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I said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is a huge opportunity for Facebook. They sort of tried to do Reddit in the past and ended up with shitty Facebook

by baby 3y ago

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is a huge opportunity for Facebook. They sort of tried to do Reddit in the past and ended up with shitty Facebook groups. If I were them, I would rush to add some reddit features to Facebook group (reddit-like threads, upvotes/downvotes) or try to launch something new that’s more like reddit on top of the facebook/insta social graph. Just call it “Groups”

kramerger 3y ago
Facebook? I'm all in favour of bringing back G+
- baby 3y ago
  people who say that have clearly not used G+ x)
bmarquez 3y ago
It would be interesting to see Facebook Groups divorce from Facebook itself. Maybe allow people to login using an Instagram or Whatsapp identity, or better yet an independent login. I don't really want my group activity to be linked to my Facebook identity for tracking/advertising purposes.
- jacooper 3y ago
  An Instagram account is as bad as a Facebook account, if not worse.
  - bmarquez 3y ago
    How is it worse? From a privacy perspective they're both terrible and the data flows to the same Meta servers, but Facebook demands you use your real name (and demands photo ID if it thinks it's fake) while Instagram doesn't care.
starik36 3y ago
> shitty Facebook groups Are you serious? That is the most useful and well done function of Facebook! The accounts are all mostly real names so there is much less toxicity. Instead you get enthusiasts around a topic that can discuss issues in a constructive manner - or at least more constructive than Reddit.
- baby 3y ago
  I just want the nested conversations of reddit, it's not complicated :(
willmeyers 3y ago
Meta's already launched channels for Whatsapp and planning on doing a similar rollout for Insta. Definitely going to shake things up https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-its-channels-feature-for-broadcasting-messages-globally/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-i...
- jacooper 3y ago
  Channels are more of a telegram thing though
paulmd 3y ago
nah, the real opportunity is for discord. why you guys think they're doing the unique usernames? because reddit with non-unique usernames would suck. everyone has been talking about how much discord is a blackhole for content and it's unsearchable etc. And that's really fine for the chat side of things, but people hammering it into being a wiki/documentation/etc is a sign that there's a product need not being met. Discord almost certainly knows this, but, non-unique usernames for a global community doesn't work.

by baby 3y ago

kramerger 3y ago

Facebook? I'm all in favour of bringing back G+

baby 3y ago
people who say that have clearly not used G+ x)

bmarquez 3y ago

It would be interesting to see Facebook Groups divorce from Facebook itself. Maybe allow people to login using an Instagram or Whatsapp identity, or better yet an independent login. I don't really want my group activity to be linked to my Facebook identity for tracking/advertising purposes.

jacooper 3y ago
An Instagram account is as bad as a Facebook account, if not worse.
- bmarquez 3y ago
  How is it worse? From a privacy perspective they're both terrible and the data flows to the same Meta servers, but Facebook demands you use your real name (and demands photo ID if it thinks it's fake) while Instagram doesn't care.

starik36 3y ago

> shitty Facebook groups Are you serious? That is the most useful and well done function of Facebook! The accounts are all mostly real names so there is much less toxicity. Instead you get enthusiasts around a topic that can discuss issues in a constructive manner - or at least more constructive than Reddit.

baby 3y ago
I just want the nested conversations of reddit, it's not complicated :(

willmeyers 3y ago

Meta's already launched channels for Whatsapp and planning on doing a similar rollout for Insta. Definitely going to shake things up https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-its-channels-feature-for-broadcasting-messages-globally/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/instagram-is-rolling-out-i...

jacooper 3y ago
Channels are more of a telegram thing though

paulmd 3y ago

nah, the real opportunity is for discord. why you guys think they're doing the unique usernames? because reddit with non-unique usernames would suck. everyone has been talking about how much discord is a blackhole for content and it's unsearchable etc. And that's really fine for the chat side of things, but people hammering it into being a wiki/documentation/etc is a sign that there's a product need not being met. Discord almost certainly knows this, but, non-unique usernames for a global community doesn't work.