Threads, an Instagram app • Hacker News Board

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by jeroenhd » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #29

tomger wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably don’t want this as that would end in Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

How, exactly? What control does Meta exert over the Fediverse that the users cannot resist?

Meta has money to pay app developers to develop a good app.

Most ActivityPub services have taken ages to get decent apps and even now Mastodon has some obvious problems. Opening someone else's profile if nobody on your server follows them shows you a barren timeline with no history and there's still no way to tell Mastodon "go fetch toots from this user's outbox".

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by tills13 » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #34

Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.

maybe I missed it but how does this utilize Twitter data for bootstrapping?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by cmeacham98 » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #40

cmeacham98 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Funnily enough, I scrolled to the "Data Linked to You" section and was not disappointed.

To be clear, I'm not saying that Instagram actually is any better than Meta/Facebook - but that their public perception isn't as disasterously tainted.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by zui » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

silisili wrote: post #22

zui wrote: post #8

Also on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram....

Hrm...mine tells me something went wrong when clicking. Is it a beta or something?

That's strange, worked for me. Probably some A/B testing ...

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by brucethemoose2 » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #34

Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.

I am not sure what you mean? Why does Threads need any Twitter data?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by threeseed » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #34

Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.

a) There is no evidence of mass-scraping.

b) It is legal and ethical to scrape public data. Especially when that data is owned by its users and not by Twitter.

c) The more likely explanation for Twitter's rate limiting is that they didn't pay their AWS/Google bill and rather than cut the service off they limited its bandwidth and/or compute capacity.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by ethanbond » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:57 PM UTC

ciabattabread wrote: post #32

doctoboggan wrote: post #14

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…

Twitter’s gonna be a ghost town soon the way it’s trending. Instagram is providing a lifeboat, and it’s a known quantity of “evil”. Compared to whatever the heck Musk is doing.

Value prop: operated by an adult

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by asdadsdad » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:57 PM UTC

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #34

Disappointing that competitors are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data. This is almost certainly what Elon was referring to earlier this week; the same thing happened with Substack Notes. Hope Twitter pursues legal action against Meta for this.

Meta is extremely hypocritical about scraping. They continuously send their legal team to threaten third parties on scraping of their platforms yet time and again are caught red-handed

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by dbbk » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:57 PM UTC

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?

The following social graph of Instagram is much more skewed toward celebrities than on Facebook I’m guessing

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by znep » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:57 PM UTC

Does anyone have any insight into if this a respin of the same Threads app from 2019 or just the same name? https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/03/threads-instagram-f...