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It failed miserably because of poor UX, not business model. Social media conglomerates capitalize on integrated UX and use the power of it to fuel their busines
by ivan_gammel 3y ago
It failed miserably because of poor UX, not business model. Social media conglomerates capitalize on integrated UX and use the power of it to fuel their business models. They do not really lock in their customers the way SaaS vendors do: before I left social media, I had at least 3 or 4 replicas of my social graph, overlapping by at least 80%. Users can move between platforms if there’s any value in it.
- sham1 3y agoThere's nothing in here that would technically preclude one from building a nice UI around this and make this have a nice UX where most people wouldn't even need to know that any given protocol like this is being used. The social media conglomerates would have been able to figure it out instead of building their own proprietary systems for this stuff, if they had wanted to. But, well, they didn't want to.
- ivan_gammel 3y ago> There's nothing in here that would technically preclude one from building a nice UI around this and make this have a nice UX If it were so easy, we would see it already - there’s sufficient demand for this kind of solution. Engineers and STEM graduates in general often fail to understand that technology isn’t always the main constraint. There are harder problems in the world to solve, that actually define the experience. It’s people, it’s regulations and liabilities, it’s financial planning and outcomes etc etc. There exists a technology for many wonderful things, yet we don’t see them and it is not corporations to blame.