I’d really love to see some actual creativity out of the biggest names in the industry, instead of this endless regurgitation of whatever idea got the tiniest bit of traction most recently.
Threads, an Instagram app
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#132Usually these things take time to ship for a company the size of Meta right ... or ... not? Could it be that this was put in together in a couple sprints as they saw Twitter in a weak position? Or maybe they have a lot of products like this on the bench and release them when the time is right?
Well, it was announced that naughty old mr car would be buying twitter in about April last year. From then, there was enough chance it might all go horribly wrong that maybe they could justify this project.
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#133I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just instantly ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem]( https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im... ). So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.
They also instantly reverse that if you follow the email prompt/mobile prompt. No idea why they decided to handle anti-spam that way.
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#134I'm not too familiar with mobile app dev but why is the app 254 MB? I just compiled a 3rd-party Android Reddit app with a different oauth client_id and the apk was 18 MB. What are they packing in there?!
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#135I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting. Meta is going to grind the blue bird to a fine powder, not saying this as a Meta fan, just a casual observer. There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative, and so far Bluesky and Mastodon haven't…
I am completely ok with this. Let the mainstream have their thing and keep mastodon weird. Right now it’s got a usenet/bbs vibe and I love it. That goes away as the mainstream/tide comes in.
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#136I like that there's some competition in this space. I wish it was someone else because I will never have a Facebook-controlled app on any of my devices again. I simply don't trust them. If it's available on the web and it gains traction, maybe I will use it.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has been known to be coming for quite a while, so it’s probably just opportune timing on their part being close enough to ready to ship. But hooooly crap does it underscore how much of a catastrophe Musk’s actions are.
Musk's actions generally speaking make a lot of financial sense, it's just that he bought a company that wasn't founded on financial sense, and now all that debt requires payment because the economy is in tatters
Buying Twitter at the price he bought it at made no sense once the market turned. It would have made financial sense to structure the deal in a way that it was easy for him to get out of, but he didn’t. Twitter has also now been saddled with additional debt with interest that needs to be paid on a regular basis since it was a leveraged buyout. I’ve been thinking about the deal since it happened and it certainly doesn’t seem to make financial sense to me.
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#138I think Facebook/Instagrams very "PC-model" of moderation will allow for Twitter to coexist with them. There's a tangible difference in Twitter now that Musk took over. Raunchy, sometimes offensive jokes are now actually possible on the site. I use Twitter a lot more than I ever did because of it. I don't want Instagram 2.0 with nothing but "models" and stolen videos.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems closer to the ending at this point (for Twitter).
So, the ending of twitter is to switch to Threads with FB's content moderation guidelines? I don't think so. We have social media fatigue rn. Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right). This is the main reason gab, truth social, etc... won't be mainstream. Fb hasn't been original from a long time. From trying to launch a substa…
> rarely goes down
This would be the site that has been effectively largely down for the last three days?
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#140Great, another social media platform that won't have any form of support team.
Twitter at least had one you could actually talk to before Elon took over, but Instagram has lacked support contact methods for years at this point.
Using a platform where you have no recourse or even method of reaching out if something goes awry is always a dangerous game to play :(