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Post by naillo »

Cwizard wrote: post #591

I think it is surprising they went with the Instagram branding. Instagram has a better brand reputation than Facebook but I would also say that the brand image is still more for young and fun content, less serious things. Which I would think appeals more to younger people 20-35yo. While what makes twitter great is that it is a more serious platform where you can get the ‘insight’ of professionals (journalists, politi…

It's either instagram or facebook and the facebook brand is in the gutters so it's not like they had much choice.

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Post by methou »

mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'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…

Clicked on the Details next to the App Privacy, scrolling down the long list.

Yes, it will beat Twitter, it is what Twitter ever wanted to be.

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Post by subdude »

bboygravity wrote: post #492
gochi wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's two channels here. From a user perspective "what made Twitter great" is also the least attractive parts for any other company to try and mimic. The absurd levels of pornography, the anonymous fan and joke accounts. From a business perspective, "what made Twitter great" was the easy to digest brands, the non-anonymous accounts sharing their day, and journalists/other named professionals providing up to date in…

I find it mind blowing that people refer to Twitter as "once great" now that it is known that it was essentially a disgusting totalitarian political censorship and propaganda tool for one of the 2 political flavors in the US. I just don't get how someone can feel that this is better than what it is now and just casually ignore that fact. I also don't get how people can claim that Twitter is now going to die because "…

Maybe I’m crazy, but I preferred it when Twitter wasn’t suggesting I follow Nazis and putting their tweets in my feed.

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users - Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactions - These apps are used like utilities but governed as services. It is effectively impossible to exist without big tech products right now, as an individual and as a business. We need to fight for digital rights. - Communication should be as essential a utility, like water and electricity. - Centralized apps have too much power over the internet - Google was useless when Reddit went down - one clown (Musk) should not have an outsized control on the means of communication. He can't cut my water, and he shouldn't be allowed to cut my communication. - alternatives are impractical and small and as long as big tech is allowed to throw money and kill/acquire/impede smaller apps we have a problem - A democratised communication standard would eliminate the need to use specific apps like WhatsApp or Twitter for communication and information. - this will allow the web to fulfill one of its most important functions, which is, being searchable and archivable. - profit incentives do not align for big tech to make the internet we want. Small tech will make the internet we deserve.

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Post by winter_blue »

methou wrote: post #612
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'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…

Clicked on the Details next to the App Privacy, scrolling down the long list. Yes, it will beat Twitter, it is what Twitter ever wanted to be.

> Clicked on the Details next to the App Privacy, scrolling down the long list.

Man, wow, I just checked it. The list is so long that it made me laugh.

I guess they’ve decided to scoop up every last bit of data they can lay their hands on.

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Post by Sai_ »

astrange wrote: post #299
danShumway wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like to use insults around mental health, or I totally would ;) Musk wants to build an "everything app" where people conduct business and accept payments. And he's shown over the past weekend that he is fully willing on impulse to literally just stop everyone from using the website. So who on earth would be irresponsible enough to trust Twitter with anything essential or important after this? Who is going to…

> Musk wants to build an "everything app" where people conduct business and accept payments. Which is a bad idea. China has everything apps like WeChat because monopolies are easier to regulate, but customers don't actually like them, which is why we don't have them elsewhere.

India has payment apps which are going the way of super apps by allowing you to

1. Make p2p payments

2. Pay utility bills

3. Pay credit card charges

4. Buy insurance

5. Get loans

6. Make charitable donations

7. Book travel tickets

8. Find nearby stores, store timings, get directions, and see their ratings

9. Send and receive short messages

Unless “we” and “elsewhere” doesn’t include India, I’d say superapps are more common than you think.

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Post by zenmaster10665 »

shreyshnaccount wrote: post #614

- Monopolistic apps are problematic and unreliable for users - Need for an open standard for communication on these apps, similar to UPI in India for transactions - These apps are used like utilities but governed as services. It is effectively impossible to exist without big tech products right now, as an individual and as a business. We need to fight for digital rights. - Communication should be as essential a utili…

The issue with this theory is that there is no obvious way to have both deep interoperability between apps as well as innovation.

Interoperability is a contract,and that contract will slow down product evolution and lead to worse consumer products.

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Post by lopis »

afavour wrote: post #234
mullingitover wrote: post #93

I'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 couldn't disagree more. I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great, and the fact that they're heavily branding it with Instagram, using Instagram logins etc suggests to me that they're just looking for another angle to vacuum up user data. Maybe I'm unusual but the accounts I follow on Instagram and Twitter do not have a huge amount of crossover so the fact that their onboarding process tries to…

It doesn't have to be great. Users are already on instagram. Instagram reels were not better than snapchat stories, yet they still basically killed snapchat, because if people are already on Instagram, and so are their friends, that's all that matters.

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Post by netheril96 »

foooorsyth wrote: post #566

Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…

I don't like the name "Threads" either. Probably because I'm a programmer.
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