doing a writeup like Jane Manchun Wong on an app that Jane Manchun Wong worked on
off-topic, but since she's joining Meta to work on Threads, I guess we proooobably won't be getting as many of her info-dumps? kind of a bummer, love her stuff
How the new Threads app is made
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Re: How the new Threads app is made
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The accusation that Threads is using stolen code is one of the more embarrassing accusation for Musk that he's made. Not as embarrassing for Musk as the fabricated pedophile accusations, but definitely incredibly cringe.
The idea of stealing code for large distributed systems build on entirely different underlying compute architectures just shows how technologically clueless Musk is. Might as well measure productivity by lines of code written. Major pointy-haired boss vibes.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it's that sinister. Time based sorting is a bad day 1 feature since nobody has much of a follow graph yet. Forcing the algorithm is a good way to make sure your feed feels "full" even if you're starting from zero. I don't like the algorithm either, it's full of brands and spammy meme pages that lifted their content over from IG. But in terms of cold-starting a social graph, I get it. Plus they already s…
I thought it pulled your social graph from Instagram.
It offers to, but nobody has posted anything yet, so a follower-only timeline will need a week or two to get content.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook isnt going to be nice about this. They know they are in a strong position here. Expect an addicting algorithm that is fueled by ragebait (and if its anything like IG, coombait). The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows how easy it is to sort by time, especially when stakes are low. Its anti-consumer from day 1. The surge in people are…
What is 'coombait'?
Pictures of your female friends at the beach.
If you leave Facebook for long enough and are a man, it'll start sending you notifications anytime a woman you follow posts something. (I don't know what it sends women.)
That said, Instagram is actually not run like Facebook in my experience, which is most of the reason Threads is part of IG.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
A strong position? They are going head-to-head with one of the largest social networks and their odds are... OK at best. They have every incentive to make their new service as desirable and accessible as possible (until such time they are too big for people to leave and then they can do whatever they want).
> They are going head-to-head with one of the largest social networks Twitter has 450 million monthly active users at a generous guess. Facebook's MAU: 2.98 billion Instagram's MAU: 1 billion Twitter, is an (un)surprisingly small fry when it comes to social networks. Unlike most, Facebook actually knows how to build a social network, and grow it.
> Twitter, is an (un)surprisingly small fry when it comes to social networks.
By active users, yes Twitter is smaller than many of the other big networks. But by influence, Twitter is one of, if not the biggest fish in the pond. @[username] is everywhere in advertising and news programs. People don't break news on Facebook and Instagram. There's a reason Musk and his backers paid $ 44 billion for Twitter, and it wasn't the revenue per user. It was buying influence.
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short form social media is an industrial farm of mental illness. it surrounds you with histrionics with all the time possible to spare, minimal commitment and inundates your monkey-brained need for peer approval with their low standards. leaving leftist online spaces was the decision that had the most positive impact on my life. any community based around a struggle will have a hard time not being a pit of vindictive…
I don't think leftists are really that associated with short-form writing, haven't you seen the jokes about "leftist memes"?[0]
They were on Twitter because they left Tumblr, which was long-form.
[0] the joke is they have pages of text on them
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#57can someone explain to me why this is a separate app and not just a view in Instagram? IG has the potential to be Meta's Wechat and this seems like it does that journey a disservice.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's really hard to hear what they say over the sound of 70M+ downloads. Actions speak a lot louder than words. "The customer is always right in matters of taste."
> 70M+ downloads Downloads are one thing. People are curious. Will they keep it?
72MB isn't stopping people downloading it. If they later decide to delete, it will be because the UX is bad, or lack of content, or something like that. Nobody says "I use this every day but I need 72MB, delete" and nobody says "this app sucks but it's only 10MB, might as well keep it".
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#59> Threads has one of the largest plugins we’ve ever seen. BarcelonaShareExtension is 81 MB. For context, the largest Instagram plugin - InstagramNotificationExtension is 23.5 MB. TheInstagramShareExtension is 5.6 MB Out of a 244.2 MB App on iOS.
Why the heck would they need an extension to share "Barcelona"
Are we talking the whole city map or like wut
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#60> Threads has one of the largest plugins we’ve ever seen. BarcelonaShareExtension is 81 MB. For context, the largest Instagram plugin - InstagramNotificationExtension is 23.5 MB. TheInstagramShareExtension is 5.6 MB Out of a 244.2 MB App on iOS.
Why the heck would they need an extension to share "Barcelona" Are we talking the whole city map or like wut
"Barcelona" is the code name of the Threads project. The Threads Android app is called "com.instagram.barcelona".