>This suggests that their sign-in experience isn’t native and they are showing a webview.
what is the benefit of using webview instead native for the sign-in?
How the new Threads app is made
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Re: How the new Threads app is made
#222I'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 don't know, i think this could be authentic. People have been mad at elon for a while now and there is a blood in the water - i think mainstream is interested in this drama and the new contender. I think tech news is relatively quiet on this front because quite frankly, twitter is not that interesting as a product technically speaking. This is a political story not a technical one, and it ties into so many beats th…
Agreed. I think people underestimate the extent to which major and influencers have left Twitter entirely due to sociocultural and political events. Never mind the fact that Twitter has 700m users v the many billions more that Meta has.
There’s a strong likelihood Threads exists as a Twitter alternative but not necessarily a direct competitor, simply because of demographics.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, i think this could be authentic. People have been mad at elon for a while now and there is a blood in the water - i think mainstream is interested in this drama and the new contender. I think tech news is relatively quiet on this front because quite frankly, twitter is not that interesting as a product technically speaking. This is a political story not a technical one, and it ties into so many beats th…
Are people outside of the tech industry and Politics really concerned at all with Elon or Twitter? My anecdotal experience is that the only people I interact with where this comes up are either people who seen to be parroting a story from 24 hour news or a techy that abandoned Twitter shortly after the purchase (many of have since whom quietly returned).
My entire friend circle is outside of tech and hate politics, and are tired of Twitter imploding.
They all want something new, or at least Twitter before Elon.
Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots, and there’s nothing but misinformation (videos from other riots) spammed consistently, that have no community notes, and have nothing but racist twitter blue users pushed to the top of the replies.
It’s creating a huge fog of war when just trying to figure out what’s going on.
It’s like all the moderation systems have just gone offline.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
My less cynical viewpoint is that it just isn't that interesting. It's a bare-bones Twitter clone made by Meta. There's no interesting new technology to discuss, no open source angle, no discussion on the company founder that hasn't been done 100 times. HN has plenty of discussions about interesting Meta projects - Quest, React, the metaverse, financial discussions, etc. I just don't think there's much to grip people…
Nobody has covered the interesting angle -- this is the first time I've seen social media companies launch direct competitors, rather than a novel way to capture attention. At least, the first time in a while
They have all been doing this from the start.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#225Apparently Jetpack Compose is an Android copy of SwiftUI? https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose Only two HN threads with comments discussing this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32255709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284517
Both Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI came out around the same time, in 2019 I think. It's probably more correct to say that both frameworks copied React Native and made it more "native"
... and React Native copied the declarative approach of React, which copied WPF, which copied ... (no, we're definitely not the first ones to do declarative UIs here in 2023).
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are people outside of the tech industry and Politics really concerned at all with Elon or Twitter? My anecdotal experience is that the only people I interact with where this comes up are either people who seen to be parroting a story from 24 hour news or a techy that abandoned Twitter shortly after the purchase (many of have since whom quietly returned).
My entire friend circle is outside of tech and hate politics, and are tired of Twitter imploding. They all want something new, or at least Twitter before Elon. Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots, and there’s nothing but misinformation (videos from other riots) spammed consistently, that have no community notes, and have nothing but racist twitter blue users pushed to the top of the repli…
Given twitter is has only ever been used by a small subset of the population, I'd argue anyone aware of the twitter drama is in something of a bubble.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are people outside of the tech industry and Politics really concerned at all with Elon or Twitter? My anecdotal experience is that the only people I interact with where this comes up are either people who seen to be parroting a story from 24 hour news or a techy that abandoned Twitter shortly after the purchase (many of have since whom quietly returned).
My entire friend circle is outside of tech and hate politics, and are tired of Twitter imploding. They all want something new, or at least Twitter before Elon. Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots, and there’s nothing but misinformation (videos from other riots) spammed consistently, that have no community notes, and have nothing but racist twitter blue users pushed to the top of the repli…
Honest question, as someone who doesn't use Twitter: why don't you just read the papers?
For the specific case of the Paris riots, you could check on Le Figaro (right-leaning) and Le Monde (left-leaning) – yest, both of them.
I find that following two newspapers allows me to get a balanced-enough take on current events. No need to try to decipher some ultra-short quip from random people and infer the 90% of missing context on my own.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
My entire friend circle is outside of tech and hate politics, and are tired of Twitter imploding. They all want something new, or at least Twitter before Elon. Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots, and there’s nothing but misinformation (videos from other riots) spammed consistently, that have no community notes, and have nothing but racist twitter blue users pushed to the top of the repli…
Honest question, as someone who doesn't use Twitter: why don't you just read the papers? For the specific case of the Paris riots, you could check on Le Figaro (right-leaning) and Le Monde (left-leaning) – yest, both of them. I find that following two newspapers allows me to get a balanced-enough take on current events. No need to try to decipher some ultra-short quip from random people and infer the 90% of missing c…
I can see the sweet spot for community-driven/social journalism:
- Get updates between the new cycles. If you can get the scores for the football match in tomorrow’s paper, why even need to see the game?
- Get more targeted information, i.e. my favorite pastry shop is where some stuff went down, was it impacted? Someone might have commented on that/taken photos nearby.
- Get an even more unbiased opinion. Both the right and left leaning papers might have the same sponsor they happen to not make disparaging remarks about, or the local government might be able to quash things.
Then again wherever you have eyeballs looking you’ll have people trying to push an agenda in the raw feed, whether it’s political, economic or clout chasing.
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes > the priority is the mobile apps, but we are working on www https://www.threads.net/t/CuWp3eMNE8h/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ...
Is threads.net the official website? This is the first time I actually look at anything that is on the Instagram Threads. Seems a lot like the comments under an Instagram post, without the picture / video on top. Also the logo on the top of the page just toggles dark mode / light mode, instead of bringing me to any kind of home page where I can explore more discussions. Weird.
Yeah, threads.com is taken by a slack competitor
Re: How the new Threads app is made
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, i think this could be authentic. People have been mad at elon for a while now and there is a blood in the water - i think mainstream is interested in this drama and the new contender. I think tech news is relatively quiet on this front because quite frankly, twitter is not that interesting as a product technically speaking. This is a political story not a technical one, and it ties into so many beats th…
Are people outside of the tech industry and Politics really concerned at all with Elon or Twitter? My anecdotal experience is that the only people I interact with where this comes up are either people who seen to be parroting a story from 24 hour news or a techy that abandoned Twitter shortly after the purchase (many of have since whom quietly returned).
> Are people outside of the tech industry and Politics really concerned at all with Elon or Twitter?
Are people who dont care about politics the target audience of the mainstream "news"? I'm sure lots of people dont care about twitter drama but i think the people who read the publications talking about twitter drama are firmly in the camp of people who care, which is why said publications are talking about it.