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Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by vitorgrs » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:52 PM UTC

soperj wrote: post #9

afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

Does anyone actually use threads? Everyone seemed to go check it out, but I don't know anyone actively using it.

It has like, 30x more users than Mastodon lol

For now, it's the most viable alternative for Twitter - for now.

But this is in part because Mastodon UX is very complicated for beginners, and BlueSky is slow as hell to make improvements. It still doesn't support sending videos...

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by solardev » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

TobyTheDog123 wrote: post #10

Wow! Im amazed at how fast and pretty Bluesky is compared to other web applications, especially Twitter's.

Really? It feels so slow... interface took a couple seconds to load, and then the actual posts another 3-4 seconds. This is on gigabit too. Overloaded right now?

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by threeseed » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

soperj wrote: post #9

afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

Does anyone actually use threads? Everyone seemed to go check it out, but I don't know anyone actively using it.

There are well over 100m MAU so a lot of people are using it.

And it has reached the #1 position in most of the App Stores around the world.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

I think the point was controlled growth and community quality, not to capture Twitter's eternal September. Let them go to Threads.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by darklycan51 » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

Brosky sold twitter and before he sold it it went from the best to the worst social media, why on earth would I go back there? Elon might be cringe but Twitter is legitimately less neurotic nowadays than it was before he sold it.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by drexlspivey » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

Is Bluesky and Threads basically Twitter with different moderation policies? I can see why someone might leave Twitter for Mastodon but why would you leave for one of those 2? Just block people you don't want to see stuff from.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by jeffbee » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #20

It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…

Most of my people seemed to have landed on bsky. Discussions there get shares and likes, unlike mastodon where for me it's just a few void-shouts per day. Threads appears to be 100% mid celebrities who I am sure Facebook is paying to hang around.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by adastra22 » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #20

It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…

> it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms

Compelling for whom? For developers? I’m not sure anyone else will care.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by baby » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

I got the app but still can’t browse anything without an account. So I don’t use it :| this is user acquisition 101, if you’re behind a login page people won’t use your stuff.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by guerrilla » Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 10:55 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #19

afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

What does "too late" mean? I don't like Bluesky; it feels cliquish and insubstantial to me, and I do most of my Twitter-type writing on Mastodon now. But what am I losing by not writing on Twitter? I've been saying this for several months now, but the vibe I get from the current "fragmented" social media situation is of a reversion back to something like the heyday of Google Reader and the "blogosphere". Like: I need…

Can you tell me more about how you see your practice of posting as writing? I don't hear many people talk sbout it like that. Also, what's your goal with it?