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> because Uber are incentivised to make it easy Yep you nailed it with that, however what do you think incentivizing success on "social networking, communicati
by whywhywhywhy 3y ago
> because Uber are incentivised to make it easy
Yep you nailed it with that, however what do you think incentivizing success on "social networking, communication" looks like? Because it looks a lot like finding ways to increase engagement and scrolling.
I left out federation because normal people don't even know what it is and if they did they wouldn't care about it.
- danpalmer 3y agoI don't know exactly what success looks like in social networking and comms. I suspect it looks a lot less like Facebook/Instagram, and a lot more like WhatsApp/Telegram, anecdotally, I enjoy chatting with friends and family on WhatsApp because the conversation is the whole product. I enjoyed Path too when it was around, although never got enough of my family on it for it to properly stick. The problem with social networking is that the only viable business model so far has been ads, and without the high-intent you get from (e.g.) search engines, you have to instead optimised for engagement and keeping people around to make it up in volume of ad delivery. At least with services the revenue isn't ads based, or is less so. There are some things in the middle like Netflix/Spotify who want you to consume more, and have some ads, but I suspect most people don't want to reduce their music listening, and are happy enough with the amount of TV they watch (at least relative to social networking where I think it's very common for people to want to consume less).