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The Death of the Newsfeed (2018)
- imbnwa 6y agoThis article seems to point out why TikTok is widly successful: * Doesn't need your social graph (Facebook) or third-party discovery (Snapchat) to get you engaged and keep you enganged. * Your immediate audience are strangers doing the same thing as you are when you open the app, just add appropriate tags to your post and you're off to connecting with new people
- throwaway2245 6y ago> This article seems to point out why TikTok is widly successful: Yes! 2.5 years later it seems obvious, since TikTok solves this problem by avoiding a newsfeed focus and just showing people whatever makes them happy and keeps them engaged, no matter the source. The business motivation aligns much more closely with the user's motivation - as such, I trust TikTok to do content curation for me, whereas I hated whenever Facebook did the content curation and I felt just ok that Twitter let me do the content curation myself. It's a complete paradigm shift that is not fully imagined in the article, nor in HN's 2018 comments.
- SubiculumCode 6y agoDifferent types of social networks out there...but for the ones that are about real relationships, it is simple. I have a core set of friends I want to see everything they post (that is shared to me), and then I probably have another tier in which I am fine with some algorithm filtering to some degree, or placing in a larger newsfeed.
- willemlabu 6y agoPreviously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741237