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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by freeopinion »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #442
aydyn wrote: post #440

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No they're right. If all you're doing is keeping up with a tight-nit group of friends, you could use a million other services. Group SMS, I-message, discord, Hangouts, even plain old email. Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it?

> Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it? It’s the media bit… Insta is created to share pictures and videos with your _own_ selection of followers. You couldn’t do that in WhatsApp without creating some horrific cartesian product of different groups chats for every node o…

I think it is a good question. You can share media like pictures and videos over email.

You offer a bit of insight about using something as a content repository. That's an interesting take.

I appreciate the question and the thought process it invites. I'm also glad you added your insight in response.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by deaddodo »

robgibbons wrote: post #397
pohl wrote: post #377

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they just leech We prefer the verb “lurk”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lurker

Yep. Leeching is mostly used in the context of torrents. Generally, while you're downloading, you're "leeching." But also, if you don't seed a file after you download it, you can call that leeching. Lurking is when you frequent a forum but never post.

Well, the terms are used based on the side effects. Leechers take something: download bandwidth/slots, processing power, etc. Lurkers are passive.

The former has negative connotations, the latter is neutral.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by worthless-trash »

linza wrote: post #447
matheusmoreira wrote: post #439

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> Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Not at all. "Journalists" are as biased as they come. They'll sing any tune prescribed by the hand that feeds them. That hand is most often advertisers but may also be governments. Chances are the articles they produce are actually hidden advertisements or propaganda. How could anyone with such massive conflicts of interest bring credibi…

I think a lot has to do with provenance. For journalists this is their day job, they post with their real name and usually under some larger entities name. They are perhaps as biased as everyone else, but it's easier to figure out the biases.

I don't believe one can make any decisive decision about bias in business funded journalism other than self interest.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by freeopinion »

djtango wrote: post #427
dahwolf wrote: post #315

It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…

The live news is unreal. It's not unique to Twitter but seeing multiple accounts of any event anywhere in the world within seconds is kind of insane. I remember when the Beirut explosion happened so quickly you had footage of what had happened. This kind of latency is unachievable by traditional news

It is achievable, but not always desirable. See, for example the ABC report of an ongoing firefight in Syria that turned out to be a gun range in Kentucky.

Random footage of some explosion is not useful news without accurate explanations of what you are seeing. It often takes time to sort out the facts of a story. Moving breathlessly ahead without facts is usually called gossip.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by wwtrv »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #448
pdntspa wrote: post #420

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Why does chat need to be 'interesting'?

That’s besides the point. Elon overpaid for a shitty social media company. So understandably he’s trying to make the money back. He’s not going to make it back just being another banal social media company. Nothing has to be anything and I feel like I got down voted because people hate Elon now. I’m not asking you to like him. I’m only saying he’s going to try and create something and maybe it’s good.

> shitty social media company

How was it more shitty than what it is now or what Musk is trying to turn it into?

At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character.

> interesting

Also what so 'interesting' (in a non crazy/entertaining way) about what Musk is doing?

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by wwtrv »

barneygale wrote: post #403
user_named wrote: post #338

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If you think like this you're engineerbrained and don't live in the real world. The account linking was a quick fix, the app was released early, and the accounts will not be forcibly linked later on. You won't need an Instagram account to sign up to Threads. But still, if you don't have one, just sign up to Instagram as you would Threads, and you already have your account made.

If a structural engineer points out that a bridge is unsafe, you don't call them "engineerbrained" and gesture at all the motorists still using the bridge. Why do we accept this bollocks in software engineering? Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them.

> Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them.

Perhaps but the login thing seems totally tangential to this..

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by wizofaus »

fassssst wrote: post #372
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #370

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Elon is trying to turn Twitter/X into the wests WeChat. So at least he’s doing something interesting? I’m back in the Elon corner. Is he goes down, it’ll be doing something interesting at least. Meta might have a head start with WhatsApp, but I don’t see them doing anything interesting or well.

But the west already has iOS and Android. A super app is just a wannabe OS.

A super app presumably has a dedicated product manager with some sort of vision and control of what goes into what features are available. You could hardly say the same of iOS+AppStore or Android+Playstore. Note that I'm not the least bit convinced we would benefit from a super app, but WeChat seems to fill a need for however many millions of users it has.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by qwytw »

hcurtiss wrote: post #291
_jal wrote: post #262

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Xitter has moved from offering 50% off ad purchases of $250k a couple months ago to threatening removal of "gold checks" from companies that don't spend $1k. That is not the strategy of a healthy advertising-driven company. It isn't even a strategy, that's flop-sweat.

I wouldn't be so sure. Tesla lowered prices and the press made the same kinds of predictions. Come earning season Tesla clobbered its competitors.

Except there is a fine amount of ads you can show on your platform before it becomes oversaturated...

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by lexandstuff »

andrewstuart wrote: post #125

I 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 launched their MVP 3 weeks ago and scaled to 100M users on the first weekend. That is a world first. Maybe give them a bit to get the house in order before demanding features?

All the features you've mentioned are on the roadmap, as they've outlined many times. Software at this scale is non-trivial.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by oxfordmale »

pohl wrote: post #377
dahwolf wrote: post #315

It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…

they just leech We prefer the verb “lurk”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lurker

I am a lurker. I have zero followers, and as such writing the nth comment on a Tweet with often n>100 is pointless, even before Musk took over.

I also don't have the time or the energy to put out quality content. It is draining to put out good content and have a handful of moaners criticise it in a toxic manner.

It is even worse if they criticise your content, because 3 years ago you said something about Musk/Tesla that wasn't 100% positive.

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