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Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by rsolva »

That is already twice as much as the Fediverse has currently. It will be interesting to observe what happens when Threads flip the switch and becomes compatible with the ActivityPub protocol.

As a long time inhabitant of the Fediverse, I do not like the idea of Meta slurping up my public posts hosted on my own server. Would it help to put my profile and public posts under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license? I guess that would hinder Meta, in theory at least, to use my content as they are the very definition of a commercial actor, earning big piles of cash mixing user content with ads.

EDIT: I guess I'll use this license for all my posts from now on: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by nixass »

ggm wrote: post #28

I am unlikely to join. So, I ask from a distance: Have meta defined any public interest oversight What are they doing about hate speech, CSA and crime Do they have a penalty box or exclusions policy for politicians and political hacks and what appellate process exists Do they recognise the force of national laws in any specific jurisdictions beyond the USA How does meta intend dealing with Iran and china

> How does meta intend dealing with Iran and china

Through appease, of course

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by mullingitover »

The "No wifi. Less space than a nomad. Lame." assessments are coming on strong.

It's doing incredibly well for v0.0.1-alpha. Not a single hiccup that would indicate scaling problems. Bluesky had this for the taking, and they failed to execute. It's a shame that it'll be Meta owning it, but let's face it: they were able to ship a product with good market fit, and people are happy with it. They'll study Twitter's meltdown in college marketing courses decades from now.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by extr »

I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger engagement as you would on twitter, why continue to bother with it? Twitter is more hostile than it's ever been. Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it. Elon is egging it on, it's a complete mess.

My prediction is twitter will remain the refuge of the long tail. Niche people and communities will stick around, as will I. But that doesn't support billions in ad revenue. Threads will become the "place things happen". The first time a blog post is written about the Epic Dunk that AOC had on Ted Cruz and the screenshots are of Threads, you'll know I was right.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by sshine »

KSPAtlas wrote: post #34
easyThrowaway wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A twitter clone with a different, less impulsive weirdo CEO at the helm.

And attempting to EEE the fediverse out of existence

EEE = embrace, extend, extinguish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by greensmith »

benoliver999 wrote: post #26
bkishan wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By your logic, is Instagram a failure too? Its just those same permissions.

Instagram doesn't require an app. But I get your point, I doubt people really care.

I doubt they will keep it app only. If they want to attract news outlets from twitter they will need to support embedding somehow

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by chinathrow »

nixass wrote: post #50

Has anyone tried using it in browser? Does it work well or they force app download onto you like they do with Instagram? I think Meta felt the pressure, seeing people might move to Mastodon (happy user from today) and wanted their piece of cake

There is (currently) no forced app download for Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/accounts/emailsignup/

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by dan1234 »

JSavageOne wrote: post #49

I'm not going to download this because there's no web application. It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application in order to maximize app installs and thus maximum control over their users (eg. scrape your contacts, push notifications, and most importantly to show you ads). In 2023 nobody wants to install yet another app, so this is a clever strategy to optimize for app installs. Not going to w…

Deny access to contacts and push notifications, use DNS based ad blocker should take care of those problems.

Are people actually typing thought provoking, in-depth analysis into Twitter?

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by easyThrowaway »

folli wrote: post #33
easyThrowaway wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A twitter clone with a different, less impulsive weirdo CEO at the helm.

does the "less" refer to "impulsive" only, or both "impulsive weirdo"?

I was talking specifically about the "impulsive" part. Sorry, english is not my first language and adjectives order[1] truly messes up with my brain.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/senten...

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