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Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by laserdancepony »

extr wrote: post #54

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…

> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it. Elon is egging it on, it's a complete mess.

Censoring the aforementioned topics does not make them go away, time has shown that. And Megacorps controlling the public Overton window has just lead to society boiling and rumbling in the dark.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#82

Post by offices »

JSavageOne wrote: post #49

I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…

>It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application

It doesn't even have a login-switch feature. They didn't release a web application because this is the M of MVPs.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#84

Post by yorwba »

extr wrote: post #64
dan1234 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deny access to contacts and push notifications, use DNS based ad blocker should take care of those problems. Are people actually typing thought provoking, in-depth analysis into Twitter?

Twitter is full of interesting niche people talking about their favorite subjects. For example, there is no better way to follow the war in Ukraine.

Based on reading the Institute for the Study of War's daily updates, I got the impression that they rely a lot more on Telegram. E.g. the most recent post https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens... has 90 t.me links and 22 twitter.com links.

Since for the ISW folks, following the war in Ukraine is kind of their job, I think that's a pretty good approximation of the two platforms' relative importance in that area.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#85

Post by patrickmcnamara »

jmiskovic wrote: post #76
brnt wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

user =/= user account. One user can have multiple accounts.

Don't they aggressively fight this? I think all your accounts can get banned if you use multiple accounts. I know they demand a working phone number and other identification data. Not saying there are no multiple accounts, just that it is not a wide-spread thing like on reddit/twitter/mastodon.

Facebook itself is very aggressive about the one account thing. But Instagram is not. It's common enough within my friend group to have multiple accounts, and bots are also kinda common.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#86

Post by vidarh »

laserdancepony wrote: post #81
extr wrote: post #54

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…

> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it. Elon is egging it on, it's a complete mess. Censoring the aforementioned topics does not make them go away, time has shown that. And Megacorps controlling the public Overton window has just lead to society boiling and rumbling in the dark.

There's a vast gap between censoring them and shoving them in the face of people who don't want them. The "For You" tab has a tendency of big swings in the type of content it shows, possibly based on what you engage with, which often results in it swinging towards content that angers you because that often leads to the lengthiest discussions. Getting it "back on track" to show stuff you want to see afterwards can be tedious.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by ftxbro »

extr wrote: post #54

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…

> "I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked."

This is just some growing pains as Elon Musk is working on improving it. This is why he is so visionary, the ones before him didn't dare to go through challenges such as this one, so it shows why they needed him to step in and be the adult in the room.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#88

Post by poisonborz »

KSPAtlas wrote: post #34
easyThrowaway wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A twitter clone with a different, less impulsive weirdo CEO at the helm.

And attempting to EEE the fediverse out of existence

"We plan to support ActivityPub"

"They want to kill ActivityPub!"

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#89

Post by boo-ga-ga »

extr wrote: post #54

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…

Exactly! I'm sure lots of people will stay on Twitter. But ad buyers, celebrities and brands are not very interested in the niche communities, and thus Twitter as business will be extremely hurt.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

#90

Post by gardaani »

imgabe wrote: post #70
intsunny wrote: post #9

Given that Threads requires an app, and the app requires obscene permissions (health, etc) ... its hard not to think that Meta can't escape their set ways and this app is doomed to fail. The app serves Meta more than it does the public.

Where does Threads require access to health? I installed it on iPhone and it never mentioned anything about that. That is not required at all.

Have a look at the App Privacy for the Threads app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

"The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, Diagnostics, Other Data"

You agreed to give all that data to Meta when you downloaded the app from the App Store.

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