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I'm kinda loving the obvious "X" shills in the comments coming just to declare Threads dead. It is literally the 2nd most downloaded app in the AppStore (was #1 for a bit, but Temu is seemingly unstoppable). Personally, it has become my preferred social media platform. It's overflowing with content and I check in on it several times a day, and have been really enjoying the community that is emerging. It DOES however…
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From having talked to Facebook engineers (I suspect Instagram/Threads is a very different beast for historical reasons), Facebook is only built on "PHP and MySQL" in the sense that the statement is technically correct but not helpful. The way Facebook apparently uses MySQL is not "MySQL + k/v store" but "MySQL is the k/v store". Forget SQL, they treat it as a key-value lookup and it's good enough for that. This also…
This is not correct. Facebook has a large number of distinct MySQL tiers, which serve different purposes and have wildly different workloads. None of them are traditional "key-value lookup" workloads, not even the core user database (entities/associations); this k/v claim is often repeated here, but has never been an accurate representation of the architecture. The TAO graph access pattern absolutely requires range s…
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It's ActivityPub based, Twitter like, social media from Meta It's been pretty chill over there, lacks the crazy that is Twitter For me, it opens the potential for a federated social media protocol. Having a big player like Meta means everyone will likely benefit. Federated means we can move between servers without losing the network, allowing for competition in moderation, algorithms, and monetization
Instagram has been recommending me nothing but controversial political posts from Threads. I've rarely been so repelled from signing up for a service that I might have otherwise tried using.