Jay Peters
“That was a warning sign.”
That’s how Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, characterized the decision immediately after Elon Musk took over the company to change the logged out experience to the explore page.
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The CEO of Bumble says that the metaverse is “kind of contrary to everything I believe in in terms of getting humans to look each other in the eye.”
Roblox CEO David Baszucki thinks people will be dating in Roblox, but at Code 2023, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t sound like a fan of that idea. “Maybe that is how people will originally connect,” she said, but noted that “I will be much more sad for humanity than myself if people just stop really meeting in real life.”
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Bumble is exploring more expensive subscription tiers.
Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble, talked at Code 2023 about how the company is thinking about more pricey subscription tiers that would come with more features.
She declined to give an estimate on price — hopefully it’s not as high as Tinder’s $499 per month plan! — but she said how it could offer things like AI-powered features to help you find better matches.
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Listen to Casey Bloys avoid responding to my question about the upcoming Harry Potter show on Max.
He said there wasn’t enough time left to answer my question — but he also promised that Warner Bros. Discovery will some day. I’ll be waiting!
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Casey Bloys didn’t address why Max greenlit a major new Harry Potter franchise in light of J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments toward the transgender community.
To be fair to Bloys, I asked him about it at Code 2023 at the end of his allotted time on stage. “With one minute left in our conversation, I’m not even going to get into that because that is a much longer, longer conversation.”
I tried to push him — Bloys deferred a similar question when the major new show was announced in April — and asked when Warner Bros. Discovery might talk about this. “At some point, we will,” Bloys said. “But not with a minute for a very complicated, nuanced topic, and I’m not going to do it.”
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“I am holding out the need for soul and human stories.”
Casey Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, is pretty bearish on AI-generated TV shows and movies right now.
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Casey Bloys premiered a new trailer for True Detective season 4 at Code 2023.
It stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. It looks excellent — and I’ve embedded the trailer below.
True Detective: Night Country kicks off on January 14th.
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Don’t expect federation to come to Artifact’s new posts feature — but Mike Krieger likes some of what federation can do.
“I love the idea of portability,” he said at Code, but has some hesitations with what specific standards can do right now. We’ll see if Threads can pull federation off.
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Artifact is focused a little less on headlines now.
According to co-founder Mike Krieger at Code 2023, he’s a little more interested in things like long reads or product reviews. That makes some sense given the algorithmic focus of Artifact — it’s not quite as focused on up-to-the-second news.
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Posts about Teenage Engineering are popular thing on Artifact, apparently.
That’s according to Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Artifact, who is onstage at Code 2023. I get it!
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