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Artificial Inconvenience

coldhealing • 452 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Monetization User Experience Platform Competition
  1. Twitter implemented restrictions on interaction with posts containing Substack links to compete with Substack Notes.
  2. Platforms strive for dominance and monetization through user retention and restricting links to other platforms.
  3. Despite challenges and artificial inconveniences on social media, users seek diverse platforms for different purposes.

Musk Vs Zuck: Fight is Outside the Cage

Sector 6 | The Newsletter of AIM • 19 implied HN points • 05 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Social media Data Privacy AI Development Platform Competition
  1. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are in a competition that goes beyond just their online arguments. Zuckerberg is launching a new social media platform called Instagram Threads, which is aimed at rivaling Twitter.
  2. This new platform is part of a bigger trend towards text-based social media, joining others like Mastodon and Bluesky. It shows that there's a growing interest in how people communicate online.
  3. Zuckerberg seems to be focused on collecting valuable data through this platform. As Twitter and Reddit limit data access, his strategy may involve using this data for future tech development.

Apple makes changes to the App Store

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 09 Jun 16
🕹 Technology Apps App Store Platform Competition
  1. Apple is making significant changes to its App Store, including allowing search-based advertising and reforming subscription pricing.
  2. The introduction of search-based advertising by Apple aims to help consumers find apps that are more valuable to them by allowing developers to signal their app's worth through keywords.
  3. Apple's new subscription pricing model offers a 15:85 split for subscriptions lasting more than one year, incentivizing developers to maintain user engagement and app quality.

Coming soon...

Platform Papers • 0 implied HN points • 30 Dec 21
🕹 Technology Research Digital Platforms Big Tech Academic Platform Competition
  1. Platformpapers will start publishing monthly blog posts in 2022 covering the latest academic research on digital platforms and big tech
  2. The posts will summarize and contextualize articles from the platform papers references database to make the research more accessible to a wider audience
  3. The goal is to engage individuals interested in platforms such as scholars, students, managers, creators, and policy makers
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