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Not got there in one day but there are now 20M+ priv/pub keys on the Nostr protocol, which is much more exciting tech than anything Meta would be able to come up with. https://stats.nostr.band/#total_users
Threads must be doing something really square with user data if they could not start in Europe because of violation of rather toothless GDPR regulation (as if someone really dig into all those possible settings instead of clicking ok on the popup).
To quote https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-... :
A number of companies, including Meta, have self-designated themselves as “gatekeepers” under the DMA rules, which will potentially make them subject to stricter regulations around data sharing and giving preference to their own products.
Gatekeepers are banned from combining users’ personal data across different platforms under the DMA.
Threads is designed to let users follow the same accounts they’ve connected with on Instagram and keep their Instagram usernames, helping the social media giant leverage its billions of users to quickly gain scale.
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…
Threads is banned in the EU due to GDPR issues. We'll have to see who backs down on that first. Are we going to go back to country specific social networks like Orkut? VK? (which is still going)
It doesn't seem to me that logging in to your account from multiple apps should be a GDPR issue. Lots of companies have that kind of setup where they offer separate mobile apps for different user roles.
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…
The internet is a strange beast. Getting 50 million users is easy. Monetising them is hard.
I stopped being impressed with headlines that boast about sign ups once I had this revelation.
Half my feed is filled with people sharing their Threads profiles. While I don’t think Meta has the culture to foster the kind of chaotic insanity that goes on at Twitter, Musk better up his game - this is a far more serious mainstream contender than the Fediverse.
Whatever happens, the fediverse will be fine. It's not dependent on VCs, ads, influencers, scammers, etc. All it needs is people willing to set up servers and host some users. It's open source so as long as there are people willing to work on that, it continues to exist.
Unless I've missed it - there is no website. So you have to access via a device which will leak enough information that you will be easily identifiable by the platform and those that the platform gives or is forced to give access to. Surely that makes the platform dead for the world to safely discuss anything vaguely controversial ( ie anything that matters )?
There is a website for viewing tweets/messages/whatever they are called, see for example https://www.threads.net/t/CuVd5ibvscQ/ https://www.threads.net/ does not (yet) show anything useful though.
Right now the www.threads.net landing page is awful and slow and entirely targeted at getting people to load the app, but your direct link shows a bit more promise and obviously doing a decent web site is something Meta could do if they so wished.
Half my feed is filled with people sharing their Threads profiles. While I don’t think Meta has the culture to foster the kind of chaotic insanity that goes on at Twitter, Musk better up his game - this is a far more serious mainstream contender than the Fediverse.
The fediverse's slow and steady approach might be long term more sustainable than VCs burning billions in repeated attempts to "conquer" the users. This one has the distinct smell of desperation around it. I don't think even Meta itself is that convinced it will work. Whatever happens, the fediverse will be fine. It's not dependent on VCs, ads, influencers, scammers, etc. All it needs is people willing to set up serv…
The Fediverse requires money and donations to continue their uptime and it will get difficult for them to stay relevant if they cannot handle the influx of users posting on Threads when they federate.
Meta is already making money and is insanely profitable and doesn't need VCs. Essentially they have won social networks and have already signed NDAs with Mastodon admins of the largest instances to federate with them anyway.
This integration only benefits Meta and Threads and at this rate Threads will be larger than the entire Fediverse and will be the Fediverse.
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> "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.
I assume this post is sarcasm - it certainly reads like one.
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you are so far in the niche in today's internet userbase it will not matter
User base if the West, but not predominantly the world
Many citizens of many countries can't afford a laptop or desktop setup, go to a small village in Thailand or something and they'll all have cheap Chinese Android phones as their connection to the local outside worlds.
Half my feed is filled with people sharing their Threads profiles. While I don’t think Meta has the culture to foster the kind of chaotic insanity that goes on at Twitter, Musk better up his game - this is a far more serious mainstream contender than the Fediverse.