Social Graphs are Dead, Long Live Social Graphs - Will the ported existing IG graph of relationships provide enough cat-nip to build a new network? …
Social Graphs are Dead, Long Live Social Graphs - Will the ported existing IG graph of relationships provide enough cat-nip to build a new network? …
Social apps that operate on interest graphs are among the hardest to activate users (specifically, to create a relevant timeline for new people). You can't simply "import contacts" to have a great feed. And if it's text-based like Reddit or X, the algorithm can't learn from subtle interaction clues in the same way a full-screen video app can, like... See more
Nikita Bierx.comIf Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.