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Faves is one of the few new social products that has actually stuck for me recently. It's been a blast to be on the beta and interact with so many fun and interesting people. It's like a breath of fresh air.
🙌 can’t wait to get my hands on an invite. fave sounds a lot like the original facebook news feed - which was the coolest thing ever when it first came out.. before they twisted it into Frankenstein.
🤔 in your opinion, what is the biggest mistake facebook has made with their news feed?
@kevando_ yeah it's not too far off! Facebook's heyday was images, status updates and links. Images became IG. Status updates became Twitter. Links never found a home.
I think the Newsfeed (1) tried to do too many things and (2) didn't modernize as media formats changed.
@tyler_confrey_maloney
100%
i never thought about it like that. you’re spot on. the fun did dismantle into twitter and ig.
imo they nailed groups and events which use the newsfeed and it’s impressive they achieved a unified UI, but at the cost of UX.
it’s kinda funny how they made react so websites everywhere could modernize, but forget neglected home.
Hey @chrismessina ! Excited to see you here.
Individual curators post content they like to Faves. From a rights perspective, it's no different than posting a tweet or TikTok to your Instagram story or sharing it in a text message.
@tyler_confrey_maloney ok, I think I get it... so I can post other people's public social content? But the creators aren't involved themselves in the platform... so it's kind of like social bookmarks?
@chrismessina in many ways Faves is a social, multimedia version of Pocket.
Here's how I think about the opportunity: When you see a piece of content you love, you want to share it with people. Right now this occurs on messaging platforms but the experience kind of sucks because iMessage, Whatsapp and DMs are built for messaging - not content sharing.
We want to be the place where this sharing and discussion occurs. We're trying to win the behavior by building a better core experience for sharing and discussing content.
Sharing: All the content plays in app (you're not constantly clicking to TikTok/Instagram/Twitter), you can create a "story" around the link, and all the posts are algorithmically ordered for you so you can quickly find the good stuff your friends recommend.
Discussing: We think audio can be a much better way to discuss content than text. So we're leaning into shortform, async audio and enabling creativity in commenting. We'll be launching audio filters, audio GIFs (letting you insert a 2 second clip from The Office into your comment) over the next month.
Our go-to-market is tech leaders but we see this becoming much more social over time.
Happy to chat if you want to hear more! We're closing our seed next week.
When I started using Faves, I didn't think I needed yet another place for discovering and sharing content. After a couple of weeks, I stand corrected. Fun to use, and I always discover valuable things I would otherwise have missed. So everybody join and multiply the fun :-)
Faves is a novel and effective way to discover and consume great content - because you receive recommendations from smart people, not dumb AI:) Awesome job Tyler and the team!
Been on Faves for a few months now and Faves is awesome!!! The signal to noise ratio is the highest I have ever seen in a social app.
P.S: There is smth rlly fun about leaving voice comments!
Keep up the good work @ Tyler
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