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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by partiallypro »

quadcore wrote: post #73
duncan-donuts wrote: post #4

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.

Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter Now call me crazy but I disagree. I think - or rather I feel - he's doing an excelent job somehow. He's doing what other executives are afraid to do: he's building and building requires some walls to be hammered down ; and yeah this makes some noise and smoke. He's moving fast and breaking things (if you'd excuse the easy punt). To me, what he's doing is exciting and I think t…

Elon has chased off all the biggest advertisers, turned into an abrasive online personality that elevates insane conspiracy theories, and now you can only view 800 tweets a day. That doesn't sound like an "excellent job." I had some hope for when he took over Twitter, because Twitter was not well run...but he's made the previous CEO (who was not a good CEO) look like a genius. He even failed to lure Donald Trump back...I mean. The only reason people are still on Twitter is because there is no alternative, and there are still very valuable voices on Twitter. Once or if they leave, it's all over.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

doctoboggan wrote: post #14

I feel like the people who are concerned enough to leave twitter over the direction it's going will not jump straight into another app completely controlled by a single person. My guess is they will possibly see some growth from instagram power users who are convinced to try it, but I don't anticipate a mass diaspora from twitter to threads. EDIT: others in this thread are claiming that it may be compatible with acti…

> I feel like the people who are concerned enough to leave twitter over the direction it's going will not jump straight into another app completely controlled by a single person.

I think you vastly overestimate twitter users.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by zzzeek »

im there. Twitter just announced that they are going to force people to pay for a disgusting "im an idiot" blue checkmark to use tweetdeck, and that is it, we all hate Facebook and Meta but after what Twitter has become, a total cesspool of right wing hatebot accounts and Elon-fellating, Zuck is like a welcome sight.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by frogulis »

rayxi271828 wrote: post #153
mullingitover wrote: post #93

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 hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does. (What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)

Videos not being trackable is such a perplexing one. Is it intended to keep the user watching longer by forcing them to re-watch the whole video if they want to see something again?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by heyoni »

shaunxcode wrote: post #135
mullingitover wrote: post #93

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 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.

Totally agree with that. It’s kind of like Reddit vs HN, the latter of which I’m done with..:I just feel more like a person here

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by rchaud »

elforce002 wrote: post #116
mullingitover wrote: post #93

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…

Time will tell. The issue is not scalability. The main issue is conflict. Twitter has both sides there. Truth social is not mainstream even if the main actor is posting every day. Same goes for the other side. There's also social media fatigue. Tiktok came with something "new" and it's growing because of that. Twitter is trying to move into yt space. Fb is trying to stay relevant in anything related to their core bus…

I think political content has run its course as a source of eyeballs. Politicians engaging with people was novel in the 2008-12 " hope and change/Arab Spring" era.

It's since been gamified and weaponized for electoral gain. The algorithms pushed it too hard and monetized division to the point where all but the most addicted people have tuned out.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by vitorgrs »

dstaley wrote: post #7

As a Mastodon/Fediverse user, I hope the rumors that this is based on ActivityPub are true. I'd love for there to be an easy-to-use interface for everyone that brings more people and content into the Fediverse.

Not really rumors. it's already in the code!

"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon" Found in the app strings.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by 1270018080 »

bhouston wrote: post #127
mullingitover wrote: post #93

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…

Will they win the journalist contingent? Twitter won mostly on news. Facebook has celebrity influencers but that is a different demographic. People are not interchangeable. Eg Journalists would make a very dull Instagram.

I want to see a social media site poach key users onto their platforms. NBA Twitter (over a million people easily) would switch overnight if Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski suddenly switched platforms.

I think with the right UI/UX, Threads could do it. But we'll see.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by vitorgrs »

smoldesu wrote: post #29
tomger wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably don’t want this as that would end in Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

How, exactly? What control does Meta exert over the Fediverse that the users cannot resist?

Mastodon don't have a functional search. So we start there lol
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