Status Games and the Future of Social Networks

There seem to be more and more services popping up that let you generate fake vacation pictures with AI, as covered by The Verge here . At first I thought, "why would anyone want to use this?" But then when I saw Adam Mosseri's end-of-year thoughts about Instagram (also summarized by PetaPixel ), it made sense to me. In this post, I want to go through the things I agree with Adam about, and one important bit that I disagree with. The death of the feed First, a brief aside about Instagram. The main feed has been in decline over the past few years. This has been covered by many tech outlets, and

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