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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by hiisukun »

nemothekid wrote: post #265
hiisukun wrote: post #243

Maybe I missed something, but what's the equivalent of subreddits on Threads? I can see how I might discover posts from users that I follow or like -- but I actually don't ever do that on reddit. I just occasionally visit subreddits of topics that interest me, and that's a loose collection of users/content based on geography or interest or otherwise. I feel like hashtags (where you can put them on any message you wan…

I'm pretty sure Threads is a replacement for Twitter, not Reddit

How silly of me! I guess I was hoping for both, somehow. A kind of fever dream where adding site:threads.fediverse.instagram.com to searches works for finding useful human generated content..

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by astrange »

d3nj4l wrote: post #112
berberous wrote: post #84

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I take no view on whether Elon will be successful on making Twitter more profitable. But as a user -- and someone that typically supports Elon -- I have to say he's made the app subjectively worse IMO. I find the "For You" page and algorithm to boost more "junk" content than before. I used to find it interesting, now it feels like scrolling through Instagram meme pages. I'm at the point where I am thinking of uninsta…

Sorry your For You page sucks, but that's a you problem. My For You page is excellent - I see mostly the kind of tweets I like, and when I see a tweet I don't like I tap the not interested button. I actually love the new FYP way more than the old home feed, and the option to switch to the chronological "Followed" feed is more visible than before.

The only reason my FYP is good is because I blocked all the different meme accounts they added. A good algorithmic feed for a power user is one that 1. shows people you follow but 2. in relevance order not chronological order.

The current one is half trying to be the new Reddit account experience and half trying to show you politics news you'll get mad about for engagement.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by lapcat »

skiman10 wrote: post #232
delecti wrote: post #155

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Agreed. I think this succeeds or fails based on the ability to follow different kinds of things from users separately. If I can follow someone's Threads and not their Reels, I'd be glad to have such an easy migration path off of Twitter (I'm having a lot of fun on bluesky, but it's not ready). I'm not optimistic about that though, because you already can't choose to not follow reels separately from pictures.

I never got a Bluesky invite and I've seen a couple comments mentioning "it's not ready" so I'm wondering why people keep saying that? It has been in development for a while, so I would assume it is ready at this point in time.

It's not. Bluesky is still quite primitive. I wouldn't even call it a "beta", more like an alpha.

They gave invite codes to some "influencers", and it got a lot of hype and media attention, but after the hype died down somewhat, it's become basically a nothing burger. I've stopped giving out the invite codes that I'm accumulating, because my feed is pretty boring and dead. Bluesky is far more "promise" than reality.

Meta has 1000x the engineering resources of Bluesky.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by pcchristie »

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

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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.

I wondered if this was just me because I use Opera. It's awful.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by astrange »

partiallypro wrote: post #161
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…

Elon has chased off all the biggest advertisers, turned into an abrasive online personality that elevates insane conspiracy theories, and now you can only view 800 tweets a day. That doesn't sound like an "excellent job." I had some hope for when he took over Twitter, because Twitter was not well run...but he's made the previous CEO (who was not a good CEO) look like a genius. He even failed to lure Donald Trump back…

Parag was a great CEO because he got Elon to buy out all the shareholders at above market price.

Jack was a bad CEO because he's even more gullible than Elon and fried his brain with psychedelics, but he's not as bad as the current one.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by elliotec »

skiman10 wrote: post #232
delecti wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I think this succeeds or fails based on the ability to follow different kinds of things from users separately. If I can follow someone's Threads and not their Reels, I'd be glad to have such an easy migration path off of Twitter (I'm having a lot of fun on bluesky, but it's not ready). I'm not optimistic about that though, because you already can't choose to not follow reels separately from pictures.

I never got a Bluesky invite and I've seen a couple comments mentioning "it's not ready" so I'm wondering why people keep saying that? It has been in development for a while, so I would assume it is ready at this point in time.

I feel like the fact you can’t even use it yet because you don’t have an invite is exactly why it isn’t ready yet.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by spike021 »

coolandsmartrr wrote: post #285
spike021 wrote: post #233

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I'm really interested in seeing what my Japanese friends do. I don't live in Japan but have made a bunch of friends there in my travels. They're super active on Twitter for baseball and car discussion. Hoping they make the jump, honestly. At least if this app is good.

Twitter is a much better social network in Japanese than in English. You are more likely to encounter people who want to discuss hobbies than being trolls. I think they'll stick to the end, just like the Titanic. Making the jump seems a little challenging right now. Some Japanese people have tried Truth Social, even dominating the trends with Japanese keywords. I'm not sure if they'll stick there given its context wi…

For what it's worth, the same friends I refer to on Twitter (Japanese baseball fans and those into cars) are also even more active on Instagram. That's how I found many of them to begin with. I'd say 70/30 split of male/female in my experience at least.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by astrange »

threeseed wrote: post #123
u2077 wrote: post #100

Look 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.

Well I for one am actually looking forward to relevant ads. On Twitter I've been shown everything from industrial mining supplies, nipple covers, psychology research papers, super yachts, home shopping network junk and just now an ad for an oral dosing technology conference.

That's always happened to me; I think if you follow any doctors, it shows you ads for medical conferences, but I can't tell if that's Twitter messing up or the people placing the ads setting the display audiences wrong.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by fullshark »

notatoad wrote: post #225
keyle wrote: post #189

Wait, 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.

>where is the web version ... not on the iOS app store?

www.threads.com not leading to a web version is a huge problem though.
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