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🚨 Instagram walks back its changes
It’s an almost unthinkable reversal from Meta’s extremely lucrative walled-garden strategy, which it has employed for its entire history as a company. But Mosseri told me that decentralization is the future of social networks — even if it means that someday a disgruntled Threads user will be able to take the following they build in the app to anoth... See more
Casey Newton • Meta unspools Threads
When Facebook introduced the news’ feed, it spurned feedback from ex-partners whose relationship-ending-statuses were now being blasted to all their friends. Facebook prioritized its engagement—and its revenue—over the impact on its users.
It’s hard to blame Facebook. It would have died out if it hadn’t introduced a newsfeed—the feed was the most en
... See more“It's not nearly as hard to get a bunch of people to try something as it to build something a bunch of people want to keep using over time,” Mosseri said.
Casey Newton • Meta unspools Threads
