<story><title>Meta preps new social app</title><url>https://liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-instagrams-new-app-could-be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>Public networks are dead. We did it for two decades and now people need to go back to something more real and private. Social networks in the current form are just attention seeking. We&amp;#x27;ve been trained to say things that will garner likes and retweets. I welcome text and chat, maybe even voice to text but not in the public form. Closed networks only now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berkes</author><text>Facebook has such a network: WhatsApp. In the US apparently not that omnipresent, but it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt; in many countries. Facebook has the data, and knows &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; how such closed-networks are in demand, can (not) be monetized and what features are needed to make them grow.&lt;p&gt;In e.g. The Netherlands anything from your neighborhood-watch to parents-info, or anything related to school, via business-groups, your bachelors party, to the weekly scissors-collectors-club-coffee-meet . All of these organize, inform, discuss, on WhatsApp.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta preps new social app</title><url>https://liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-instagrams-new-app-could-be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asim</author><text>Public networks are dead. We did it for two decades and now people need to go back to something more real and private. Social networks in the current form are just attention seeking. We&amp;#x27;ve been trained to say things that will garner likes and retweets. I welcome text and chat, maybe even voice to text but not in the public form. Closed networks only now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ciex</author><text>Public networks are a lot more hostile than we realize while we have moderation armies at work. That may not be a sustainable model. I think the way forward is building the right tools to help communities self-manage. It will be more like Discord and less like Twitter.</text></comment>