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astrange wrote: post #290
BasedAnon wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The economy is in great shape despite how many people try to cope a recession into existence. ("Inflation" is a bad thing that can only happen in a good economy.) He bought the company because he was mad they banned a hate speech account he thought was funny, unbanned them and brought all the other racists back to juice the numbers and so he could reply-guy them, and instantly lost all the advertisers because they do…

>The economy is in great shape despite how many people try to cope a recession into existence

sure it's not like several banks have collapsed or anything...

>That was not good business sense.

I'm not in favor of letting nazis on platforms, but having your business decisions be beholden to advertisers is always a disaster in the making.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by bogwog »

arbus5672 wrote: post #208
u2077 wrote: post #100

Look at that app privacy report. I didn’t expect anything less from Meta. Let’s hope they aren’t using all our Mastodon accounts for advertising too.

This seems like a largely lost cause. I appreciate that Apple has their privacy practices highlighted in a easy to read card so that developers don’t get to hide it in legalease and a click away in a privacy policy. The next step would be to actually prompt users about this, in the same way that you would get a prompt confirming that if you would like to download a large app when on mobile data. “It looks like you ar…

or simply add a colored indicator next to the download button. If an app collects too much info, it shows a glowing red exclamation mark; if it collects nothing, it's a green smiley face.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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heartbreak wrote: post #159
BasedAnon wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Where do you think the debt came from?!

Alot of it was from the acquisition yes, but Twitter was already in debt.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by bertil »

geokon wrote: post #666
bertil wrote: post #579

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It’s a text-based app, which dramatically changes expectations. Instagram Stories was, like Instagram, photos and videos. That allows consistency in how things work (not that it does in practice because some gestures were based on shared expectations with Facebook Stories, others with TikTok or Snapchat, but… you get it). Facebook designers have suffered quite a bit from dealing with very inconsistent media format: c…

Do you have any thoughts on why they attached to the IG graph and not the FB graph? Maybe I'm in a bubble, IG seems very low text, low drama, low politics. Not very Twitter-y

There’s drama on IG, but thankfully not among the people you follow.

Why? Pseudonymous accounts. They are huge on Twitter, necessary, and Instagram supports them.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by BasedAnon »

jitl wrote: post #284
BasedAnon wrote: post #95

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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

The new Twitter Blue subscription revenue is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the advertising loss and the debt he saddled the company with.

Perhaps, but Twitter blue is a more reliable stream of income.

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no2_fresh wrote: post #537
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 don't think so. No Twitter clone, or Twitter consept is going to replace Twitter. What made Twitter big, what made Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, big is that they all brought something new on the table. Blueskye, mastodon etc. don't. It's just the same. People that are active on Twitter have spent years to make a following, and there are no reason to go over to another app and create that same following again. W…

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Post by prox »

pjc50 wrote: post #699
prox wrote: post #599

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Just going to post this here, was reading an article about Threads, but it mentioned Twitter as well : >Twitter no longer has a press department. Questions sent to the former email address received a poop emoji as the auto-response. What the heck?

Musk's open contempt for journalists is a key motivation. That's why he ruined the verification feature.

That’s nuts. I guess not liking journalists is fine, but to shutdown your press department? That’s just juvenile.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by bleachedsleet »

madeofpalk wrote: post #610
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 am/was a twitter doomer, and jumped ship to mastodon ages ago. I'm not convinced Threads will manage to capture the people that used Twitter (which was significantly media & politics types) and kill Twitter. Personally, I don't have faith Meta will remain comitted to Threads. We spurn Google for killing of projects, but Meta/Facebook has a history of spinning up side projects especially for Instagram and killing th…

Mastodon ain’t it because the exact minute a minimum wage Geek Squad tech has to explain to a sorority group the reason they can’t follow each other is because they are using different federated instances is the exact minute mastodon fails to gain any mainstream appeal. It will likely always captivate some niche of users looking for a slice of the nostalgic, techie internet (Mastodon will remain an HN darling no doubt), but a Twitter drop in, it is not.
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