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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:48:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • ethanz

   @ethanz @jamesmarshall I actually think their innovation with Facebook Platform was a big part of their breakout success. When FB started, there were literally hundreds of equivalent-sized networks. But Facebook built a platform that other services didn't. Their APIs and in-page widget environment provided an opportunity for third-party developers to benefit from social network dynamics without having to build up their own social network services.

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     James M. (jamesmarshall@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:48:29 JST James M.

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     @ethanz I would argue that meta has never grown through innovation, at least not anything that benefits the users. They didn't invent social media; they only succeeded through monopolization. People only accept their products because they've lowered people's expectations of what social media can and should be.

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     ethanz (ethanz@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:48:29 JST ethanz

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     @jamesmarshall It's easy to slam Meta - and there are countless reasons to do so. But I think they've innovated in two related ways. One, they've made tools so simple that very large sets of people have been able to use them. That's not nothing - one of the major barriers to fediverse adoption is ease of use, and human factors work is HARD. Relatedly, they've assembled an absolutely massive index of users globally, which is incredibly powerful - if you know someone, they are likely on Meta.

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     ethanz (ethanz@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:48:31 JST ethanz

     There's lots of hot takes on Zuckerberg's content moderation decision, and then there's Julia Angwin's, who uses it to explain that Meta is no longer growing through innovation and is reduced to political groveling. https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/archive/heavy-lies-mark-zuckerbergs-crown/