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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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An opinon on what the OP of the comment thinks about it? That's the joy of HN. You get the folks who are bullish on a 'new' idea, and those who aren't.
There's no explanation about why the OP thinks the way he does. If there was some interesting commentary or question, that would be worth reading about.
Public 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.
In e.g. The Netherlands anything from your neighborhood-watch to parents-info, or anything related to school, via business-groups, your bachelors party, to the weekly scissors-collectors-club-coffee-meet . All of these organize, inform, discuss, on WhatsApp.
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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.
It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communities that form around them and their niche. The people who consume content within a niche tend to be very likeminded and often times quite willing to rally behind and support the bastions propelling the niches that they identify with. Even for smaller creators, I've seen time and time again that all you need is one or two highly dedicated and e…
I am on the lookout to find how the online thing looks like, and honestly, it always comes back to a facebook group. I hate facebook. But it is the option with the least friction, for now.
Every other option, adds friction. From single signups to downloading mobile apps.
I haven't checked sociables yet (gonna, as soon as I hit reply), but I'm letting you know of my thoughts because it's a problem addressed to everyone.
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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.
You're getting sidetracked by the word "private" instead of looking at the contextual meaning of the conversation people are having:
When grandparent poster (asim) wrote: >"and now people need to go back to something more real and private."
asim meant "private"=="less-visible-more-intimate-group".
You're talking about "private"=="walled-garden".
The threeseed's reply of "So I think public networks still seem far from dead" is responding to asim's usage of "private" and not yours.
I want to offer a counterpoint to the current consensus in the comments from (my) real-world interactions. In many countries outside of US, Twitter is occupied by a minority audience which is usually in its own bubble. Instagram is much more popular especially in Millenials who are now in the age group where they start to be more politically active and less motivated by the "pure entertainement" side of the social me…
Instagram is the public/open network. Share pictures and reels with whoever wants to see them. Groups fits into that more as you rarely have a group among your own friend set, but rather among a group of random individuals with similar interests. Meta has it upside down.
I'm sure it won't be a horrible privacy-violating, mental illness-inducing mess. Meta would never do that.
> The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon. This can be interesting.
I am waiting for the day they integrate something like this in whatsapp. Welcome to your new social media app 2bn users. Would be the first social media account my parents have
This have the potential to do it well for Instagrammer that wants a new medium but in a platform that is not for shitposting and memes. However when you think about it, it's just Facebook all over again :D