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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by mtrpcic »

john_max_1 wrote: post #195
mtrpcic wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of your examples are unique, distinct separate product and problem spaces, whereas Threads is pretty aligned with Instagram as-is. A lot of the plumbing for Instagram is likely reusable for threads, and a lot of the same optimization techniques might apply just as well (or with minor tweaks). I don't think this is as much "launch something new" as it is "instagram with a mask on".

So. multiple attempts at cloning Snap, HouseParty, IRL etc. into standalone products were unique. And this one is just a minor tweak on Instagram? Let's discuss this in another 6 months. I can't predict what the future of Twitter is, but Threads would have been shuttered by then.

What apps are you referencing that Meta/Facebook launched and failed to clone Snap/Houseparty/IRL? Their snap competitor is Instagram, and it's still doing very well. Instagram is _also_ their TikTok competitor, and Reels has done a solid job in that space as well.

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Post by [deleted] »

quadcore wrote: post #73
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.

Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter Now call me crazy but I disagree. I think - or rather I feel - he's doing an excelent job somehow. He's doing what other executives are afraid to do: he's building and building requires some walls to be hammered down ; and yeah this makes some noise and smoke. He's moving fast and breaking things (if you'd excuse the easy punt). To me, what he's doing is exciting and I think t…

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Post by TobyTheDog123 »

mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'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…

I could not disagree more. I really don't think people are going to trust Meta that much more over Twitter. I'm a pretty avid Twitter lurker and I don't even plan on trying out the app.

I'm also a very happy Lemmy and Mastodon user, but going from Twitter to Threads is just trading Elon for Zuckerberg - a useless lateral move.

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Post by tedunangst »

roughly wrote: post #131

I’d really love to see some actual creativity out of the biggest names in the industry, instead of this endless regurgitation of whatever idea got the tiniest bit of traction most recently.

In this case, I think there was more than a little traction for a specific kind of social site, which turned into a crater, so it's not surprising somebody would build exactly what existed before.

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Post by aendruk »

Xeophon wrote: post #45
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.

There are already some instances which are defederating, see [0] for a write-up [0] https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_bloc...

This instance has a good write-up of their position:

https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on...

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Post by bhouston »

1270018080 wrote: post #169
bhouston wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will they win the journalist contingent? Twitter won mostly on news. Facebook has celebrity influencers but that is a different demographic. People are not interchangeable. Eg Journalists would make a very dull Instagram.

I want to see a social media site poach key users onto their platforms. NBA Twitter (over a million people easily) would switch overnight if Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski suddenly switched platforms. I think with the right UI/UX, Threads could do it. But we'll see.

Yeah you are correct. There are a few different twitters besides the journalists. And others may be more poachable and also maybe even more valuable.

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Post by markdown »

mattl wrote: post #41
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?

It uses the existing Instagram user database. No need to get a new username.

What a shame. The biggest benefit of being an early adopter is reserving a username you've used for years or decades on other platforms.

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Post by warning26 »

vitorgrs wrote: post #168
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.

Not really rumors. it's already in the code! "Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon" Found in the app strings.

"Soon" -- wonder how long that'll take.

While I'm really looking forward to is being able to follow Threads users with any Mastodon client.

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Post by FridgeSeal »

charcircuit wrote: post #86
KSPAtlas wrote: post #66

On 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

>it's proprietary but uses an open standard >owned by a large company This doesn't contradict with the fediverse. Getting large companies on board is important for ActivityPub's adoption. >and centralized So is almost every other fediverse instance.

> by one of the most toxic and damaging tech companies

I mean, this bits not great.

Facebook didn’t write a fediverse compatible app because of warm fuzzy good feelings and wanting to contribute back to the community, they wrote one so they could capitalise and absorb the existing user base. They’ll do exactly the same thing they did with fb messenger at the beginning: massive interoperability with existing protocols and communities, followed by later deliberately breaking compat.

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Post by zht »

sergiotapia wrote: post #121

I think Facebook/Instagrams very "PC-model" of moderation will allow for Twitter to coexist with them. There's a tangible difference in Twitter now that Musk took over. Raunchy, sometimes offensive jokes are now actually possible on the site. I use Twitter a lot more than I ever did because of it. I don't want Instagram 2.0 with nothing but "models" and stolen videos.

It’s funny because below most trending tweets there’s like 85 only fans “models” writing clickbait comments
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