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Every walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrati
by dariusj18 4y ago
Every walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrations and openness.
- quickthrower2 4y agoNot necessarily just the company’s profit motive. Individual careers require this sort of stuff to be done.
- adamrezich 4y agoexactly—why is Newsletters still a thing if they're working on Notes now? shouldn't those two be one and the same? walled gardens planting their own flowers is unsurprising at this point, but when one goes from planting its own flowers to planting competing plants in the same space...
- holler 4y agoAgree, but I don't think it necessarily has to be that way. All of these social sites have a core competency/use case, but once they start tacking on features as an effect of the profit motive, it starts to dilute the experience. Working on my own site and planning to keep it strictly focused on the core value prop.