Did users "sign up" for Threads, or was it some kind of forced install for existing Facebook users?
Threads users down by more than a half
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#132- Not letting you see just posts from your follows sucked. - Building up a good group of people to follow takes a long time - A lot of the people who I follow on Instagram I do not want to follow on Twitter. - Just felt like an inorganic extension of Instagram. Like the difference between a fake real estate developer created neighborhood and a real one.
they've added a Following feed (only posts from your follows). it's pretty nifty and best of all there's no toxic users from Twitter (qanon, conspiracy theorists, extremists, white nationalists, taliban)
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#133I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client. That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent. Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability. It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram. They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads. Fa…
Wasn't Instagram iPhone-only for a very long time?
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#134It seems to have enough people that it has some legs. I am really looking forward to a web version of it, but otherwise enjoy it, despite some growing pains. Edit I'm here: https://www.threads.net/@davidnwelton Edit2 If I think about it some, the biggest drawback about Threads for me is swapping one egocentric billionaire who is rapidly going off the rails for another who is, for the moment, more stable, but has stil…
I think the lack of a web client is a big reason. Also, I'm not sure if there's an API for it. If there isn't, that would need to be implemented.
I kind of doubt it will get an API. Seems like Reddit and Twitter have come to regret how much power an API gives to users to sidesteps or whatever they don't like about the platform.
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#136I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client. That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent. Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability. It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram. They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads. Fa…
Wasn't Instagram iPhone-only for a very long time?
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#137I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client. That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent. Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability. It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram. They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads. Fa…
Adam Mosseri mentioned their intentions to get an MVP going. It actually runs smoothly and iterating quickly. Web version probably coming in few weeks.
It's already surpassed Mastodon and Bluesky easily.
and there's no conspiracy theorists on there.. like qanon or white nationalists. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...
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#138I don’t use Twitter because I like Twitter, but because that’s where the people that I like to interact with (mostly writers) are. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. Threads failed the smell test early on because it started out with algorithmic feed only and the algori…
> Threads failed the smell test early on because it started out with algorithmic feed That was probably a wise decision to seed it with something for people to look at and interact with so they didn't just sign in and see a blank page. The random influencers and other people "go away" pretty quickly if you start following and interacting with people you care more about.
Agree, they rolled out the "Following" tab and it's a ghost town. Shipping it with the algorithmic feed at least made it look like a lively, if somehwat chaotic place.
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#139I don’t use Twitter because I like Twitter, but because that’s where the people that I like to interact with (mostly writers) are. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. Threads failed the smell test early on because it started out with algorithmic feed only and the algori…
> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't. Then Threads came along and again everyone said it would be the death knell for Twitter. It wasn't. My takeaway would be quite the opposite. While everything that comes along…
Mastodon has been really cool recently. It was bare at first, but I've been back since November and there's a critical mass of awesome shit and cool people imo.
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#140I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client. That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent. Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability. It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram. They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads. Fa…
>They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads.
Not sure this outweighs people's desire to actually obtain the handle they've always wanted but was already taken on Twitter, which is a substantial reason to sign up for any new platform at this point. Either way both of these groups were ignored by not allowing custom handles in the first place.