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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by aeyes »

robswc wrote: post #274
vineyardmike wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.

>Instagram has a web version The web version is downright awful. Maybe given this is a greenfield project, it won't meet the same fate... but yea. The "web version" of instagram is basically here's a 4x scaled version of the app without much regard to a desktop UI/UX.

4x scaled? On my machine the web version is tiiiiny. Even when we had 800x600 screen resolution websites showed more content than Instagram.

It also shows signup takeovers after clicking 2 links so without some sort of scraping proxy like Nitter it will be just as useless as Twitter if you only want to follow from the outside.

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Post by snowwrestler »

BasedAnon wrote: post #95
photonerd wrote: post #15

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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.

Musk's actions generally speaking make a lot of financial sense, it's just that he bought a company that wasn't founded on financial sense, and now all that debt requires payment because the economy is in tatters

I agree with you in part: Twitter needed its costs slashed even before the acquisition, and the post-acquisition debt load made it into a crisis.

But on top of cutting costs, Musk has also made terrible product and communication decisions that killed significant amounts of revenue and audience.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by pcchristie »

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…

Surprised I haven't seen this response, but I have a suspicion that Threads will be a referendum on Elon, and most of Twitter's left leaning users (which are most of its users, or at least most of its power users) will flock to Threads, which will start the death spiral. That's my forecast, anyway.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by gremlinsinc »

interestica wrote: post #194
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 feel like Twitter could have launched “Nests” (flocks?) to replace subreddits in the face of a Reddit exodus and pretty much just reskinned twitter for the specific use case. Hashtags as top level organizing taxonomy (to replace subreddit). Then tweets as your “posts” with nested replies. Twitter had the infrastructure to just hit the ground running too.

they could have, if they didn't close down their API, nobody wants to migrate from one API-less company to another.

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Post by tech234a »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #228
vineyardmike wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.

Instagram's web version has a serious bug that when you scroll down fast enough, it constantly loads the same content again and again. This bug has been there for months and basically renders it unusable.

Another bug I've had several times on the web version is that when I open the account privacy settings page the "Private account" checkbox will load for a few seconds and then change my account from private to public. Quite annoying especially since that also approves all pending following requests. I don't know if they fixed in the last few months but I'm kind of afraid to check.

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Post by astrange »

danShumway wrote: post #89
quadcore wrote: post #73

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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…

I don't like to use insults around mental health, or I totally would ;) Musk wants to build an "everything app" where people conduct business and accept payments. And he's shown over the past weekend that he is fully willing on impulse to literally just stop everyone from using the website. So who on earth would be irresponsible enough to trust Twitter with anything essential or important after this? Who is going to…

> Musk wants to build an "everything app" where people conduct business and accept payments.

Which is a bad idea. China has everything apps like WeChat because monopolies are easier to regulate, but customers don't actually like them, which is why we don't have them elsewhere.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by MetricExpansion »

bathtub365 wrote: post #151

I wonder how their logged out web experience will be. I think Twitter has historically (until recently) been very permissive about letting anyone view and embed content from the site and I think that’s helped it become more socially pervasive. Instagram is really popular but has typically locked down the web experience unless you log in.

This was the social network that was supposed to support ActivityPub, right? So… maybe logged out support will be good? I’m still not holding my breath though.
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