Twitter = free speech
Meta = lol
Threads, an Instagram app
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Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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> Facebook was all-in on cryptocurrencies. The project is fully gone. For what it's worth, their cryptocurrency project is absolutely NOT gone. It's gone in the Facebook-ownership sense (in that it was barred from continuing the project by the SEC (?)), but the code and teams are absolutely still iterating on what began at Facebook. Aptos, Sui, and 0L are all projects that have launched to fanfare within the last yea…
I think a government blocking a project from existing is by definition a failure. And it also shows that cryptocurrency projects will always be at the mercy of the whims of government(s).
This feature is not unique to cryptocurrency. Governments are our mechanism for deciding what is and is not allowed.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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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/
This behavior is pathetic. As long as Meta is open to federation to other instances, this can only be a good thing for the entire ecosystem.
The only pathetic behavior I see is the CEO who is so obsessed with Augustus Caesar he cuts his hair to look like him.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#724Big signals that Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this. I don’t use Twitter so I won’t use this either but it’ll be interesting to see if the instagram folks can take this market from twitter.
> if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this..
More like the 'fediverse' is scrambling [0] to block Threads before it has even launched.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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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…
> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great Well, Elon definitely doesn't. > 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 They're using the most popular social network which they happen to own, which already has pre-built social connections for most people who might want to try…
My recent surprise has been discovering that the online parkour community mostly lives on Instagram. I'm not sure why I find that odd, but I do.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#726The way I like to see it, Facebook think of itself as a humanitarian company working mostly in the developing an underdeveloped countries providing them internet communication services.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great Well, Elon definitely doesn't. > 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 They're using the most popular social network which they happen to own, which already has pre-built social connections for most people who might want to try…
Threads may be very popular among the existing Instagram user base, but the question is whether Twitter users are going to switch. Elon’s understanding of Twitter is poor, but Zuck’s may be worse. After all, there’s a reason that Twitter users have been on Twitter and not on Facebook all this time. Facebook is a byword for a locked down, unpleasant social network experience. Twitter gets all the headlines because it’…
that totally depends of discoverability and engagement. Bluesky is close to Twitter but doesn't have Meta resources, Warpcast for now is more like Twitter for crypto and decentraland, Mastodon got a lot of traction but also a lot of people leave it bc of discoverability problems. If threads will be close to Twitter with it's own spin, maybe it'll succeed
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#728On the fediverse, there's already a huge number of instances planning to block this app when possible as it isn't really in the spirit of the fediverse - it's proprietary, owned by a large company and centralized
lol good thing they don't matter is the least. Most of them will reverse trend instantly once they start losing users over this issue.
Most don't have a profit incentive, in fact I'd guess that some would be happy to have the users who'd leave over this leave
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#729I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just instantly ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem]( https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im... ). So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.
I tried to join a few months ago and had the same problem. I couldn’t join through the app no matter what I tried. Instant ban with no way to get unbanned. But I was able to sign up on the website without an issue. And once I had a working account, I could create multiple alternate accounts through the app.
It’s frustrating Instagram doesn’t have lists so you need a separate account for every interest.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
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Instagram itself was Twitter but for photos. It makes sense that they'd wedge Threads as Instagram but for text. I believe, the primary catalyst for Meta to build Threads is competing with Google and Microsoft on LLMs. Google Groups and GMail have nice and clean conversational data, while Microsoft has that via LinkedIn (and to an extent, GitHub). Short of Facebook and Messenger, Meta has to license from Twitter and…
It’s hilarious to think of LinkedIn as useful conversational data for an LLM… LinkedIn content… The majority of direct messaging is recruiting spam and almost the entirety of the public posts and replies are so vapid, inane, fake and performative as to be borderline damaging to the mental health of anyone that doesn’t realise it’s all performative bullshit, a business positivism LARP or MUD wrapped in a kayfabe of ha…
This is why everyone should be following Hank Green on LinkedIn.