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It's no worse than obsessively refreshing Hacker News on your PinePhone.
This is slander.
I check HN on my Librem 5
Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
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#92I feel like there’s a chicken and egg problem for Threads: it uses your existing Instagram social graph to populate your Threads account. Of course FB is going to do that otherwise they lose a massive edge against any competitor. But for me at least my Twitter is a very different social space to my Instagram and there’s very little crossover.
So Threads looks like it’ll be text posts with your Instagram friends. Which is fine, I suppose. But not a Twitter replacement.
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#93> @zuck seeing that freaks face made me physically shudder. If they were smart they would distance this product from him as much as possible. it should be painfully obvious that he is toxic for this and any brand. pay him whatever, let him stay in charge, but please for the love of god STOP PUTTING him as the face of anything.
I dunno, he's kinda growing on me. If people can like Elon, why can't they like the Zuck? Zuck is clearly more level headed than Elon, which to me makes him more likeable. Embracing the zuck monikor was a real power move, given that up until this point most people use that name in a disparaging manner :D
"Dumb fucks" pretty much sealed it for me, haha.
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#94I wonder if there'll be as much right wing propaganda as on Facebook video
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I opened it and immediately saw a post from GaryVee. Who was sanctimoniously instructing people to 'collectively be more civil'. Not a platform I want to use, but the App seemed decent; smooth UI animations, clean interface, simple onboarding with an overall decent UX. I think Instagram people who are Twitter curious will jump on it. If they can get Celeb style Tweets and memes without having to interact with the Gar…
My Twitter is full of two things - people doing exactly the same thing they were doing a year, two years, three years ago, and people saying how Twitter is such a dumpster fire now and everything is so bad and it's the end and Twitter will be dead soon (but they're still on it). I'm not saying Twitter is going to be around 20 years from now, but I do think the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
A game I play held a retweeting campaign[1] (common thing for games) yesterday, and it successfully passed their usual threshold (70k retweets) like any other time they held one.
That was indication to me that claims of Twitter's death are, indeed, greatly exaggerated as always.
I don't doubt some people are getting rate limited, but I also have no doubt now that those people are the vocal minority while everyone else keeps on tweeting.
[1]: https://twitter.com/fgoproject/status/1676426390625812481
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#96I understand the push to use the app for collecting my data for ads and what not but good lord is it too difficult to keep the web channels open? Why is this not available on browser :(
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#97I'm very skeptical that this will succeed. As with other extremely hyped social medias (anyone remember Clubhouse?) it's already filled with influencers and e-celebs trying to get in early, but these people always poison the well with insincere, low-quality, monetization-oriented content. AFAIK, every successful social media platform grew more or less organically and only had these folks latch on later (usually causi…
I agree, but I also think that, at this moment, the conditions are right. People are hungry for a twitter alternative and this could lead to a lot of sincere and authentic users joining Threads.
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#98I'm very skeptical that this will succeed. As with other extremely hyped social medias (anyone remember Clubhouse?) it's already filled with influencers and e-celebs trying to get in early, but these people always poison the well with insincere, low-quality, monetization-oriented content. AFAIK, every successful social media platform grew more or less organically and only had these folks latch on later (usually causi…
I’m amazed they didn’t provide a feed of only people you follow. Not doing so made the garbage influencer stuff inevitable.
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#99Whats the consensus over on Mastadon at the moment? Will the major Mastodon instances block federation with Threads purely out of spite I wonder.
There's a good dynamic if the eternal September people stay on Twitter/Threads, letting the smaller networks remain smaller and worthwhile.
Re: Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
#100That feels oddly low. It was released at 5ish PM PST on a Wednesday, and considering they have literally all of Instagram + Facebook's userbase to push it on, it seems pretty low. The "sign up" was also just a "log in with FB/Instagram" button where the form was already auto-filled. So it's not like people had to convert, it's pretty much about as pure a product-market-fit test you can get. Discoverability is also pr…
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