Will this also take some of Reddit’s market? If so, Meta was just given a golden opportunity that couldn’t have fallen together more perfectly.
Threads, an Instagram app
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Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
When I complained to my friend at Instagram about this, this is the exact answer she gave as to why they have it like this.
Instagram is a Duke of dark pattern ux, I'd say king but there's travel booking websites out there that hold the crown.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#183When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…
Marketplace dominates used goods in my area. I don't think it matters that it's not "standalone," it was a new area and they grabbed the market share.
Running threads off IG has a good shot too.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That’s an incredibly depressing way to run a world. What on earth is a billion dollars for if not doing something interesting?
Metaverse? Llama? They’re doing both.
How well they’re doing those is up for debate, but they’re doing interesting stuff too.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#185Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.
> are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data I am 99% sure that this is not a real thing and that you're using all of these words incorrectly. When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data? What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?
> When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779
> What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?
I have no proof of this. It's just speculation. I also don't have an iDevice so I can't install the app and look for myself.
But the timing of Twitter's rate limiting this week, combined with Elon's clarification that Twitter data is being mass-scraped, combined with the launch of Threads this week...can't be a coincidence, can it?
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#186I'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…
Twitter is the idea app, Instagram is the thirst trap app. It's not going to work.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#187When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…
What was Messenger before acquisition?
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
It's also there to force the user to watch the full video to see if the build up to some final product was actually worth seeing. Both reasons are there to take seconds off your life to juice their engagement stats.
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#189Wait, where is the web version?
A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet.
Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#190Interesting that it's an "Instagram app" and not a Meta app.
Because only losers use facebook. the cool kids use Instagram, a totally different thing
A lot of young people are back on Facebook for Marketplace. It's the "app" a lot of people use nowadays to find cool second hand furniture.