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I 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. Whic…
I had a different reaction. "Oh they started with my Insta list which isn't what I want. I'll keep them for now and slowly replace them with stuff I use Twitter for." In other words, not a big deal to me and not something that immediately stood out as being an issue.
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Same with the App Store. Apparently the app is going to collect health and wellness data about me. Wonderful.
What does that even mean though? Firstly if you don't use Apple's Health app it probably means nothing. And if you do, maybe an iOS dev could give us some insights, but I assume Apple doesn't provide an API to just freely peep at all your Health data. It doesn't even let apps access your photos, or push notifications, or location without a runtime consent prompt. There's no way Apple will just tell any app that wants…
All I really want to know is did Zuck reserve his username, or did he try to sign up like the rest of us.
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Text posts with your Meta friends sounds like Facebook from 2010. What is old is new again, I suppose.
Facebook minus all your annoying boomer parents/relatives (who have no idea what Instagram is or how to install an app) and their political posts and screeds sounds amazing.
For a community of entrepreneurs who understand iteration to find product-market fit, the comments here are very shortsighted. I'm pretty sure they won't age well. No competitor could ask for a better time to launch with Twitter and Reddit users disaffected. FB have the experience, reach, resources and timing to win here. Their biggest problems will be other well-funded attempts, but I can't think of any other blue-c…
I don't get the response either. But I've def seen HN folks react without any sort of logic to things so maybe this is one of those times...?
> No competitor could ask for a better time to launch with Twitter and Reddit users disaffected.
I immediately noticed it's branded with Instagram and not Facebook which I think is smart. Insta is seen as "for old people" by the gen Z crowd (that's a direct quote from a friend's kid) but not nearly as old as the FB crowd. I suspect that the disaffected Reddit crowd and the Twitter users more likely fit this demographic.
With that said, my god I would be so happy if something overtook Twitter. As much as I'm not a fan of Meta, Twitter is on the bottom of my list.
I wonder how much the threads.net domain cost Updated Date: 2023-04-07T13:53:29Z Creation Date: 1997-05-27T23:00:00Z
It’s really strange, and awesome, to see them launch on a .net domain. I have a decent (8 letter) .com with the .net and others to match. I want to build something on the .net, so I hope this builds some awareness for the TLD. I would love to hear an explanation of why they chose a .net. I always think of it as an OG TLD that throws back to a time when the internet didn’t suck, but I doubt that’s it. Lol. It can’t be…
.net is almost as valuable as .com right now, and that additional value .com has is dropping over time.
Search Engines don't care and people have normalized the extended TLD space since the 2010s, since URLs in general are just scary to non-technical people anyway. Even with an aging (on average) population, we will have all grown up with this mindset.
^thread.net (not threads.net) was a webhost with cheap shared hosting for PHP, Perl, etc in the late 1990s
I 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. Whic…
The only thing I care about on Twitter is the emergency services that use it. I can no longer access their info now that Twitter requires a sign-in and it would be nice to have that access.
The permissions[1] the android app wants are rather terrifying. Think I'll pass. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.instagr...
Which permission specifically? They all seem valid for what the app does (and most are not present in app or disabled by default) Location - for providing localized content (disabled by default) Personal Info - for providing log in and personalizing content (questionable) Financial Info: For in app payment/subscription (disabled by default) Health - for personalizing content (not present in app and could be mislabele…