alt Hacker NewsSerious question: Is all of the Muse noise actually organic, or is there a giant astroturfing campaign? Like John Gruber has endlessly talked about Muse since its dropped, often in a weirdly glowing fashion, and it's incredibly weird given that a) he is almost always hyper-critical of Meta, b) It isn't Apple, c) nothing about Muse is unique or novel or differentiating.
I don't get it. Is Meta handing out big $ for everyone to make Muse happen?
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Meta will always do whatever it takes to get more users.
Isn’t everyone a paid shill now? This is the influencer economy. Get influenced ya bishhhhh
Yes.
DF and their ilk, are irrelevant so they need to talk it up to get their blogs, and podcasts relevant again in the 'AI' conversation.
You would have thought that Gruber would be talking about their own expert subject matter i.e. Apple more, but since 2016 he has been going off the Apple expert opinion into Politics, Trump, AI, etc and not mainly (or exclusively) Apple.
I don't know why anybody still follows DF anymore as in the age of video, social media and podcasts the DF blog has fallen off.
That being said, on Muse, I will reserve my judgement there.
Wait till Meta's earnings to see if Muse has got any numbers to share to see if it made a difference.
Meta had a huge step up in advertising this since they've pushed it front-and-center to every one of the billions who uses Facebook, Instagram, Threads etc.