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Post by datavirtue »

hackernewds wrote: post #438
starfallg wrote: post #391

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The issues is that until the delivery business model runs into a brick wall (which IMO is inevitable), we'll see this continue. It's hard to blame them because being slow to disruption can be fatal to a business. It's just hard to tell at the beginning which disruptive ideas will end up taking over, and which ones end up as duds.

Curious why you think it is inevitable? The convenience of having the whole city available for delivery for consumers, and for restaurants to have access to a broad base of on-demand drivers and these customers, seems like an intractable modern day invention.

It's not. This was working in Columbus Ohio since at least the 1990s...and probably elsewhere and for longer. Just didn't have an app.

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Post by bongoman37 »

SrslyJosh wrote: post #6

Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

I think Facebook user numbers could drop just as fast as they rose. The network effects that drive a social network to add members could operate in reverse as well when higher engagement users drop and the remaining users either leave or become dormant.

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Post by aceazzameen »

klodolph wrote: post #439
mjhagen wrote: post #332

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And this is was what people warned us about when FB became the new single destination. It became its own walled off version of the web.

I think it's nice. It provides some additional accountability that Craigslist doesn't provide. I don't know what you mean by "walled-of version of the web". At least, I don't know what kind of warning you are talking about, with respect to Facebook Marketplace.

I think they mean Facebook is the new AOL where it has it's own content (Marketplace) that non-users can't access. While Craigslist is available to anyone on the web.

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Sorry, it wasn't and isn't a "media narrative" that is relevant here. Neither is there anything related to the trope of the "MSM" or power of the FAANGS. There was obvious collusion and conspiracy to cause the properly cast and certified electoral college votes to be questioned. There was also obvious collusion and conspiracy to a) riot, and b) attempt to occupy the Capitol, and c) stop the actual process of counting…

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Post by simongray »

froidpink wrote: post #508
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> one day they will simply slink away in the middle of the night leaving several thousand mine workers unemployed and holding the bag. When that day comes, the moment Facebook and Meta are declared dead I will go out, order the most expensive bottle of champagne, and celebrate all night. Future generations of an advanced technological society will look back in horror and disbelief that a small cadre of privateers wer…

Social Media is not going away anytime soon. It'll just take a different form. Just look at TikTok

Why do you consider TikTok to be social media? Isn't it just videos shot in a smartphone aspect ratio + comments and a clever discovery algorithm? Is YouTube also social media?

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Post by DrBazza »

SrslyJosh wrote: post #6

Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/ I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs. Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to t…

I'm now down to Facebook on my phone only, and it gets checked once or twice a day, and the first N posts are all "not friends" - group posts, ads, surveys.

There's hardly any of my friends left actively using it.

All my friends are now in fb messenger groups, whatsapp groups, discord, and so on.

Until they get "monetized", then we'll be off to somewhere else I suppose.

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Post by Kye »

rob74 wrote: post #362
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #355

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Really short term thinking if that's true. DoorDash/UberEats might not be around forever. Its also not clear whether people will order the same amounts if an actual recession rolls around. By prioritizing DoorDash over in-store customers, you're just destroying your long-term value prop and brand.

Plus there's one small detail: you can still enjoy e.g. a pizza that's not hot anymore; other food (Indian, Chinese, ...) can mostly be kept hot without losing its quality. With burgers and fries (especially McDonalds), you have to eat them hot, and trying to keep them warm during delivery results in a soggy mess that's not enjoyable at all anymore IMHO.

I used to think this with burgers until I found the secret to reheating a fast food burger:

1: set the veggies aside

2: put the whole burger in the microwave upside-down for half the time it takes to reheat (usually 30 seconds for this step if cold from the fridge)

3: flip it and nuke it the rest of the time

4: restore veggies to rightful place

I was amazed the first time I did this and had a 100% sog-free bun. The burger was indistinguishable from fresh. I don't know exactly what's going on, or what's different from just nuking it all the way on one side, but it works.

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Post by hestefisk »

FWIW, I deleted my Facebook account years ago and never looked back. I’m not on Twitter, TikTok, instagram, or Snapchat. I only maintain presence on LinkedIn due to work (staying in touch with clients), painful as it it. Perhaps there is white space for a new generation of social networks, which are not privacy hoarding ad machines?
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