workflows, etc... In the early days it'll mostly be a GUI over langchain/autogpt/babyAGI, eventually it might morph to creating our own in-house brain-like database, something beyond vectors (or built on top of them w/ a better ranking/indexing based on frequency/recency). Hit me up, if you'd consider partnering up.

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Post by PaulHoule »

blackshaw wrote: post #467
PaulHoule wrote: post #307

Substack really competes with creators leaving and setting up their own newsletter + payment gateway software. That’s like a $20,000 or so project from a web dev firm and for a creator who gets $200,000 a year from their newsletter it pays for itself in a year. The trouble is that substack makes almost all of its money from two handfuls of users who make more than that so if substack loses those creators it is left w…

$20,000? I could code up a basic newsletter app in half a day's work, with payments handled by Stripe. If it's really possible to charge $20,000 for this service then please tell me where to find clients.

If I were doing it on my own account my estimate is close to yours. I have a cloud-native email newsletter system I built already, hooking up a payment gateway is routine, testing can be a bit of a hassle.

You could put a job like that up on a freelancer platform for a lot less money and you might get a good outcome or you might not.

My figure would assume there is a certain amount of arguing and barguing about requirements and that you’re dealing with somebody who will really come through, dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s and it is worth it if you are really making money on a newsletter.

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Post by gremlinsinc »

nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #275
markstos wrote: post #270

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I used Bing today. I’m denting.

I used bing chat (supposedly using gpt4) and it was far more annoying than openai free chatgpt (supposedly using gpt3.5) Somehow Microsoft found a way to make it worse?

I'd pay Microsoft monthly if they'd just give us untethered gpt-4 access, the same from the API, for those of us on the waitlist. I don't care if it wants to marry me, haha - I think being able to maybe full around with the settings could make it play nicer too.

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Post by ModernMech »

crysin wrote: post #395
ModernMech wrote: post #295

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> Musk is the least of my concerns, I can ignore his account if I cared that much. You really can't tho. Even if you block him, he'll still routinely show up in your timeline when people tweet a jpg of his tweets. Even if you somehow ignore all that, he'll still do random shit like change the Twitter logo to a dog to make sure you don't forget it's his playground, and you're just an NPC in his main character existenc…

That wasn't just any dog, that was doge the now mascot and namesake of the cryptocurrency dogecoin of which Musk has been known to pump with memes.

I should have known there was some shallow meaning behind it.

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Post by gremlinsinc »

mrkramer wrote: post #430
pantalaimon wrote: post #273

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If AI assisted search gets larger it might be to Google what Google was to AltaVista

Google controls distribution on Web through Google Chrome. How would AI assisted search even reach casual web users? Word of mouth is not enough.

I switched to edge on all my devices (in hopes of getting early access to Bing Chat), and honestly there's a lot more features and it performs better, so they won't get anything from me except whatever they can milk from gmail. I haven't searched using them in over a year, used to use Brave Search, and You.com for awhile.

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Post by ekianjo »

cfeduke wrote: post #269
jimsimmons wrote: post #221

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You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

> There’s no dent By the time there is a dent, it's too late.

By the time someone makes a bad argument its too late. We are beyond reason.
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