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Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by novok »

astrange wrote: post #54
Freedom2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think that happens because females tend to use social media more, or out of your social graph females are the ones who do. Im a straight partnered male and i dont get coombait because i dont find the content interesting and very quickly i get cute pets and science stuff and half of the suggested people are other male friends

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by crossroadsguy »

ryandrake wrote: post #96

I'm kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more "submarine" marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You're not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta's clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It's rea…

I am just wondering what this app is (do not have an Instagram account so can’t try it; I had deleted mine, so not creating one). How the fuck everyone is talking about an app on HN that’s is Facebook one of the richest tech companies with one of the biggest tech pool out there which is just essentially a copy of Twitter.

It’s like kids got a new toy. Any toy. So they gotta play with it.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by granzymes »

ryandrake wrote: post #96

I'm kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more "submarine" marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You're not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta's clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It's rea…

It’s been downloaded close to 100 million times at this point and has blown past every growth record to date. I think it’s completely logical for every mainstream news site to mention it.

I honestly can’t imagine a source like the New York Times not having an article. Twitter’s threatened lawsuit alone merited coverage.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by Arch485 »

Infinitesimus wrote: post #86
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #72

Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corporate cushion team.

> A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. > Only thing complicated is scale So, a solo dev cannot, in fact, pull this off.

Serverless will handle scale, if your pockets are deep enough

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by granzymes »

gravitronic wrote: post #144
elwell wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta is not the target market for React Native.

In your opinion who is?

A team that doesn’t have the resources for both Android and iOS experts. You won’t get as polished of a product but you’ll get it done with less work.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by badrequest »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #104
ryandrake wrote: post #96

I'm kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more "submarine" marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You're not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta's clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It's rea…

HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it's hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone com…

I think it's more that the HN crowd cannot stand to think, much less utter the phrase "you've gotta hand it to Mark Zuckerberg and crew." That's at least the feeling I have to get over when I praise Threads.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by badrequest »

hospitalJail wrote: post #12
wbobeirne wrote: post #4

Have there been any public plans for a fully featured web app? Having it be read-only on the web is a non-starter for me.

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…

I discovered I didn't have to take anything you've written seriously when you used the term "coombait."

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

badrequest wrote: post #147
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it's hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone com…

I think it's more that the HN crowd cannot stand to think, much less utter the phrase "you've gotta hand it to Mark Zuckerberg and crew." That's at least the feeling I have to get over when I praise Threads.

I think it's important to remember that virality can be fickle and Threads may go the way of Clubhouse. We really don't know where it'll land up. Among Us was the hit game of the pandemic and now it's not.

But maybe the crowd here should be a bit more humble and restrained by their biases, it's a useful art to practice. When I first saw YouTube in late 2005 I told all my friends that it would go nowhere because Flash was a resource intensive, proprietary technology. Now I pay for YouTube Premium.

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