Tried to install it but it was asking for too much irrelevant data so I decided not to.
Maybe I am not the avenge user I don’t need an IOS app for text, web is fine.
Threads, an Instagram app
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Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#202When 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
#203On the fediverse, there's already a huge number of instances planning to block this app when possible as it isn't really in the spirit of the fediverse - it's proprietary, owned by a large company and centralized
My knee-jerk reaction to this is that it's immature posturing. The internet is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. Email is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. But for this decentralized protocol (Mastodon/ActivityPub), centralized entities are a bridge too far?
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#204I'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…
Every Twitter alternative seems to be worse somehow. I wouldn’t mind if Twitter died, I think it gives people brainworms, but I see comments like this and I just see it as wishful thinking.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#205Earlier 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?
If you have a billion dollars and want to do something creative, invest it in 100 startups. But if you want to spend a billion dollars through a big corporation, you should use that corporation's comparative advantage -- which is generally scale, not creativity.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#206Earlier 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?
Doing something interesting comes with risk. That billion dollars is likely cash from investors who want a return. They won't be happy if the interesting thing you want to do isn't going to return a profit, hence they stick with what they know best and is least risky.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#207I'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…
It won't. People use Twitter because of its free speech rules and this is very unlikely to give the same degree of freedom to the "conservatives".
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#208Look at that app privacy report. I didn’t expect anything less from Meta. Let’s hope they aren’t using all our Mastodon accounts for advertising too.
This seems like a largely lost cause.
I appreciate that Apple has their privacy practices highlighted in a easy to read card so that developers don’t get to hide it in legalease and a click away in a privacy policy.
The next step would be to actually prompt users about this, in the same way that you would get a prompt confirming that if you would like to download a large app when on mobile data. “It looks like you are trying to install the app Threads which reads the following information about you. Are you sure you would like to proceed?”
This would be a natural progressing of the “Ask not to track” dialog that they implemented awhile ago
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#209From the very limited screenshots, it looks like the IG team have done a great job with the UX. If they stay true to this and keep it focused, I think this will be the winner.
Focused UX is something I feel has been really lost by many apps coming out today.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#210Wait, 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.
Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.
Have you tried to use the instagram web version though? It used to be better, getting incrementally worse on purpose every "redesign". It's borderline web hostile.