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The weirdest thing of this era is that we don't see the big players (eg. Google) trying to take advantage of this situation and create an alternative.
by diegocg 3y ago
The weirdest thing of this era is that we don't see the big players (eg. Google) trying to take advantage of this situation and create an alternative.
- granshaw 3y agoGoogle and new products… Hahahahahhhaha
- dylan604 3y agoGoogs has showed us in the past it is unable to make a product that people want to use, and that they have no stomach for a slow grind to get a product to beat the establishment.
- anigbrowl 3y agoau contraire, they can definitely make products people like but then insist on either ruining them or shutting them down.
- dylan604 3y agofine, I'll rephrase: social products. Remember Google+? You and 10 other people do. Most people's memory of Google+ was how to avoid it after it became a mandatory thing for all gmail users, and then it was just gone. So yeah, people really liked that product
- cavisne 3y agoImo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube. Human generated content will become rare and more valuable, which is why the remaining non walled gardens (Reddit and Twitter) are quickly raising the drawbridge. Video will be the last medium to fall to AI generated content pretending to be human generated, and by cloning tiktok across to YouTube shorts they remove the barriers to entry for humans. Social media nowdays is not about friends, it’s about algorithms & creator monetization. YouTube is #1 on monetization by a huge margin. Any text based social media network will be absolutely overrun with LLMs.
- dylan604 3y ago> Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube. That's pretty damn sad. Limiting discussion to some video link is just not very social to me. Facebook was the best overall to me until they fucked it up. As a concept, it is the most diverse in allowing users to be social with the various types of posts. Sure, you can do videos, images, text only, but also the events, direct messaging, and other features that i don't really remember because i haven't been there in 10 years.
- skydhash 3y ago> Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube. Does it? I mostly use YouTube on my Apple TV, and the few times I open it elsewhere, I barely check the comments other than to check the audience reception. There are no conversations there.
- Freedom2 3y agoWhat big players are in a position to make an alternative, as well as be trusted enough that people will migrate to it? What an inane comment.
- petesergeant 3y agoMeta. I’d move to a Meta-run Twitter in a moment. I use FB Messenger and Instagram every day, and Zuck has so far resisted the pull to the far right that Elon and Jack have. I’d theoretically trust Apple/Google/MS to own the data and governance, but I don’t think any are capable of executing.
- strunz 3y agoI bet Digg said the same thing ca. 2010
- TechBro8615 3y agoMeta is reportedly working on some mastodon thing
- iguana_lawyer 3y agoA platform where everyone but nazis could say whatever they want (as long as it isn’t something a nazi would say) would be so popular.
- ericfrazier 3y agoI like the shadow ban system. Let users decide which other users get bannedthrough down or upvotes on comments.
- duped 3y agoThey can give it a catchy name too with their branding, because it adds so much value to their services. Maybe call it Google+?
- esskay 3y agoNobody would join anything social based run by Google anymore. For one thing we all know it would already be in the phase of being closed down, not to mention nobody (Even Google customers) trusts them.
- papito 3y agoImagine spending countless hours building up your follower base and accumulating the social media cachet, if you will, only to have Google shut it down in three years. Because that's exactly how that would go.
- ssnistfajen 3y agoInstagram has a Twitter-like product in the pipeline now. Google had their foray into social media more than a decade ago and it failed miserably. Starting from that point they've produced a continuous stream of failed products that never received enough support to last long enough to see viability.