Why?
Everything successful fb has done in more than a decade is copying or acquiring competitors.
Zuck has spent a few years setting $36,000,000,000 on fire building secondlife2, that nobody wants. The stock is down 25% in the last 2 years.
facebook is like google, both are advertising companies at their core. They both leveraged one idea to serve adds really well and have failed to produce anything new in house since.
Why?
Everything successful fb has done in more than a decade is copying or acquiring competitors.
Fair and accurate.
Zuck has spent a few years setting $36,000,000,000 on fire building secondlife2, that nobody wants.
Despite everyone wanting them to fail, this is inaccurate. They’ve sold as much Quest hardware as Microsoft sells Xboxes in the same time period, and those cost figures include hardware, and ALL their VR software, across multiple different games and apps. They did not spend that much on Horizon Worlds which is their failed second life clone.
facebook is like google, both are advertising companies at their core. They both leveraged one idea to serve adds really well and have failed to produce anything new in house since.
Again, fair and accurate, though missing the mechanism for how this occurs. Because they’re advertising companies, they’re great at tracking users and prioritizing market research. This is what makes them great at copying stuff, because they’re very very good at using market research and user data to determine which are the features actually worth copying.
Yes, Oculus has sold a lot of headsets.
Until they both lose money and users measurably from these changes, they will copy one another to chase every last cent.
Meta promised more exposure for my small business posts, didn’t deliver.
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Wait… They promised more exposure if you verified your account?
A broader audience: Reach more people across comments, search and recommendations.
Or so they claimed…
What is they are “verifying”? That the account holder had 12 or 15 bucks to throw away?
The way it was meant to be, when social media started doing that, is that it verifies your identity. You use your real name (or stage name, or business name) in the account, and they “verify” it actually belongs to you and not an impostor.
Now instead, it verifies that you paid the fee, and your account name could be Napoleon Bonaparte for what they care.
are tech companies doing this
now-paid-but-was-free-for-a-long-timeservice because they know their company is failing (or soon to fail), so they are trying to accumulate as much money as they can before sh*t hits the fan?I am not an economist, but I have an idea that this is because the alternatives have done that too, and since this renders the point of moving invalid, they might as well also introduce the same stuff
A lot of social media companies aren’t profitable, but they didn’t care because of cheap loans and lots of investors. Now that loans are more ecpensive and investors want AI, social media companies are realizing, “We need to make money, or investors will hate us”, and are locking things down. Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and Tumblr are some of the examples we see. All trying to push subscriptions or block adblockers.
Does anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
For the same price as an entire TV subscription where you can watch hundreds of shows and movies, all month if you’d like, would you like to have a few pixels change next to your name and have your experience be almost entirely the exact same as it is for free?
These people are out of touch
People on Threads are still delusioned that it’s different from Twitter lol
The irony of this being posted on a reddit clone…
Why? Lemmy is not just a clone. It’s fundamental rework of the platform. With Threads it’s exactly the same thing just a different billionaire.
“available later this week” and they didn’t even bother including the price in the local currencies?
Society has gone full rigatti.
If you’re gonna say it, actually say it.
That’s awefly needy of you. Why exactly should anyone give a single fuck about what you want, dick-tater.
I’m just confused why you’re censoring yourself. I don’t need or want anything from you. If you’re worried about saying a word that you think is offensive, don’t say it. If you’re not worried, say it.
Personally, they are the same sort of trash ever since I realise I can’t access its content from a web browser and I have to download the app with an account, so from the start.
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Google has had many successful products since AdWords & AdSense
Had being the primary word after Google cancelled them.
Don’t be a fanboi for an advertising company. Google is a shit company that has produced by and large garbage while letting their primary user facing products wilt on the vine over the past 4 years.
Elon owns Twitter not Google. Not sure how you got into comparing Facebook with Google
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I mean, shows how these people think. You should pay for everything, even the natural stuff like identity.
Of course, if people are willing to pay, well…
I can understand why they are doing this, the programming require to roll out a feature like this is minimal, so even if they barely profit from it, if at all, they didn’t spend a lot of time on doing this feature, so, expect other platforms to soon follow.
It’d be one thing if they were adding any more value or removing their marketing surveillance, but paying this much per month for a blue check mark is just bonkers.
