Earlier quoted context omitted.
And attempting to EEE the fediverse out of existence
"We plan to support ActivityPub" "They want to kill ActivityPub!"
Well, we've seen this playbook before with XMPP.
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#162I 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…
> Nobody has a better track record ... than Meta
* Data breach of 533M users
* Record-breaking €1.2bn fine in Europe for illegal data transfers
* Record-breaking $5bn FTC fine for privacy violations
* Psychological experiments run on unconsenting users in 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
* Cambridge Analytica
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#163Given 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.
Doomed to fail in some communities. Think general public: the people who just accept all permission requests no matter what, who don't care if there's another app to use since their only device is their phone, excluding their work PC.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We plan to support ActivityPub" "They want to kill ActivityPub!"
Well, we've seen this playbook before with XMPP.
If a protocol is killed because a single megacorp starts to use it and then drops it, then who's at fault? XMPP was just a hard to use, outdated protocol.
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#165I 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…
Facebook isn't hostile and they don't have moderation issues? Are you kidding? I also like the bit on how you dismiss wholesale IP theft from a large corporation because you have issues with Musk.
Wait, what IP are we talking here?
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#166I 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 billions in ad revenue hasn't materialised for Twitter which is why Musk is becoming increasingly unhinged. 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.
Musk made a series of anti-"brand" decisions which caused a lot of advertisers to leave.
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#167I 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 think you're spot on here. Some very obvious features are missing, but for a v1 launch the app runs smooth, feels clean, is easy to get started, and has a jovial early internet feel. Meta will ship most every feature the average Twitter user would want in the next month or so and then it's game over. Aside, it's amazing how Elon's antics over the last year (or many years) have somehow made Zuck seem both personable…
What about the network externalities?
People are on twitter because everyone is on Twitter, not because twitter has better features...
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry thats just bs. The required psrmissions of the app is worrying. Imho the app only need 'internet and browse internal files' permission. Not location, device info and other sensitive data.
If the GP had given "access to location" as an example of the obscene permissions, I would not have replied. That's indeed a permission that the app requests (but AFAIK doesn't require or automatically get!), and people can judge for themselves whether requesting that permission is reasonable or not. But the GP didn't do that. They gave access to health data as the example, and that's just not a permission that the a…
The Register has a story about Threads and the permissions it asks for, "Health and Fitness" is indeed on the list. Honestly, it looks like it simply asks for every conceivable permission (what is "Sensitive Info" or "Other Data"?) There's a screenshot at the bottom of the article with the full list.
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#169threads.net returns a blank page for me on Firefox on Linux. Works fine on Chromium and Brave. Oh well, I guess no threads for me.
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#170So it is like Mastodon, but they steal all your data so they can sell it and comes with ads? Are people in some kind of Stockholm syndrome with getting their data harvested by mega corporations?