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Post by LudwigNagasena »

roughly wrote: post #150
jdm2212 wrote: post #142

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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?

Why would it be bad that all risky initiatives start small instead of eg accidentally ruining the whole healthcare, education or policing system with a single decision?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by publius_0xf3 »

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.

My "For You" page is filled with my own Tweets. Why would I ever want to see my own Tweets?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

publius_0xf3 wrote: post #118

I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just instantly ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem]( https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im... ). So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.

Same for me. I created the account and got banned a few hours later.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by astrange »

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?

On Instagram your social graph is already about following people you don't know.

On Facebook your experience is mainly your grandmother trying to write messages to you by typing them into any random thread or text box she sees.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by CaptainBanger »

frogulis wrote: post #165
rayxi271828 wrote: post #153

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I hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does. (What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)

Videos not being trackable is such a perplexing one. Is it intended to keep the user watching longer by forcing them to re-watch the whole video if they want to see something again?

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #231
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…

Agreed. When Instagram added stories, my entire Snapchat friendlist disappeared within a month and they were all posting to Instagram instead. I think the same will happen here. But it will be lopsided toward people who are already more popular on Instagram than they are on Twitter, which is a lot of social/non-professional audiences. I expect that Twitter accounts with large followings will continue posting there, a…

Yes and that might actually be a better outcome. Keep the narrow lines of shared concentration spheres bumping state of the art who did what releases on Twitter and have the more social social media noise join on Insta where thats already happening. Not even sure I would notice a change if that was the way it played out.

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Post by est »

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.

> I hope the rumors that this is based on ActivityPub are true.

Like how GTalk use XMPP, the port 5222 opens, but with tons of customizations and extensions that 3rd-party program can only use the basics?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by Biganon »

robswc wrote: post #274
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 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.

And let's not forget, you cannot post content from the web version, unless you resize the window to make it small enough.

Sometimes I wonder if they make their products absolute shit on purpose, for a social experiment or something

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