What's the point switching from Twitter to this? Threads looks like a carbon copy without all of the engaging conversations, monetization and with all of the same censorship problems.
Threads users down by more than a half
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#372It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…
Elon is trying to turn Twitter/X into the wests WeChat. So at least he’s doing something interesting? I’m back in the Elon corner. Is he goes down, it’ll be doing something interesting at least. Meta might have a head start with WhatsApp, but I don’t see them doing anything interesting or well.
But the west already has iOS and Android. A super app is just a wannabe OS.
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't. Then Threads came along and again everyone said it would be the death knell for Twitter. It wasn't. My takeaway would be quite the opposite. While everything that comes along…
Mastodon was really never going to be that place where most of the internet moved. It would've been nice in a perfect world, but it's simply not set up as an advertiser-friendly social networking site that would attract celebrities and brands, and quite frankly I think the vast majority of its userbase considers that a feature and not a bug. Still, I believe that BlueSky and Threads remain a looming existential threa…
I'm getting regular bluesky invites, and people use them. It looks like the most "correct" implementation to me at this stage, although the having to jump through hoops to share videos is frustrating.
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#374What's the point switching from Twitter to this? Threads looks like a carbon copy without all of the engaging conversations, monetization and with all of the same censorship problems.
I don't utilize either, but presumably because it's not run by a man-child who changes the rules at his own whim? Elon's attempts at monetization aren't just driving advertisers away. My buddy who has been addicted to Twitter for years has almost entirely dumped it after all the recent limits placed on direct messages recently.
He's not going to pay for blue, and he and his buddy's would rather move their conversations to discord or text messages (or Threads) than deal with Twitter.
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon is trying to turn Twitter/X into the wests WeChat. So at least he’s doing something interesting? I’m back in the Elon corner. Is he goes down, it’ll be doing something interesting at least. Meta might have a head start with WhatsApp, but I don’t see them doing anything interesting or well.
But the west already has iOS and Android. A super app is just a wannabe OS.
Google and Apple don't offer social media, the former has a video/streaming platform but doesn't seem concerned about losing it's dominant position.
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#377It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming. Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can…
they just leech
We prefer the verb “lurk”.
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#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last year Mastodon went through a hype cycle. Everyone was declaring Twitter over. You had people stating they were leaving for good, dual-posting, etc. Funnily enough many of those same people are back on Twitter today with little mention of Mastodon. It peaked in November and then went into decline. As people leave, the value of the network goes down so even more people leave. Musk's antics might prop it up every o…
It’s so funny to me watching everyone debate about what is or isn’t going to be the next ultimate single massive platform. I, and many Fediverse people, are on the Fedi explicitly hoping it isn’t in that list. Mastodon is a success to me because of the thousands of people on it and that I interact with, and that it is precisely not containing the masses. So many people think we need another Reddit and Twitter. Many o…
100% agreed. On reddit, I've always felt there was an inverse relationship between the quality of content and the number of users on a subreddit.
Personally, interactions feel more significant in smaller communities, too.
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#379Someone at Insta, please read this:
- Give me a timeline that shows only the people I follow. - Give me an "explore" section so I can find new people. - That's right, exactly like Instagram does it.
I'll use it if you do this. I know I'm not alone.
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>For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being Really? A bunch of engineering types who work for big corporations and who also dream and or do start their own hopefully big corporations prides themselves as being "counter-cultural?" That seems like a tough generalization to support.
The top-voted comment on any article is usually a comment claiming the article is wrong. We're definitely counter-something.
Except for the articles and comments that are flagged and removed. So the "counterculture" is only the opinions everyone mostly agrees with.