Instagram Is Over
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Instagram Is Over
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#2I wonder if there’s a market for small app, limited in scope, knock off of the original Instagram. $1/month.
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#3Social products all have a lifetime value and it’s incredibly short. The same thing will also happen to TikTok one day. I suspect we will learn in the coming decades that social media companies are very profitable in the short term, but not so in the long term, say 20 years, unless the keep introducing new viral social products.
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#4I wonder if there’s a market for small app, limited in scope, knock off of the original Instagram. $1/month.
I’m sure there’s many but in the world of social media, content is key and users are what make that happen.
I tried using Peer Tube recently, felt like I was on 2005 YouTube...absolute no man’s land
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#6I don't know if IG is dead, but that Reels nonsense was an absolute fiasco. They kept showing me reels that were nonsensical and were only designed to lead engagement stats from questions of "what is the person trying to do here". Not to mention, the comments on many of these useless vids were always in Turkish. I don't speak Turkish, I've never been to Turkey, yet comments on videos were always in Turkish.
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#7I wonder if there’s a market for small app, limited in scope, knock off of the original Instagram. $1/month.
There are reasons why IG has 2B people, part of which is not charging $1/month.
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#8I don't know if IG is dead, but that Reels nonsense was an absolute fiasco. They kept showing me reels that were nonsensical and were only designed to lead engagement stats from questions of "what is the person trying to do here". Not to mention, the comments on many of these useless vids were always in Turkish. I don't speak Turkish, I've never been to Turkey, yet comments on videos were always in Turkish.
I know plenty of friends who can spend hours on reels everyday, my SO is an example, but most of my female friends are the same.
I understand that modern IG may not be the greatest, but engagement wise their choices, at least for the 25+ tier, have paid off imho.
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#9I hope not. I use it as a way to save my moments with my family, in the expectation that It will survive some good years, and therefore my kids can then watch the pics, videos, comments and get a better picture (pun intended) of the context of the photos. Much better than have it in a disk (if its survive) or printed.
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#10It's because these apps are longer social in the original sense of social media. Most of my family's sharing of what would have been Instagram or Facebook posts are now in a WhatsApp group I admin. Sure I would have loved to get everyone onto Signal instead but the end result has been much better experience for us.