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   Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 23:37:56 JST Ramsey Nasser

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   I'm still convinced that whenever you see multiple broadly identical features in a corporate product each version of that feature is championed by some VP as they jockey for a political power inside of a structure that resembles feudalism more than anything else. i.e. I do not believe for a moment that Instagram did a cost benefit analysis or user design research to determine that there *needs* to be three confusingly similar ways to upload videos.

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     Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 23:37:57 JST Ramsey Nasser

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     me: I have a video I would like to upload
     mastodon: ok

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     Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 23:37:59 JST Ramsey Nasser

     me: I have a video I would like to upload
     instagram: is it a reel? a post? a story? all of these require different resolutions, will be cut off in different ways, and will show up in different places. all these details are opaque to you.
     me:
     instagram: we succeeded because we are easy to use