[HN Gopher] Mark Zuckerberg: "We're moving very slowly" (2012)
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       Mark Zuckerberg: "We're moving very slowly" (2012)
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-07-09 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.threads.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.threads.net)
        
       | nkuttler wrote:
       | Opened in Firefox, nothing (presuambly adblock), openened in
       | chrome, HTTP 429. Haha.
        
       | yodsanklai wrote:
       | Call me stupid, but what's the message there?
        
         | quadcore wrote:
         | He's pressuring for results with an external example. That way,
         | he gets less of "we cant do that".
        
         | bo-tao wrote:
         | Copying is good, it has worked for the chinese, we should start
         | copying to move faster
        
       | troupo wrote:
       | While people are complaining about how to see the emails...
       | Zuckerberg is right, and in 10 years since Facebook (or anyone
       | else) has done nothing to address the problem. Or to build
       | similar products.
       | 
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       | Some quotes:
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       | In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly
       | and building lots of different products instead of just focusing
       | on one thing at a time. This allows them to plant lots of seeds,
       | and although it yields lower quality products in the short term
       | as they're cloning and the markets are growing quickly...
       | 
       | They (Renren) They also have more features than us, including:
       | 
       | They have built their own version of Pinterest. In addition to
       | your own timeline, you can have board pages that people can
       | follow. They are tightly integrated into their NF.
       | 
       | They have built their own version of Tumblr. Same deal as with
       | their version of Pinterest.
       | 
       | They have built their own standalone messenger app, where one key
       | feature is using it like a walkie talkie -- basically like Voxer.
       | Apparently Tencent QQ has also released a Voxer-like app which is
       | really blowing up in China.
       | 
       | Renren has also built their own games and they have 6 of the top
       | 10 Chinese games in the iOS app store.
       | 
       | They have also built out a full music product where they have
       | licensed all the music in China themselves.
       | 
       | They have done some innovative things with commenting, like
       | enabling people to easily fork comment threads to turn them into
       | separate threads if they want.
        
       | gardenhedge wrote:
       | Clicking the logo just toggles dark and light mode. Lol which
       | designer thought of that?
        
         | red2awn wrote:
         | Probably cloned from China.
        
       | mongol wrote:
       | First time I visited Threads. I thought it was only available
       | using an app and outside EU?
        
         | yodsanklai wrote:
         | this is the web version, readonly
        
       | latchkey wrote:
       | The mention of Voxer is interesting.
       | 
       | https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-pay-walkie-talkie-app...
       | 
       | https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-loses-bid-toss-175-m...
        
       | FunnyLookinHat wrote:
       | 429... Hilarious.
        
       | f6v wrote:
       | I get this feeling there's a perceived opportunity of perpetual
       | innovation in social media space. I don't want to say "everything
       | that can be invented has already been invented". But I don't
       | think that underlying technology and society has changed so much
       | there's going to be a thing that's going to rival twitter or fb
       | in the next couple years.
        
         | notatoad wrote:
         | > everything that can be invented has already been invented
         | 
         | From a technology perspective I think this is broadly correct -
         | these are essentially just crud apps, there's nothing new.
         | 
         | But in addition to being technology products, these apps are
         | entertainment products. And as long as people have the capacity
         | to get bored, there will be continued opportunity to innovate
         | on the entertainment experience. It doesn't even have to be
         | novel, just recycle some app ideas from ten years ago. I'm sure
         | vine will be back soon.
        
         | yodsanklai wrote:
         | I'm not so sure. Technology is one thing, but finding the right
         | format for social networks may take many iterations. I find
         | Twitter to be extremely toxic for instance, but there's some
         | value to it. There must be a way to improve this initial idea.
         | Keep the good, and minimize trolls and hate speech, and
         | encourage people to stay courteous. Same thing for Facebook.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | manojlds wrote:
       | "there are no original problems" in this domain is the crux of it
       | with Threads and Elon calling it a copy.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | Barrin92 wrote:
         | Unless Elon thinks he invented the solar panel, the electric
         | motor and the rocket he might as well complain about himself.
         | All entrepreneurial activity is taking something that exists
         | and making it cheaper, nothing wrong with it.
         | 
         | Original creations are, by their very definition, spontaneous
         | and discontinuous, if you could plan them they wouldn't be
         | original. If there was a method to originality you could copy
         | it, therefore everything truly original is by necessity
         | accidental. The entire debate about copying is silly.
        
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       | davidgerard wrote:
       | this is not viewable on the web
        
         | yoavm wrote:
         | Works fine in Firefox for Android.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | ptrrrrrrppr wrote:
       | mirror anyone? hangs loading forever
        
         | gouggoug wrote:
         | If you're using firefox with facebook containers you need to
         | allow threads.net to run in the facebook container.
        
       | ocal5 wrote:
       | https://archive.is/MAj1e
        
       | mkl95 wrote:
       | The site's layout is all over the place. I haven't used Twitter
       | for a while, but I don't remember it being that confusing.
        
         | partiallypro wrote:
         | Threads doesn't have a public web interface yet; you can only
         | share Threads and see just that. I'm sure that will change in
         | the near future, but I imagine that is why you're confused.
        
       | umanwizard wrote:
       | Non-Threads link: https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-
       | facebook-move-f...
        
       | 10g1k wrote:
       | Zuckerberg stole facebook from his college friends. He was taken
       | to court over it, and settled.
       | 
       | His metaverse VR world was a lame copy of Second Life.
       | 
       | Now he's done a copy/paste of twitter.
       | 
       | The guy has never had an original thought in his life.
        
       | RamblingCTO wrote:
       | https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1550168842378170368
        
       | carlossouza wrote:
       | Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after
       | this email.
       | 
       | And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted
       | Renren's "strong culture of cloning things" to the letter: first
       | targeting Snapchat (2015-16), and now targeting Twitter...
       | 
       | Or as someone replied below: > "I personally am pretty in favor
       | of this approach in life generally... I would love to be far more
       | aggressive and nimble in copying competitors at the interface /
       | last mile level"
        
         | PartiallyTyped wrote:
         | Even here, Meta is famous for moving very fast compared to rest
         | of FAANG outside Netflix.
        
       | DueDilligence wrote:
       | [dead]
        
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