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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by photonerd »

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…

The average person doesn’t really care about that. They care if the site is functional & can other people see their posts.

Right now neither of those are true of Twitter.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by duncan-donuts »

photonerd wrote: post #15
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.

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.

Oh I didn’t know that. At any rate those product folks at instagram have likely been salivating for the last couple months. Probably would be an extremely fun team to be on right now.

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Post by ori_b »

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.

Indeed. Like facebook chat was XMPP based. If the rumors are even true, let's see how long until the rug pull.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by doctoboggan »

silisili wrote: post #20

I'm not into FB/IG, but I'm curious why this was launched as 'an Instagram App', rather than 'by Facebook' or 'by Meta' or something similar?

I suspect it's because instagram is their brand with the most positive perceptions. FB is seen as old and meta is all about the metaverse.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by smoldesu »

tomger wrote: post #19
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.

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?
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