love the giant brain super genius action of "maybe people want to read the things posted by the people they follow"
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Clayton Cubitt
Bluesky has 'em shook
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Weird how humans tend to behave.
too late
Balancing "user interest in talking with friends and corporate interest in prioritizing paid accounts & ad content without driving off the users who just want to talk with their friends" is tricky.
To be fair to them. It has worked. Hate it or not For You content keeps people scrolling
Suggesting that their could ever be a balanced approach over there is pretty amusing.
balance: equipoise between contrasting, opposing, or interacting elements
Merriam-Webster.com
That's how social networks are supposed to be built.
I don't want a For You tab that is 75% the most evil people on the planet, interspersed with ads.
It reminded me so much of early Fakebook when they would change the security settings back to default every second day with an 'update' and then try to hide how to reset everything back.
I have received notification that they're shutting it down due to copyright infringement.
By all means, shut it down; nothing on it came from me. But the issue there is YOURS, FB, not mine.
Shittier, but wider, engagement looks good for them on paper but I guarantee they have ppl internally saying it’s going to suck (I’ve been one of the ppl trying to warn them at different places).
Maybe now they’ll listen.
There’s a lot of people like this in games, as well
Evaluate their marriages in terms of sunk costs vs opportunity for expansion.
Cyndi Lauper was a prophet: money changes everything.
Makes me wonder if those aren’t Meta-bots used to drive content.
Doubt they'll pay attention, though. "Balancing" so the customer can get what he wants appears to be Moon landing difficult. Except for Bluesky.