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Why does everyone have to disclaim that they would be a fan Meta/FB? We already know that everyone hates Meta on HN; gets kind of old, just express your unbiased opinions.
I felt like I needed to qualify it since I'm pretty aggressively claiming they're going to defenestrate twitter here.
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.
I 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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Because only losers use facebook. the cool kids use Instagram, a totally different thing
Cool kids used Instagram till 2015. Now their parents use it, while they use TikTok
Big signals that Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this. I don’t use Twitter so I won’t use this either but it’ll be interesting to see if the instagram folks can take this market from twitter.
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.
I think that pretty much nails it. This is Zuckerberg's life - social media & nearby segments - and he's still in his prime (very active, attentive to threats / paranoid) as a competitor in the business sphere. If you give him an opening to cripple Twitter opportunistically, he's going to take a shot.
Did Musk think Twitter actually had a moat (thus he didn't have to be overly concerned with his actions promptly sinking the ship)? It would be hilariously delusional if so.
Look at that app privacy report. I didn’t expect anything less from Meta. Let’s hope they aren’t using all our Mastodon accounts for advertising too.
Well I for one am actually looking forward to relevant ads. On Twitter I've been shown everything from industrial mining supplies, nipple covers, psychology research papers, super yachts, home shopping network junk and just now an ad for an oral dosing technology conference.
I'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?!
I'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’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.
Creativity is for startups. If you run the 8th or so most valuable company on the planet, your competitive advantage is mostly your scale. You should mostly be using that to maximize return on proven stuff (either by buying or copying proven things), not pissing away billions of dollars on stuff that a startup can iterate on for a tiny fraction of that price.