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Fiber is a photo and event sharing app where every person in your feed is someone you know in real life. It's made for loving more where you live.

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@Jimmyking35 really gorgeous shots here man

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@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.)

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@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.

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@Thuris @marsreviewer working on it.

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@marsreviewer You rang? This is basically Fiber's thesis in a nutshell. The plummeting cost of software production unlocks coordination businesses at human scale.

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@UrbanCourtyard Also its gorgeous

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@gdb stewardship too.

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@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)

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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.

[Ash Arora @asharoraa]

Comms and storytelling will soon be one of the highest paid jobs

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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.

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@chriscareymsp I'm working on exactly this problem with a multi-pronged approach thats showing some promise - its an interesting problem!

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Fuck this is so true

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

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@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

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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

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Gotta respect IG game, they turned national crises into content farms. Exquisitely bad for social health but one helluva business model.

Anyway, #instagramsucks.

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i truly believe Instagram was not destined to suck. Alas, #instagramsucks.

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the loneliest generation in history has the most social networks. maybe the networks aren't that social?

#instagramsucks

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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