"Threads"? Really? Just to have it confused with Thread, the protocol, right?
Threads, an Instagram app
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#522“Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.” [1] Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta. [1] https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...
They used to run an XMPP bridge on chat.facebook.com
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#523I find it funny that everyone's saying the screenshots look like a Twitter clone. It looks like Facebook to me.
I imagine this is as much about capturing the young people not using Facebook as it is about rivaling Twitter, if not more.
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#524“Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.” [1] Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta. [1] https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...
People on the Fediverse expected it very much. Meta already was trying to talk to the larger instances "off the record"[1]. Fediverse users are already planning to boycott any instance which federates with Meta to block any Embrace, Extend and Extinguish moves.
[1] https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836
edit: More info here: https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/
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#525When was the last time, Facebook launched a successful standalone product? - WhatsApp - acqusition - Instagram - acquistion - Messenger - acquisition - Oculus - acquisition Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds. It, simply, lack the DNA to build good products from scratch. My gut feeling no one will care about Threads, 6 months from now. EDIT: - Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. - Faceb…
Threads isn't even a new app from them. It was discontinued just a few years ago. This is a relaunch with a more Twitter like experience.
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#526Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are rate limiting the viewing of tweets now. No way they have the capacity to handle Reddit’s content. Maybe Google can try replicating Reddit in YouTube - it would just be serving text instead of video; discovery would be via their recommendation algorithm, i.e. no subreddits. Frankly, they can kind of already do this, you can post community messages on YouTube. They just need to tweak the algorithm to recommen…
> Maybe Google can try replicating Reddit in YouTube They can't. Google as an organization just doesn't understand social networking. They've had comments and forums (community?) for ages. Do you know how to engage in that community? Do you know how to even track your own comments? Etc.
> Do you know how to even track your own comments?
On YouTube actually yes, it’s in “History”. :P
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#527I'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…
I feel like Twitter could have launched “Nests” (flocks?) to replace subreddits in the face of a Reddit exodus and pretty much just reskinned twitter for the specific use case. Hashtags as top level organizing taxonomy (to replace subreddit). Then tweets as your “posts” with nested replies. Twitter had the infrastructure to just hit the ground running too.
Why would the people leaving Reddit because they killed the API go to Twitter which killed their own API last year?
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#528If by any chance you’re the graphic designer who picked South Williamsburg hotspots for the iOS preview screenshots… well, hi neighbor! Good choices.
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#529I wish they would update their Hyperlapse app, it was the best at what it did but hasn’t worked in years.
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#530Circa 2006: OMG Facebook killed Myspace, Facebook is so great.
Circa 2010's: Facebook sucks, let's all move to Twitter
Circa 2023:OMG Threads killed Twitter, Threads is so great
Circa 2030's: Threads is so lame, let's all move to something else