What is Threads?
Threads is their Twitter / text-only offering.
Worth mentioning it's also a data harvesting app-only offering.
How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
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Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody should be in the stock market evaluating if companies behave ethically. Most companies do not. I do not invest in Meta specifically, but I would likely not vouch for any companies in my investment portfolio. It's up to the government and the courts to go after them, not me with a paltry few thousand dollars worth of shares.
> It's up to the government and the courts to go after them Except that the government benefits from their financial success (through taxation and political donations) and the courts are more likely than not following laws that were written to favor them and their interests (through lobbying and regulatory capture), so how do you see this actually happening?
I live in a democracy. The government didn't pop into existence by manifestation of an unseen will, the society in which I live elected them.
If people voted for a government that is butt buddies with the large corporations that exploit society through lobbying and regulatory capture, then the values of that society are already represented, and everyone compromised into unethical corporations having their way.
What is not feasible is me, as an individual investor, voluntarily handicapping my ability to profit off something completely legal, out of some misguided notion that by divesting a few thousand dollars of some unethical company shares I would be saving a society that is far beyond salvation.
I am not the main character in the world at large, I am not a savior. I am just getting by life trying to do what I can that my wife and child are happy. That's really all there is.
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.
Threads reached 100M users well before they turned on Instagram promotions. And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
The reason threads is considered a success at Meta is because it'd be a marketing failure otherwise. In days past, my team there owned a product that hit over 100M MAU, and it wasn't attention-worthy in any way. It eventually got shutdown and the team disbanded.
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's up to the government and the courts to go after them Except that the government benefits from their financial success (through taxation and political donations) and the courts are more likely than not following laws that were written to favor them and their interests (through lobbying and regulatory capture), so how do you see this actually happening?
I live in a democracy. The government didn't pop into existence by manifestation of an unseen will, the society in which I live elected them. If people voted for a government that is butt buddies with the large corporations that exploit society through lobbying and regulatory capture, then the values of that society are already represented, and everyone compromised into unethical corporations having their way. What i…
> voluntarily handicapping my ability to profit off something completely legal
You are saying this is as if there were no other alternatives for you to employ your excess capital. This is certainly not true.
> some misguided notion (...) I would be saving a society that is far beyond salvation. I am not the main character in the world at large, I am not a savior.
I'm starting to hear this recently, usually thrown at me with the accusation of having Savior Complex with it, and I truly don't understand it. To me, the point is less about saving "society" and more about being able to sleep at night with a clear conscience, knowing that for all the shit that is going around in the world, my work is not doing things worse.
> I am just getting by life trying to do what I can that my wife and child are happy.
Honest question: have you ever talked with your wife about what how much material wealth do you need to be happy?
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live in a democracy. The government didn't pop into existence by manifestation of an unseen will, the society in which I live elected them. If people voted for a government that is butt buddies with the large corporations that exploit society through lobbying and regulatory capture, then the values of that society are already represented, and everyone compromised into unethical corporations having their way. What i…
> voluntarily handicapping my ability to profit off something completely legal You are saying this is as if there were no other alternatives for you to employ your excess capital. This is certainly not true. > some misguided notion (...) I would be saving a society that is far beyond salvation. I am not the main character in the world at large, I am not a savior. I'm starting to hear this recently, usually thrown at…
> You are saying this is as if there were no other alternatives for you to employ your excess capital.
None that I would vouch for as being morally superior. Capitalism is at odds with ethics. Which is why I favor the idea of government as a strong regulator.
> more about being able to sleep at night with a clear conscience
I sleep at night with a clear conscience. The quiet sleep of those that follow the laws agreed upon by society.
> have you ever talked with your wife about what how much material wealth do you need to be happy?
She is a woman. Her answer is "more".
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#56Offtopic but here we go: Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out. 2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "Hello world", my Insta account was banned for generic reason (breaking the TOS, nothing concrete). I only found out 2 weeks later, as I hadn't even visited the site(s) again. Their "Appea…
This is true for all Meta/Google/Twitter properties. No phone number results in a high chance of suspension irrespective of your usage.
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Threads is their Twitter / text-only offering.
Worth mentioning it's also a data harvesting app-only offering.
And here I was hoping that with technological advances spambots would at least post semi-truthful spam. Threads are fully functional on web.
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I can't believe any real person still uses Twitter. I haven't subscribed to anyone and have no subscribers. Nevertheless, whenever I open it, I'm swamped with US Neo-Nazi tweets, as well as pro-Russia and pro-Hamas content. I'm not saying it's the only content I see, but enough to make Twitter look like the front page of a terrorist organization. Apparently, the Twitter algorithm has learned that I'm using…
You’re not wrong. The FYP, at least for my unused account, is garbage tier. Hell, the latest phenomenon it has picked up on is meme pages used to advertise OnlyFans and gambling, and outright pornography and porn ads. Some of the worst human beings are on there spreading ideas about race theory. Responses to anything vaguely popular are filled with blue check marks either trying to make money with engagement bait, or…
I dunno about anyone else but TikTok is head and shoulders ahead of Silicon Valley when it comes mixing follows with proximate interests on the FYP; It Just Works!™
Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#59Offtopic but here we go: Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out. 2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "Hello world", my Insta account was banned for generic reason (breaking the TOS, nothing concrete). I only found out 2 weeks later, as I hadn't even visited the site(s) again. Their "Appea…
In trying to sign up for Threads, I was insta-banned when I created an Instagram account, without even having a chance to use it, for allegedly violating the ToS, which seems impossible, since I hadn't done anything yet. They wanted to extract my phone number from me, and then also a photo/video after that to "verify" my identity, so I aborted the process, because I'm not going to feed the data slurping machine. I th…
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Re: How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave me 2 billion.
Threads reached 100M users well before they turned on Instagram promotions. And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
> And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.
The current MAU is calculated by counting the users who see threads on instagram and accidentally click on it - which is A LOT.