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by aelmeleegy 786 days ago
No one said it's been done. There has been healthy debate about the fact that there hasn't been any (major) new social media networks since Snap (and Instagram before it). The cloud computing paradigm is now mostly dominated by 2 players (with GCP a distant third). here are 2 major desktop OSes, 2 major mobile OSes. etc.

This isn't proof that it won't happen again, it just says that the rate at which new innovations in software (and a new workout app doesn't count) has slowed down. LLMs being the exception but it's not like you and I can start an AI company in our garage.
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secfirstmd 786 days ago
This is a joke right? No new major social media networks since Snap? Eh what about TikTok?
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aelmeleegy 786 days ago
Got me with that one.
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ipaddr 786 days ago
The cloud paradigm is for players printing money that need a scalable way to catch all of those dollars by paying 1000 times more for compute on demand.

Create decentralized software and get ahead for the next shift.

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