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Instagram turned into being what Facebook was supposed to be.

• umeshunni 4y ago
  and now it's moving away from that and pushing more suggested content. The death spiral is: 1. Show friends content to attract users 2. Realize that friends don't product enough content to increase engagement. 3. Start introducing suggested content to increase engagement 4. Friend stop producing content since their content is deprioritized and not getting engagement 5. Now your feed is full of suggested content and isn't interesting any more 6. You leave and find another platform
  • edgyquant 4y ago
    Almost like building a business around “engagement” is a model that leads to a death spiral. Social media sites are basically giant MLM schemes that sell the idea that become real companies before the scheme runs out.
    • languageserver 4y ago
      ahhh,,... I would say billions in revenue makes it anything but. A short lived idea, maybe, a novelty, maybe
      • edgyquant 4y ago
        Death spiral = short lived MLMs make billions, but they are still MLMs.
    • robocat 4y ago
      > “engagement” is a model that leads to a death spiral Good article on that point: https://rosie.land/posts/stop-measuring-community-engagement/ https://rosie.land/posts/stop-measuring-community-engagement...
  • _dain_ 4y ago
    Reminds me of Gresham's Law[1]: "Bad Money Drives Out Good". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law