Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Re:Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layo... by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:04PM (#33499172)

TBH I have no idea what you are talking about. There have even been a bunch of articles along the lines of "the social network is dead". That is, Facebook is all about who your friends are and your overall social network. TikTok has none of that - it's about following and finding content that is entertaining, not that an old friend just had a baby.

Heck, a big part of TikTok was Musical.ly, an app for lip syncing videos. That was a huge stroke of luck/foresight because it gave TikTok a lot of the music rights deals they would need to allow people to put videos to music.

Are you really arguing an app around individual videos set to music (which, in my experience, is still the vast majority of TikTok videos) is somehow an "incremental product change" to a friends-based social network?

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Re:Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layo... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:22PM (#33499357)

I'm too busy to explain it. But in short, the facebook/instagram (and youtube) algorithms are built to optimize:

1. Content that is profitable from an advertising perspective

2. Censoring certain content/only showing major/authoritative sources.

TikTok changed that by allowing grass roots content to go viral, which from an algorithmic perspective is less profitable. But that doesnt matter, its backed by the CCP. Theres alot that goes into why tiktok is better, and alot of it is monetary/business related, not computer science.

But beyond that, FB/Google just got lazy and stopped pushing for new things. Wildly successful and presumed monopolies, they left a massive product gap (allowing grass roots content to go viral), which TikTok filled.

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Re:Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layo... by PaulHoule on Sunday November 06, 2022 @08:26PM (#33499876)

Also TikTok seems to use a multi-armed bandit to balance explore/exploit in a way that previous sites didn't.

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Re:Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layo... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:42AM (#33502988)

TikTok have much better labelled training data, because you need to interact.

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Re:Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layo... by rvz on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:17AM (#33501846)

Correct. TikTok is a worse version of Facebook, funnelling data back to the CCP (as required), spying on certain individuals physical locations [0] on the platform, and creators are once again working for its algorithm that can dictate what is seen and unseen, for the content to be seen by billions, just like before.

They hype around it is because it is the current thing.

[0] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

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