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Meta is only network effects. You could build that in a weekend, and so could I. or you could just fork Mastodon. What keeps people from leaving is that their f
by sometimelurker 5mo ago
Meta is only network effects. You could build that in a weekend, and so could I. or you could just fork Mastodon. What keeps people from leaving is that their friends are still on it: network effects
- lotsofpulp 5mo agoI feel like making a system capable of delivering the amount of data that WhatsApp/instagram deliver to billions of people worldwide would take more than a weekend.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoIf you have unlimited money to throw on infra it really is not difficult. You could literally implement the entire thing with S3 and Firebase.
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- wwweston 5mo agoThe curious thing about that is the transformation of the feed — it’s long since stopped being majority friend/follow posts and clearly is the algorithm picking whatever else it can come up with that will engage. This should mean personal network effects aren’t the moat anymore, for FB anyway.
- sometimelurker 5mo agopeople still send reels to each other. that's not a lot of connection but its addictive so they don't mind.
- mcmcmc 5mo agoIf people had to pay for it, most wouldn’t