the page hangs for me with a bunch of CORS errors in the console - am I the only one?
Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the GP had given "access to location" as an example of the obscene permissions, I would not have replied. That's indeed a permission that the app requests (but AFAIK doesn't require or automatically get!), and people can judge for themselves whether requesting that permission is reasonable or not. But the GP didn't do that. They gave access to health data as the example, and that's just not a permission that the a…
The Register has a story about Threads and the permissions it asks for, "Health and Fitness" is indeed on the list. Honestly, it looks like it simply asks for every conceivable permission (what is "Sensitive Info" or "Other Data"?) There's a screenshot at the bottom of the article with the full list. https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/05/threads_comes_to_uk/
Right, this is exactly what I mean. That screenshot is not a list of permissions.
That is a screenshot of the Privacy Labels. It's basically a structured form of the app's privacy policy, self-reported by Facebook. Them putting "Health and Fitness" in that list does not in any way grant their app access to any health data on your iPhone. The same is true for literally every other item on that list. It has no impact on what iOS lets the app do.
The reason all of that data is listed there is that Meta might already have it associated with your account, due to e.g. your use of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Quest, and they might make use of that data in this app too. Or possibly they want a single unified privacy policy for all their apps.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, we've seen this playbook before with XMPP.
If a protocol is killed because a single megacorp starts to use it and then drops it, then who's at fault? XMPP was just a hard to use, outdated protocol.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bluesky has custom timeline control and web UI, and Mastodon is another potential option. For people saying it's not taking off, my Swedish community over at Mastodon is currently about as active as on Twitter. I think we're passing critical mass especially with the most recent exodus that filled the ranks even more. And yes it looks like not all but many are staying.
You can't even create an account on Bluesky.
and bluesky is a really rough beta.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have a look at the App Privacy for the Threads app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644... "The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, Diagnostics, Other Data" You agreed to give all that data to Meta when…
It has to actually request the permission from iOS to get access to the data and it doesn't do that. When I go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Health, Threads is not listed as an app that has access. Maybe at some point in the future it will request access, and you can just deny it then if you don't want it.
I see the same things. The only permission Threads asked for was Notifications.
I think the poster is confused between technical system-granted permissions (e.g., Contacts, Location, Bluetooth, etc.) and app privacy labels (i.e., a self-declared user-friendly version of a legalese privacy policy).
Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the GP had given "access to location" as an example of the obscene permissions, I would not have replied. That's indeed a permission that the app requests (but AFAIK doesn't require or automatically get!), and people can judge for themselves whether requesting that permission is reasonable or not. But the GP didn't do that. They gave access to health data as the example, and that's just not a permission that the a…
The Register has a story about Threads and the permissions it asks for, "Health and Fitness" is indeed on the list. Honestly, it looks like it simply asks for every conceivable permission (what is "Sensitive Info" or "Other Data"?) There's a screenshot at the bottom of the article with the full list. https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/05/threads_comes_to_uk/
Literally read what that labeling does.
It doesn’t give the app access to your health data.
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#177I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
>Twitter is more hostile than it's ever been. >The first time a blog post is written about the Epic Dunk that AOC had on Ted Cruz... How do you reconcile these two statements? I feel the performative "mic drop" moment is a major source of toxicity on Twitter. A breath of fresh air would be a place that promoted thoughtful and empathetic conversations.
I read the first one as OP meaning that Twitter is hostile to users, not that users are hostile to each other
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're spot on here. Some very obvious features are missing, but for a v1 launch the app runs smooth, feels clean, is easy to get started, and has a jovial early internet feel. Meta will ship most every feature the average Twitter user would want in the next month or so and then it's game over. Aside, it's amazing how Elon's antics over the last year (or many years) have somehow made Zuck seem both personable…
What about the network externalities? People are on twitter because everyone is on Twitter, not because twitter has better features...
everyone is on instagram too. the threads onboarding process is suppper simple and you can auto follow your instagram peeps as soon as they signup.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter is full of interesting niche people talking about their favorite subjects. For example, there is no better way to follow the war in Ukraine.
Based on reading the Institute for the Study of War's daily updates, I got the impression that they rely a lot more on Telegram. E.g. the most recent post https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens... has 90 t.me links and 22 twitter.com links. Since for the ISW folks, following the war in Ukraine is kind of their job, I think that's a pretty good approximation of the two platforms' relative importa…
The ISW folks maps tend to not really reflect reality so well.
Every time someone lands troops somewhere they mark it as a territory gain, even if the area is still ‘disputed’.
It’s deeply annoying - small thrusts and retreats or probing attacks by either side get marked as territory gains/losses, which is entirely inaccurate and usually the situation has changed by the time ISW posts it.
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#180Where is the login or signup button on their threads.net webpage?