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Threads for the status-seekers Spill for hip folks Truth Social for alt-right Bluesky for the cozy web Mastodon for the true geeks
So on and so on...and that's a good thing.
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Presumably you'd transfer your domain from Namecheap, not bluesky; there are extremely strict conditions on registrars around domain portability.
This is actually really messy. It’s unclear to me who is the registrant in this scenario. If blue sky then you don’t own anything and there is no portability. If you are the registrant that’s great but namecheap is going to need contact information that’s verifiable which may turn people off who would like a bit more separation on their social profiles. I also wonder does blue sky see that registrant data? Can’t say…
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Threads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.
Federation will end faster than you can say “The Gmail web client does not have an interface for joining chat rooms on other [Jabber] servers” [0] 0. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-...
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> This makes it a tiny bit more like app.net. This was such a missed opportunity by the community, because app.net was the best implementation of a Twitter alternative ever made. Better than Bluesky, better than Mastodon, better than Threads, etc. I quit Twitter in 2012 and joined app.net. It was great! But not enough people did that to make app.net last. I still think about what we could have had instead of the curr…
To me it was vaporware. I signed up for it and got a $50 lesson in being careful about supporting crowdfunding projects.
Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer.
If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become, then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was.
None of them learned the lesson of google wave, it seems. (i.e. look at these really cool features and extensions, this is what you want right?)
Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.
90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow, while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for. Decentralized platforms are the only way to go, even if it's the centralized version and vision. The Zucc way of ramming (overly) suggested content and ads down your throat will die if there are alternatives.
They rushed to market.
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FWIW (not much) Zuck said they don't intend to monetize Threads until there's "a clear path to 1 billion people" https://www.threads.net/t/CuW5-eWL34x That seems kind of strange to me, though, because 1 billion is more than 3x the entire Twitter user base.
> path to 1 billion people Also Insta has 1bn+ active MAUs and Meta us leaning heavily on Insta for Threads
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Threads had 48m users in a day which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc. There just isn't enough room in this market for contributors to post on this many text-based apps. And so consolidation will happen. 1) Threads will dominate. Mastodon will be like remora fish. 2) Twitter will be the home for "freedom of speech", Crypto bros, OnlyFans girls. 3) Truth Social, Gab, Post, Blueksy, Spouti…
> Threads had 48m users in a day which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc. Being able to migrate existing accounts in seconds tends to do that. Let’s see how many stick around.
You discount Threads user going the “easy” route, but think they will somehow go the “hard” way ?
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To me it was vaporware. I signed up for it and got a $50 lesson in being careful about supporting crowdfunding projects.
How was it vaporware? It existed, it worked. In fact it worked great. I used app.net for years. I wouldn't be nostalgic about vaporware.
Here's where they seemed to focus on trying to build their own killer app rather than on third party apps:
> Could Broadcast be app.net’s breakout app? It depends on how quickly it can corral a large base of users on the publishing side — and it could also depend on whether Twitter and Facebook make moves toward selective push notifications, too.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2013/with-newslett...