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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
There are 2 internets. One is the place where you find funny, interesting, and useful content from the most creative people in the world The other is where you interact with your friends and networks Today, we shove both into the same apps and call it social media, but imo it’s clear that’s gonna change soon
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Hugglemonster
@hugglemonster
Why do you think it’s gonna change soon? Is it going to bring rise to a new era of social media or… I’m just trying to really understand here cam
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Our existing apps can't do both. Arguably, no apps can do both well at the same time. Take Instagram. It's really multiple apps smushed together: - Normal Posts - Reels - DMs - Stories <- this is growing rn Posts + Reels started for friends, but the quality required to be "good" at either is way higher now than when they launched so most people are default "bad" at instagram compared to global talent market of posts + reels. Stories OTOH are much more ephemeral so by nature they can't be as competitive bc it's not worth the cost to produce. Snapchat's evolution indicates that might change over time, but for now they're basically the most useful "friend" feedback loop on Insta. Our mental contexts for Friends vs Creators are different AND your friends' content will never be as polished as a Creators... So either you live in a world where you never see your friends' stuff bc it's not as interesting as Creator stuff or you change the context in which you interact with your friends (aka different apps)
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Adam
@adam-
The copy pasta playbook Insta has been running is something that only leads to bloatware. They can do it because they have the user base, but this myopic pursuit to clobber together the “everything” app is just boring IMO
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Hugglemonster
@hugglemonster
In the context of Instagram, I think that’s just greed lol They saw stories from Snapchat and started their version They saw tiktok getting attention from short videos and created reels They saw twitter and created threads(which I believe no one uses). I think this is interesting and I haven’t really ever thought about this topic this way. Most social apps these days are creator based, even if they aren’t rn they eventually will be and i just realized I probably consume more creator content than my actual friends because “it’s more polished” and probably shoved in my face more. If farcaster created reels it just might be my last straw
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Rafaello.base.eth
@rafaello12
I completely believe this, my first thought was TikTok , then I quickly realized you can’t really connect with people on TikTok Likewise instagram(you forgot to add threads) But I see farcaster doing a lot of both tbh
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