Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/mark-zuckerberg-selflessly-building-yet-224921393.html
https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/mark-zuckerberg-selflessly-building-yet-224921393.html
58 Comments
anguo@piefed.ca · 303 pts · 81d
To save you a click: A betting app.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 81d
I have watched more than one friend flush his family/savings down the shitter on these apps.
I don't get gambling, worst I ever did was a few trips to Vegas and betting on the ponies that bot count on one hand.
zurohki@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 81d
I put two dollars into a poker machine once. I won $7.
Now I'm up by $5 so long as I never gamble again. Don't want to break my streak.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 81d
Some people are very susceptible to variable reward schemes and it causes addictive behavior, especially people high in impulsivity, sensation-seeking, or reward sensitivity.
Gust@piefed.social · 3 pts · 80d
Hey, its me. Some people. I spend so much time looking for games that let me get that gambling psychology fix without allowing me to actually bet anything of value on them. Ranked ladders in games are peak, because the rank is meaningless but my stupid brain thinks its worth something so it feels like real gambling to win or lose it
Almacca@aussie.zone · 34 pts · 81d
That dude's really never had an original idea in his life, has he?
rozodru@piefed.world · 15 pts · 81d
nope. even back in his Harvard days his original claim to fame was a hot or not clone. Facebook was built off the ideas of other people and myspace. even the original exclusivity of FB wasn't his idea. He's never produced a single original idea ever. So how did he become successful? He got lucky that a couple dudes went to him first as opposed to another developer to build their idea.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 81d
His complete lack of imagination and vision are what gives me hope that he's totally going to shit the bed one terrible idea at a time.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 81d
A betting app where you gamble video game points instead of money. So missing the entire reason betting apps exist.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 81d
Initially, but the article mentioned they aren’t ruling out real money in future. I think they likely want to get a broad user base first, then start offering the really exciting bets for small amounts of money, eventually leading to larger sums.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 81d
well there will be points <-> usd exchange just like japanese casinos which are totally not gambling and just let you win toys - don't mind the "we buy toys" shop right next door. This strategy is as old as time itself. Once you have this layer you can do so much manipulation and obfuscation.
inkblade@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 81d
The year was 2015, and I predicted that facebook would include a betting feature into their stupid app, and my friends called me mad!
11 years later, who is mad now!? 😂😂😂
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 81d
Damn, that might actually turn a profit. 😢
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 9 pts · 81d
Meta Polymarket?
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 81d
Doing the Lord's work!
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 81d
Thank you
AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 81d
This guy raises cows and has fun figuring out ways to feed the cow to make the meat more richer.
I’d bet $20 that’s how he sees us. Just feeding us addictive apps to make us yummier for advertisers. No concern for our wellbeing.
yakko@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 81d
I wouldn't bet a dime that the sun would rise tomorrow on a gambling app run by a guy like him.
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 81d
It’s hard to mess up. In fact, Trump had to run off at least a few gambling addicts to tank his casino. Modern software engineers would find it difficult to create such friction in a digital environment.
yakko@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 81d
Two important facts. One, there is no such thing as idiot-proof. Two, anyone in charge did not get there by not being an idiot.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 81d
I dunno... have you heard Trump speak?
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 81d
Sorry for the confusing double negative, Trump sounding that way is exactly my point
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 80d
I would argue that some people in charge are very shrewd and get into positions of power. And some people are decent and become leaders (Zelenskyy and Obama as examples)
yakko@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 80d
This applies to both of them too. They weren't elected for being smart, they both are smart but they leaned on charisma, speaking skills, and a sense of 'genuineness' to win their supporters' favour. I really meant it. People simply do not get elected for seeming smart, and if they are smart they won't try to sound smart while running for office in America.
I was fond of Obama when I was younger, but I look back with disdain on a lot of his track record. He sold people hope, and people look back on the time before Trump with understandably rosy glasses though, so I don't begrudge anyone liking him.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 81d
Soon, you'd be able to!
adhdsergio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 81d
Oof! Also this joke is so...meta
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 81d
Next he'll implement the 18+ image generation that Grok was doing and you're getting closer to metaverse blackjack and hookers.
datendefekt@feddit.org · 37 pts · 81d
I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 10 pts · 81d
Yes but turns out they don't need ideas to siphon all the money into their pockets anymore. The entire system is designed for it now.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 81d
He's got entirely too much money, if he can blow it on this kind of bullshit. Same with all of them.
We need to take at least 50% from these Parasites, as a start, reserving the right to come back for more, at any time. Out of that, we give a bonus to all their workers, then put the rest in a fund to cover things like Medicare 4 All, UBI, free college, college loan and medical bill forgiveness, free day care, etc.
And when we need more, we'll be back. And if you continue to squander your ill-gotten profits, so you don't have to pay your societal obligations/reparations, well just take it away, and imprison the corporate leadership who insist on pursuing their Parasitic business practices.
krisevol@lemmus.org · -9 pts · 80d
Thats one way to vaporize everyones 401k
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 80d
You say that like most of us are ever going to see a dime of that money.
krisevol@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 80d
Most people with 401ks do see that money
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 80d
Tell me how that works out for you when the AI bubble pops.
krisevol@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 80d
You can pick your stocks and options in a 401k. Im heavy in bonds.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 80d
As someone who watched their retirement go up in smoke once because of a global financial implosion, I promise it won't matter as much as you think it will where you stuff that cash.
krisevol@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 79d
What was your investments? Even if you had indexes you would be up right now.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · -21 pts · 80d
People like you are the reason Monero exists.
You cant steal what you cant see and if you murder the person you still get nothing
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 80d
No individuals like Zuckerburg are the ones that ruin being wealthy for others, especially by being extremely stingy
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 80d
Zuckerberg is a billionaire. If he cut down his consumption to the point we couldn't tell he was rich, then mission fucking accomplished.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 80d
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 81d
Nice clickbait. Too bad I got my info from the comments instead.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 81d
The world has no idea how much it wants the Torment Nexus and it's up to visionaries like Zuck to show us the light.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 81d
That's okay. He's got mountains of cash to waste because he's selling billions of user data worth trillions.
tonytins@pawb.social · 12 pts · 81d
And he can't be voted out. Zuck literally made himself king of his own little virtual empire.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 81d
I self exiled myself from his empire 12+ years ago. His crown means nothing to me.
He can't keep that sinking ship afloat w/ bots alone. So if people keeping walking way it all ends.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 81d
Boomers, Gen x, and older millennials are a massive clientele. You absolutely cannot convince them to abandon Facebook.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 81d
Not my experience w/ my circle as we are all GenX. We use other ways to keep in touch.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 81d
Using your experience in place of actual data is silly.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribution-of-users-age-group-usa/
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 81d
That data says about half the user base is not what you say it is.
Largest share 25-34, 18-24 in very close third place, making 18-34 about 42%. Also, general usage still expected to grow (somehow), so it's not just old people staying there forever.
34 in 2025 is millenial but not even older millenial.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 81d
He'd be an emperor then, surely.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 81d
last refuge of the desperate, building a gambling app, or gambling themselves.
architect@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 80d
I feel like he doesn’t get away with calling it “arena”.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 81d
Having seen him operate and read about his past, he does not know how to act selflessly, just as a cat does not know how to fly.
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 81d
Yeah, not clicking on that headline, sorry
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 80d
Androids don't have a sense of self yet. That's what the title means. Right?
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 81d
Yes, the industry as a whole I'd say was stagnating before AI came along, Windows 11 was full of garbage and cramming ads and games into the start menu and that was released a year before ChatGPT3.5