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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by fortran77 »

tentacleuno wrote: post #222
paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

Agreed. Bluesky had a tone of hype back in its infancy, and now you never hear about it. They definitely missed their opportunity.

Bluesky, even with all the hype, is very disappointing. Days go by before I see a new post. And they invited an odd bunch of unhinged, very-online people. It would do them better to have done more “normals” there.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by asadotzler »

School-Cotton wrote: post #103
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really because weirdly you have to start your followers from zero. Which seems like a misstep because now my "Threads" account has 10% of the followers of my IG/Twitter.

Bizarre, I thought the whole point was to piggyback on the Instagram social graph.

It is, they make it super easy to appropriate that into threads and will no doubt do even more over time up to and including, I suspect, creating threads accounts for all Insta users and promoting threads content to Insta users and vice versa.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by asadotzler »

lionkor wrote: post #169
somsak2 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

were they paying for their account? you can't expect much if you're not a paying customer.

hundreds or thousands of hours of ad watch time, plus content which made others watch ads, ...

Ignore that dude. This "you're not paying for it" bullshit needs to end. Yes, we are paying for it. We are paying with our attention and our sharecropping labor. We give them a mind to infect and they sell that to advertisers. We give them our content and they use that to attract other minds to sell to advertisers. Any suggestion that those aren't a valuable payments shows a complete lack of understanding of the last 20 years of online "progress" and also just makes them look foolish.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

#234

Post by asadotzler »

somsak2 wrote: post #150
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #104

This creates an interesting dynamic. 1. You've trapped people who don't want Threads on Threads, where they can complain about it. 2. And meanwhile people curious about Threads can't try it because they don't want to be stuck having it. Let's see how it works out.

you're not trapped, you can deactivate a threads account without impact on Instagram

deactivate? does that claw back all my Threads content and metadata from Meta? i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess "no".

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by ipsum2 »

Solvency wrote: post #225
paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

Why has everyone on here been comparing Threads to Twitter when threads.com literally says its a Slack alternative for makers ? The product has absolutely nothing to do with a Twitter style social network. Edit: lol so FAANG just steals any and all actively used product names now. Got it.

Instagram Threads was a (different) thing back in 2019: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagr.... Threads.com looks like it came out in 2022?

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by ipsum2 »

paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

Google Plus (invite only) failed in a similar way.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by ipsum2 »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #214
crazygringo wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, you can't delete your account on Google Sheets but leave Google Docs intact. So it really depends on whether you think you have a separate Threads account, or just an Instagram account that Threads uses. It seems like the latter is the case though.

It's not about the login details. It's about removing the content.

Following the same analogy, it's like removing spreadsheets from Google Sheets.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by Pufferbo »

paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

I feel the same way. I read one thread where someone was praising the app’s “refined” design. My first thought was, “What are they talking about. The UX is refined because there’s literally nothing here”. It’s just one feature, the MVP, posts/replies.

It would not surprise me if two weeks ago they were not planning on this release and t was only the recent drama that influenced them to release.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by galleywest200 »

fortran77 wrote: post #231
tentacleuno wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Bluesky had a tone of hype back in its infancy, and now you never hear about it. They definitely missed their opportunity.

Bluesky, even with all the hype, is very disappointing. Days go by before I see a new post. And they invited an odd bunch of unhinged, very-online people. It would do them better to have done more “normals” there.

This is the opposite of my experience, my feeds refresh constantly. Are you just looking at just who you are following, or did you subscribe to any of the custom feeds like "What's Hot Classic" or "Gardening"?

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

#240

Post by xwdv »

paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

I finally got an invite code to Bluesky the other day.

There is absolutely no content. Not as in “blank page nothing here” type of no content, I mean as in the “open the fridge, look around, and decide there’s nothing to eat” type of no content.

Meanwhile, Threads is content rich and there’s already people I know posting cool stuff to see and interact with.

The result, is that I don’t give a fuck about Bluesky, and I’m not going to bother spreading invite codes.

If I get at least 20 upvotes on this comment though maybe I’ll consider it since it means the interest is there.

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