Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1000% It's so much work. We still have so much to do. https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1928847135216382109
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rish
@rish
the only way new messaging surfaces work is opening up a new way to reach people - increase reachability instead of replacing an existing surface. if I have someone's phone number who is also on here, I might iMessage them but if I have never contacted them before, I can now message them instead of needing to figure out a way. FB Messenger is a good early example of this. Started even before WhatsApp but didn't get as popular (list of reasons, separate story). This increasing reachability is pretty much the only way new messaging spaces have taken off since WhatsApp (which replaced the only mobile p2p messaging before that - SMS). IG Direct is an example of this which came about later but does pretty well. Working on Messenger directly helped me understand a lot re: reachability, pushability, etc. (and obv UX bar et al)
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rish
@rish
FB Messenger still has 500M+ DAU fwiw
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accountless.eth
@accountless.eth
messenger was innovative and fun to use. I had friends use it that didn’t use their main fb account, they just had it so they could do messenger.
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