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Usually these things take time to ship for a company the size of Meta right ... or ... not? Could it be that this was put in together in a couple sprints as they saw Twitter in a weak position? Or maybe they have a lot of products like this on the bench and release them when the time is right?
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…
No mention of federation or Mastodon in the description. I wonder how their negotiations with large Fediverse servers are going. Is there anything else that distinguishes this from existing Facebook products?
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.
I also remember the rumours stating that the Federation part was exclusively targeting large Mastodon servers, and also mostly unidirectional (from Mastodon to Threads).
I don't think the federation support will be all that great from what I've heard. But who knows, maybe it'll bring the Fediverse to the mainstream.
WSJ really did a great job with this headline: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-looks-to-delive...
Seems normal with a reference to the potential fight.
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?
The public associates Facebook/Meta with excessive data collection, overhyped VR, intrusive tracking, etc. That association is much weaker with Instagram.
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'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?
Also it uses the Instagram infrastructure e.g. auth and design language.
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?
Simple: Facebook and Meta have garbage reputation compared to Instagram brand. The public associates Facebook/Meta with excessive data collection, overhyped VR, intrusive tracking, etc. That association is much weaker with Instagram.