Insert multiple spidermen with multiple pest control workers meme.
Instead of metaverse we’re getting tiktok 1.01
Lol Zuck
https://twitter.com/pierce/status/1551902076514476033?s=21&t=OBsFgcRLDcIwPRtM7Viz5w
A+ leadership!
“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said on the June 30th call, according to a recording obtained by The Verge . “And part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might just say that this place isn’t for you. And that self-selection is okay with me.”
it’s easy to hire nothing but workaholics when you have a 10-person startup and you can dump shittons of equity on them with the prospects of a possible lottery-sized jackpot.
it’s a lot harder when you already have a 12-figure market cap and there’s no upside to the stock and you have 60k employees.
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The funny thing is that Zuckerberg is right that any larger company with 10,000+ employees is going to have a lot of dead weight in the workforce that is actually more trouble than they’re worth as employees. But lol at coming right out and saying the quiet part out loud and calling part of your workforce useless. You’re supposed to talk about how proud you are of all the great work the team has done and the bright future for the company and the Bestest Team In The World. Then you go through your management team and cascade down ruthless directives to cull the losers and haters from the ranks.
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With FB Zuck dropped something in the world and keeping up with growth and demand was a 24/7 undertaking for a decade, where they were just printing money. They basically discovered Coca-Cola or whatever. A friend of a friend in college was their first hire (now a billionaire), in charge of hardware, and all he was doing for a couple of years was buying and deploying tons of hardware to meet demand.
Meta sounds like a good plausible idea, but so do a lot of things. You don’t really know until it hits the world, and sometimes the great idea is actually Diet Crystal Pepsi, and you’re fucked.
The metaverse has a lot of buyin at FB, and they can push it for a long time, but there’s a difference between trying to make “fetch” happen and “fetch” happening.
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You probably just fit the profile of people that tend to like basketball. So you get a fire hose dispensing basketball non stop.
I was listening to a podcast interview with a startup CEO yesterday, she complained about their cost to acquire a new customer increasing significantly (2-3x) because of “iOS changes” and the host stopped her and was like “hold up, you’re referring to apple blocking ad network tracking cookies, right?”
Apparently instagram, and to a smaller degree facebook have started to copy tiktok by pushing videos over pictures and having an algorithm decide what you should see over what you have chosen. I was reading there has been some uproar over it.
I think Kylie Jenner said “I just want cute pictures of my friends”.
Both properties feeling a lot of pressure from tiktok growth worldwide.
“I’m glad we took a risk – if we’re not failing every once in a while, we’re not thinking big enough or bold enough,” said Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, in an interview with tech newsletter Platformer. “But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. [When] we’ve learned a lot, then we come back with some sort of new idea or iteration. So we’re going to work through that.”
“Your feed being flooded with shit is good actually”
yea that fucking sucked and seemed to defeat the whole purpose. it’s extremely creepy how meta’s algorithm is really hellbent on showing you what IT wants you to see - aka cuckerturd - whilst tiktok’s is a little more clever at showing you stuff it knows you’ll love but you can toggle back and forth between discover and followed.
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I think the simpler answer is that they were on your wifi while looking things up about their trip to tell you about it.
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Everyone is tracked through any device they have that can access wifi. They can use wifi access points to triangulate better than GPS. So they don’t even have to be actually access your wifi to know when people are in proximity to you. I think the algo’s are just that good at targeting.
Of course I wouldn’t be shocked if they are listening as well.
facebook spends xillions of dollars hiring the best AI engineers and they can’t figure out how to get this manufactured engagement farming off my timeline (of course they can completely figure this out, they just don’t because engagement farming is good for their revenue)
I have a couple FB friends who always reply to those. One of millions of replies. It’s crazy.