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Twitter doesn't use aws for anything important... Lol people's just say anything online
Replace AWS with whatever cloud provider they use...
they dont use a cloud provider...
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#522I tried it again today. The feed seemed improved (people I follow) for five minutes, then it was pure garbage again (random awful accounts I don’t follow).
I am not worried about Facebook’s AI anymore, it’s clear they can't infer anything about me even after I blocked 100+ accounts.
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#523I don't think launching an MVP (which this was) works when there is such a large established monopoly your trying to disrupt. Especially as the MVP offers nothing new?
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But the west already has iOS and Android. A super app is just a wannabe OS.
A super app presumably has a dedicated product manager with some sort of vision and control of what goes into what features are available. You could hardly say the same of iOS+AppStore or Android+Playstore. Note that I'm not the least bit convinced we would benefit from a super app, but WeChat seems to fill a need for however many millions of users it has.
Could you elaborate on that? It sounds like you’re saying that Google and Apple have no product management and they’re just shipping random features every year, but that sounds bonkers so I must be misunderstanding.
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#525It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…
You make a good point and exactly why I would never in a million years sign into reddit with my Gmail account. I fear a cross platform ban somehow even if that is not how it works. My last account was banned for merely expressing my opinion and not doing so in an combative or nasty way just didn’t agree with the narrative and next thing I know I was permabanned.
…my last account was banned for merely expressing my opinion…
Nebulous anecdotes such as this always made him curious: opinion regarding what, precisely? “David Lane’s 14 words and 88 precepts, perhaps?” — he wondered to himself, unable to divert his eyes from their username.
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#526I would not expect tech writers to understand retention rates of mobile apps, but you can search your way to some [meh] data pretty quickly. This is lazy reporting. https://www.statista.com/statistics/259329/ios-and-android-a...
> why didn’t those idiots use this unverifiable data I disapprove of?
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Replace AWS with whatever cloud provider they use...
they dont use a cloud provider...
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google
While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.
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journalists leaving twitter is an improvement.
Care to expound on that? Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Without journalists, it's just randos and bots shit-posting their hot takes.
They bring credibility to stuff they just read on twitter.
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> Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Not at all. "Journalists" are as biased as they come. They'll sing any tune prescribed by the hand that feeds them. That hand is most often advertisers but may also be governments. Chances are the articles they produce are actually hidden advertisements or propaganda. How could anyone with such massive conflicts of interest bring credibi…
> What makes you think these "journalists" aren't just randoms themselves? They're not really any better than any person on this site. It's pretty ridiculous to compare someone who has a university degree, years of training and experience, professional qualifications, and maybe a strong reputation, with a "random" posting on an internet forum.
In science we don't go by authority. Just because you won a nobel prize, it doesn't mean that your theories should not be tested.
A random university degree is a much lower barrier, and just FYI it isn't required to be a journalist.
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That mostly only makes the number of users to fall if new people stop coming at some point. To some non-stablished service, people stopping to come is death.
People do in fact stop coming at some point. As an example, Facebook (the site, distinguished from other aquisitions) has seen stagnant or falling usage in certain markets, notably the US and EU, as of about 5--6 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16956818/facebook-q4-2017... > http://www.businessinsider.sg/facebook-hits-wall-usage-falls... >
So, did the number of active Facebook users ever go down before it was a dominant player on social networks? Or are you claiming that Threads is ok because it's as big as it is ever going to be and it is all downwards from now on?
What part of my comment exactly is wrong?