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Post by vitorgrs »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #38
wenc wrote: post #11

For those not in the loop: Meta to launch Twitter-like Application Threads on Thursday. "Threads, Instagram's text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to follow the accounts they follow on the photo-sharing platform and keep the same username, a listing on Apple's App Store showed." https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-07-03/...

Oh great, so it's gonna be unusable for me anyways. Couple days ago tried to make my first Instagram account. When it came to the step where I had to enter the security code they mailed me I just got "sorry something went wrong" repeatedly for about an hour, then I gave up. Couple days later I tried again but used my own domain for email instead of gmail this time. Entering the code worked but I was immediately greet…

Just tried to create an account right now and had the same issue, they though it was a spam account...

how is that so restrictive and yet Instagram is full of bots?

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#42

Post by rekoros »

ctcherry wrote: post #36

Anyone from the https://threads.com team around? This must be at least annoying

This is the comment I’ve been looking for!

This might turn into another Clubhouse/Shortcut situation

Stay strong, Threads (.com)

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#43

Post by slimebot80 »

fbdab103 wrote: post #20
slimebot80 wrote: post #18

I get it: Twitter is under pressure Love it. But, I generally feel social media is dying in far bigger ways than just these dilutions. People don't trust it, and are caring far less. The hey-day and the novelty has completely worn of for the majority who are not narcissistic enough to put the energy in to arguing or self-promoting. Reality is king! Musk and Zuck and Xi are just all jostling for slices of a crusty, sm…

According to scattered sources of dubious authenticity, daily active users - 500 million - Instagram - 150 million - Snapchat - 50 million - TikTok

People slow down for car accidents, too.

The days of simple joy when connecting with friends on Facebook are well behind us.

People understand it's a certain type of person who actively posts their photo on Facebook and their opinion on twitter. While the majority of normal people remain lukewarm at best.

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#44

Post by re »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #21
nvy wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like "allowing Facebook properties" and "Firefox tracker protection" are fundamentally at odds.

It depends on what the goal is: in this case, fbcdn is first-party for the threads website (because they’re both owned by the same company) and blocking it makes for a worse experience.

Yes, this is what I meant. Facebook properties are allowed to load resources from Facebook domains. https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

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#45

Post by smoldesu »

gbraad wrote: post #25
fishpen0 wrote: post #8

Mastodon communities are already coordinating trying to fully defederate threads. This is definitely going to be interesting to watch as a big whale jumps into the fediverse with the intent to profit

Which makes no sense. They wanted Google to federate. They still want Apple to open messages (xmpp)... And this? Block it before we see it.

These are not really the same thing.

First off, "they" is a diverse group of people with different opinions on all three of these topics. Secondly, assuming you're talking about RSS, what people wanted from Google wasn't federation but syndication. Google broke the deal and moved to their own solution, acting like they were never a part of RSS in the first place. They later admit they were wrong and added RSS functionality back. Third, people less want Apple to open messages and more want them to make a version of it that doesn't rely on Apple as a single point of failure. It makes iMessage functionally incomplete as an SMS successor.

And this? People will do whatever they want, across thousands of instances, and eventually people will decide whether they were right or not. The fact that these users even have the freedom to reject Meta outright is worth celebrating.

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#46

Post by unshavedyak »

dotnet00 wrote: post #29
fishpen0 wrote: post #8

Mastodon communities are already coordinating trying to fully defederate threads. This is definitely going to be interesting to watch as a big whale jumps into the fediverse with the intent to profit

The wider fediverse continues to demonstrate why most people prefer to stick to centralized social media. If I wanted to deal with moral busybodies who feel like they have to respond to everything, I'd just tune back into the political side of Reddit and Twitter. With the fediverse, the most likable servers I've interacted with all just let people do whatever they want as long as it isn't illegal and doesn't overload…

I love that the fediverse gives you those options.

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#47

Post by Jtsummers »

smoldesu wrote: post #45
gbraad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which makes no sense. They wanted Google to federate. They still want Apple to open messages (xmpp)... And this? Block it before we see it.

These are not really the same thing. First off, "they" is a diverse group of people with different opinions on all three of these topics. Secondly, assuming you're talking about RSS, what people wanted from Google wasn't federation but syndication. Google broke the deal and moved to their own solution, acting like they were never a part of RSS in the first place. They later admit they were wrong and added RSS functio…

They probably meant one of Google's chat systems. Google Talk was federated with XMPP, and then they dropped it (a decade ago? longer?).

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#48

Post by ianlevesque »

rekoros wrote: post #42
ctcherry wrote: post #36

Anyone from the https://threads.com team around? This must be at least annoying

This is the comment I’ve been looking for! This might turn into another Clubhouse/Shortcut situation Stay strong, Threads (.com)

Well, thefacebook.com worked out eventually.

Re: Threads.net

#50

Post by changethe »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #38
wenc wrote: post #11

For those not in the loop: Meta to launch Twitter-like Application Threads on Thursday. "Threads, Instagram's text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to follow the accounts they follow on the photo-sharing platform and keep the same username, a listing on Apple's App Store showed." https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-07-03/...

Oh great, so it's gonna be unusable for me anyways. Couple days ago tried to make my first Instagram account. When it came to the step where I had to enter the security code they mailed me I just got "sorry something went wrong" repeatedly for about an hour, then I gave up. Couple days later I tried again but used my own domain for email instead of gmail this time. Entering the code worked but I was immediately greet…

had the same happen to me a while ago, also gave up.
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