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Agreed. Bluesky had a tone of hype back in its infancy, and now you never hear about it. They definitely missed their opportunity.
Still hear about it, but its either “No one is there” from people on it or “I can’t get an invite” from people not.
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…
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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?
b) Threads.com raises Seed round back in Oct, 2018. [2]
c) Meta acquires Meta Threads trademark in Nov, 2021.
d) Threads as a trademark itself has been widely used well before Threads.com. [3]
[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company...
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'm not sure if this is the reason, but BlueSky doesn't appear to have a trust/safety moderation team that can operate at full scale. I mean, neither does twitter, but Jack understands that some people do want that. On the other hand, it's much easier for Meta to launch since they already have those people in place for Instagram and Facebook.
He is definitely sympathetic to unfettered free speech and allowing misinformation to proliferate.
I wonder though why did they use IG platform and not FB platform? Has FB platform grown so bad that it can't be used for implementing new things anymore?
I also imagine their accounts infrastructure is more app-driven on Instagram and was easier to integrate into a new platform without inheriting ~20 years (wow!) of tech debt from FB.
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…
A social network being invite-only is such an obvious non-starter that I genuinely can't imagine the conversation that went into that decision. Assuming the basic underlying tech works more often that not (and ideally some story for community moderation), there's literally nothing I want from a Twitter competitor other than having everyone on it . My interest in a Twitter competitor that is invite-only is and will al…
Speaking from experience working on a social site with loads of signup flow experiments: the results are consistently wild. It's no competition on all the normally-valued metrics like interactions and retention.
*for some degree of "know" anyway. Better in most cases than "the news talked about this tweeter thing"
(edit: I do think they may have missed what might be the biggest boat sailing party, which was probably a mistake. But invite-only is quite reasonable.)
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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"?
This looks like it’s purely about gaming signup metrics for Threads. Make it easy to try, create a huge disincentive to cancel, and suddenly you have a wildly successful, “sticky” app.
Similar to the strategy for Google+ back in the day. It didn't work back then, big chances are it won't work now, either.
It's pretty much the complete opposite of Google+.
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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?
a) Meta Threads which is unrelated to Meta, Threads or apps is trademarked in May, 2018. [1] b) Threads.com raises Seed round back in Oct, 2018. [2] c) Meta acquires Meta Threads trademark in Nov, 2021. d) Threads as a trademark itself has been widely used well before Threads.com. [3] [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company... [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html [3] ht…