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by amatecha 58 days ago
IG was cool when it started, but yeah, its acquisition (and shortly before) was such a swift downhill slide. Haven't even logged into my account in years and years.
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People have this real tendency to say x never would have accomplished y, when in fact the ecosystem was ripe for it

The Winklevoss twins, whose project Zuckerberg intentionally delayed while he got to market first (whatever it was. I don't know exactly. Some say it was only a dating site. Some say they used bootstrapping effects to onboard colleges first). It was 2003 or whatever. It very well could've disrupted Myspace or Friendster and made them multi billionaires

"Instagram had no users" people really liked Instagram. It could've taken off, if it wasn't already

Whatsapp - Whatsapp was profitable. Now Zuck has access to your phone numbers

Stop a) whitewashing his history and b) stop assuming "blah never would have accomplished". That's an utterly bizarre take in the face of theft