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by alex1138 1y ago
I think it should also be pointed out that for all of the "Facebook is free, you are the product" and that maybe they should charge, Whatsapp had an existing monetization model Zuckerberg is ruthless and cutthroat and Whatsapp was
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by alex1138 1y ago
'Laughed at', but one of the things that's probably very likely also true is 'Now a prime target for antitrust violations' especially Whatsapp Acquisitions do happen but it's telling when the people whose compa
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by alex1138 1y ago
Ok so this comment section is 'appropriately' (really, guys? Listen to Mozilla) derisive Bear in mind Meta/Facebook/Zuckerbook is the same company that's always employed dark patterns to get you to unwittingly share
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by alex1138 1y ago
I am getting really tired of HN whataboutism (not exactly whataboutism in this case but close) as in the GP comment
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I think "Kagi Code" or whatever it's called is using Claude
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by alex1138 1y ago
You know I understand this is HN so I might get downvoted for saying this (with no explanation) but we should start enforcing computer crimes when corporations do it If Microsoft decides spying on you and inflicting DRM or whatever or any o
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by alex1138 1y ago
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...
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BuyMeACountry
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by alex1138 1y ago
It's kind of interesting how some books, compared to others, become classics Whether it's in the lifetime of the author or not (usually not) in which it's appreciated, a hypothetical reviewer of books must have had to drudge
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by alex1138 1y ago
The fact that SO much is only discovered after the fact by asking it "Are you sure?" is just insane There has to be some kind of recursive error checking thing, or something
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They needed to have proper defaults and they needed to let their social network grow organically and they needed to have an actual sane, proper, feed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 There's a reason every
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by alex1138 1y ago
Threads had "Oh my god, so many people are using it" Beyond the fact it's possible that they were counting Instagram users in those metrics, yeah, people are going to sign up to try the new thing But it's what you came t
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by alex1138 1y ago
One thing that made Youtube work well in its early days was a robust and interesting recommendations system (for those who are old, like me). There was also a robust Trending section They chipped away and chipped away at the usefulness of Y
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Every single one of my prompts would be "Are you suuuuuuure you're not hallucinating that?"
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by alex1138 2y ago
Look - he hasn't made any of his acquisitions any better and Whatsapp especially is a clear slam dunk antitrust case I'm less interested in some of the political hatchet jobs people do against his company (namely Facebook) but his
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by alex1138 2y ago
I just remember Zuck's comments about AI and how the idea of it dooming our species is a bit silly, etc This is the wrong approach to take. At minimum you have to say things like "well yes we're always on the lookout for this
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It's almost like once you lose Systrom/Krieger it all goes to shit (The same people Zuckerberg was accused of bullying out of the company)
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People want connection too and Facebook won't give it to them Maybe the reason people were leaving for TT is they were doing this kind of thing for years already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
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by alex1138 2y ago
Which is a horrible way to do it Ok, let's say you're my friend on Facebook. I care about you (I haven't explicitly unfollowed you) enough that I want you in my feed Do I now click Like on every post you make? Is that how I g
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by alex1138 2y ago
And that's fine except people have missed seriously important life updates because of selective post non-showing Facebook already had people up in arms when the feed was first introduced (probably because Zuckerberg seemingly doesn&#x2
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by alex1138 2y ago
Honestly it feels like a hostage situation Like some engineer in the company begged Mark like, "Please, people are going to drop your product completely unless you give them some control" (remember Top Stories vs Most Recent?) And
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by alex1138 2y ago
The fact that the old system would ban people for completely absurd reasons (including covid "misinformation" that all turned out to be true, but not exclusively that) and one thing Musk did do is put a stop to some of that I&#x27
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by alex1138 2y ago
Reddit can be astroturfed to hell, I don't trust it. Mods are shared across subreddits, they ban you for unjustified reasons, as does the site in general
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by alex1138 2y ago
I've seen too much from the last few years (covid, mostly, but other things) to take much stock in what people are commonly referring to as misinformation But yeah, I don't like what they do competition wise (Whatsapp seems like c
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by alex1138 2y ago
ITT: people deriding social media as a concept while also correctly pointing out the feeds on Zuckerberg owned products completely suck People have been demanding 'please just let me see what my friends post' for YEARS It's (
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by alex1138 2y ago
I don't know whether they are a monopoly but I would like them to fix several things 1) Fix your search engine. Stop ignoring keywords, your product as it is currently sucks 2) Stop antagonizing people with user hostile actions in Chro
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by alex1138 2y ago
The people/person who flagged my reply: care to elaborate? It's someone from industry. She's not wrong, you are
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by alex1138 2y ago
Also I think if you sign up for Instagram you get Threads lol Nice account you got there, would be a shame if you deleted Threads and also deletes your Insta
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I take one thing out of the Musk acquisition that goes beyond just being buying a product, which is that there was a real problem under Jack Dorsey that they were banning people for explicitly ideological reasons, significantly for covid &q
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by alex1138 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know Facebook (and probably also Instagram) degrades photo quality by a lot, something Flickr doesn't do That plus scary TOS changes Instagram did immediately after acquisition

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