Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by edgyquant on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:15PM
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This is a dishonest answer. Tumblr died because it’s niche was adult content. Banning your niche is choosing to fail.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by monocasa on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @08:56PM
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It doesn't seem dishonest to me; chasing those ad dollars are what led to the supremely stupid decision of banning one of their core niches.
Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by edgyquant on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:04PM
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We are talking about platforms where the ads themselves caused users to leave. This is not what happened with Tumblr and it is not a good faith view to say so.
Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by monocasa on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:51PM
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I only see you attempting to constrain the topic that far, rather than just the ways that advertising based models in general can pervert a company's incentives by turning away their core user base. Sometimes it's just changing the UX until your userbase no longer wants to show up. Sometimes it's literally just banning a huge chunk of your userbase for some reason.