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Cannot believe that they have a second stand-alone IG spinoff app, and they ALSO called it Threads[0]. [0]. https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...
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Marketplace dominates used goods in my area. I don't think it matters that it's not "standalone," it was a new area and they grabbed the market share. Running threads off IG has a good shot too.
I tried Marketplace a few times but always gave up because the search filter was so bad. There was no way to force it to include a particular search term, e.g. searching for "rtx 3060" would return tons of posts without "3060" or even "rtx" anywhere in the title/body. The distance search was also useless, since no matter how I tried to restrict the search to around my city, it would just randomly return posts from ci…
More so, as a seller... it gets far more leads than the other classifieds options around here. We've been casually selling berries and misc produce off our small farm on it, and it's kinda crazy how many people reach out for random $10 containers of red currants or fresh garlic scapes, etc.
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> I don't see any sign Meta understands what made Twitter great I mean, it's extremely clear that current Twitter leadership doesn't understand that either. They're not competing with Twitter at its prime (or at least its peak influence; personally I preferred it when it was a lot smaller in the early 10s) from a few years ago; they're competing with a website that just went completely dark to the public internet and…
Twitter is monetized outrage. A lot had to fall into place for that to work. Of course they need a working website, but beyond that I believe they are way sticker than pundits claim. That unique combination of echo chamber plus the ability to reach across and mock, abuse, or become enraged by the other side, all while having a community, is not easily replicable.
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Not to mention that you're only allowed a single hyperlink.
That's them trying to rate-limit the use by sex workers. Entire sites have sprung up to turn your single allowed Insta link into a number of other links.
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I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. At this point, someone just needs to stand up a Twitter clone that can handle the traffic because I think most regular Twitter users are having a much worse experience on there now -- from my own anecdotal experience as a semi-heavy twitter user.
> I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. First mover advantage and already existing userbase. Its the Windows of Operating Systems. Market domination.
Blackberry smartphones, PalmOS to organize our contacts, Sony Walkmen to listen to music, Symbian Apps, Java ME phone applications. Flash internet content, Juno Email. UltraSPARC systems running SPARC probably won't be beaten by a scrappy open source startup...
I unfortunately am stuck with the ones I have because of their ubiquity. I would jump ship in a heartbeat if a viable alternative actually took off.
What I care for when I open Twitter: - news - hearing from other people from the dev community
If Threads can deliver this, I will be hooked
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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.
> As long as Meta is open to federation to other instances That’s a pretty doubtful condition, especially if Threads becomes too successful for the Fediverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... > Fediverse users are already planning to boycott any instance Though if this is true, yeah, I dislike that too. It should be individual admins’ choices.
I wager most Fediverse users aren't worried about this (at least speaking for myself). The status quo is 2 or 3 big private companies and a few thousand federated alternatives. If Meta betrays the community, things will go back to square one and core functionality of their app will start to falter. They need the community more than the community needs them.
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Musk's actions generally speaking make a lot of financial sense, it's just that he bought a company that wasn't founded on financial sense, and now all that debt requires payment because the economy is in tatters
> Musk's actions generally speaking make a lot of financial sense, it's just that he bought a company that wasn't founded on financial sense... He bought it for ~40% more than it was valued and then scared away a lot of advertisers. That does not make financial sense, and is in large part the root of Twitter/his money problems.