Social Platforms
topic on 10 shows · 14 statements across 14 episodes
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14 statements about Social Platforms, every show
Reil: Social media commentary is entirely worthless and net negative
“I think commentary is entirely worthless and it has almost, it has no positive contribution. The only thing that it does is It I think it drags some people down so it has a net negative benefit, and it obviously is, is encouraged through you know, the way the …”
DHH: Algorithmic social feeds break creator reach unless posts go viral
“What's broken now on the social platforms is that my followers don't see anything I post unless it goes medium viral because everyone is now in the algorithmic feed. So I follow someone. It's just like this little drop in the signal and it kind of breaks that …”
Jake Paul: Platforms will require human identity verification against AI
“I think there'll have to be something where yeah, humans Essentially verify themselves.”
Altman: Social platforms could solve bots but engagement incentives conflict
“I don't know if the social platforms it's like in their interest to solve this. It is cause it's creating like, at least in the short term, it creates like a lot of engagement and increased usage. So I believe they could solve it if they wanted to. I'm not sur…”
Chen: Social platforms are replacing follower graphs with algorithmic feeds
“It turns out then the algorithms are so good that maybe that should be their entire feed is just suggested content. But then what does it mean as a creator to even build a following on one of these platforms? If, you know, even if you have, you know, a 100,000…”
Dhillon: Outtake AI's edge is trusted reporting pipelines with domain registrars
“I think the big differentiator, you know, in addition to all the agentic stuff is like, we've thought really deeply about how do we become how do we become the platform that is like trusted by domain registrars, hosts social platforms, et cetera, to be a high …”
Britt Morin: Regulators will force platforms to label AI bots as not real
“They're gonna have to label them as not real. Like, well, No. All the regulatory stuff with AI.”
Fake: Social platforms are defined entirely by the behavior they tolerate
“One of the things that Heather Champ, who is a community manager, the first community manager on Flickr, one thing that she says repeatedly is that what you tolerate is what you are. So if you tolerate white supremacists on your platform, you are a platform fo…”
Belsky: Adobe enterprise customers shifted >50% of marketing spend to social
“You look at big company marketing budgets and a lot of our customers have shifted at least if not more than 50% of their marketing spend. Towards social platforms away from a world where everything was destined for video or TV or print or whatever to this new …”
Bickhart: Social algorithms prioritize peer shares over likes and comments
“As far as like Facebook's algorithm goes, like if you get, the more shares you get, the more likely you're going to be featured on that discover page. So create a content that it's inherently shareable, not necessarily the most outliers or comments, but like c…”
Raj Shamani: Platforms push creators who align with their strategic format priorities
“Whatever the platform wants to promote, if you are, if your interests are aligned with that, they'll push you way faster than anyone else.”
Lessin: Social platforms failed by offering open APIs without business models
“I think shame on those platforms for being open without a clear business model around it for too long.”
Bhat: The era of one-size-fits-all social media platforms has ended
“That I think is because I think there's no one platform serves all that day, that time is gone.”