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The pushback is minimal. A lot of the pushback possibly includes people that are going to be upset by many things. Specific Reddit communities and Hacker News a
by skinnymuch 6y ago
The pushback is minimal. A lot of the pushback possibly includes people that are going to be upset by many things. Specific Reddit communities and Hacker News are good examples of that. If these demographics are unlikely to be happy with your social product’s privacy and dark or non dark patterns, catering to them makes no sense.
I don’t know any one outside some geeky sites and only one person personally who cares about any of this. Some do say lame casually. But it’s not going to be a deciding factor for using the app.
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To add on to the whims of the geeky communities. Some companies escape it more than others. Airbnb doesn’t get much shit for spamming Craigslist people in early days. Compared to the negative talk of Uber, Facebook, etc, they also get no where near any criticism for the way they incentivize negative aspects of their platform.
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All of this to say - there’s no real downside if money and power is the primary goal.
- forgotmypw17 6y ago>I don’t know any one outside some geeky sites and only one person personally who cares about any of this. Some do say lame casually. But it’s not going to be a deciding factor for using the app. My experience is completely different from yours. Out of the dozens of people I've spoken with about this stuff, I can't remember a SINGLE PERSON who didn't express dissatisfaction with at least one of: lack of privacy and potential willy-nilly snooping by CompanyX employee; arbitrary blocking and post removal without good cause; bad interface design; low quality of content. I don't go fishing for it either, it just happens in conversation, although I sometimes am the first to broach the subject of social networks.
- skinnymuch 6y agoSorry, I was exaggerating and didn't make it clear what I meant. Yes people care. A lot of people will especially say something or another. Most won't actually not connect to Clubhouse with their contacts though. So I see the same dissatisfaction. I find that to be closer to slacktivism level of caring for most people though. If they stop using an app or don't use it from the get go for X reason, it usually doesn't align with how they're using other apps. So technically they did not use something because of the dissatisfaction you described. However, they aren't actually applying that even remotely consistently.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoI think it is just habit and culture, and both can change very quickly. There are many examples throughout history, e.g. civil rights movement.