@staysaasy Software's monopolizing power, rooted in the high production cost but unbeatably low distribution cost, doesn't disappear because bozo somewhere made a social network for their friends with Opus and got it on the App Store. (Ask me how I know.)
@staysaasy It's 1993 and Navigator just launched and its going to take some time for human thought to catch up to the potential. YouTube found something new by being the nth video platform after a decade of attempts to recreate television and movies.
@marsreviewer You rang? This is basically Fiber's thesis in a nutshell. The plummeting cost of software production unlocks coordination businesses at human scale.
@JustinWitzeck@Noahpinion "colonized reality" is both devastating and a total banger phrase. It nails my view of Meta and what I think makes them uniquely bad among big tech. They want mediate between *people* and that's just not the same as mediating between a person and a business (google ads etc)
full agree. Clouds services are cheap and good, edge device are plentiful and powerful and now cost of producing software is plummeting to zero.
What matters is now why.
yesterday i finished a system to serve OTA updates to the mobile apps and crowed on IG "OTAs have been achieved internally" which means I spent all day today fixing that system and can now report that OTAs, in no uncertain terms, occasionally work internally.
@mindyisser@ezraklein i've been working on an IG clone (and then some) for philly that's inspired by a lot of these ideas. No ads, no AI slop, no strangers -> https://t.co/cfTcayiBVL
instagram's strategy: make you feel almost connected, almost inspired, almost fulfilled... and then sell you something to close the gap.
And to think they're worried AI content is gonna break the spell.
I fucking hope so!
#instagramsucks
Gotta respect IG game, they turned national crises into content farms. Exquisitely bad for social health but one helluva business model.
Anyway, #instagramsucks.
I think we're going to need digital spaces that are reliably free of AI slop and doctored images. Fiber's idea is simple: all photos come from the in app camera - no uploads from your roll