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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by smoldesu »

luckystarr wrote: post #570
dstaley wrote: post #7

As a Mastodon/Fediverse user, I hope the rumors that this is based on ActivityPub are true. I'd love for there to be an easy-to-use interface for everyone that brings more people and content into the Fediverse.

This will not benefit Mastodon/Fediverse, but it will benefit Meta because of the already available content. It's basically solving their chicken-or-egg problem for them. I'm not at all sure this will be good for the Fediverse. I already see Meta "improving" upon ActivityPub in incompatible ways, urging people to just use their app (potential quote: "you can see all of the Fediverse anyways") and in the long run (whe…

Free Software isn't about picking and choosing who gets to run your program or interact with your protocol. Federation is, but the concept of Meta using ActivityPub has nothing inherently wrong with it.

If Meta has the gall to rug-pull the entire Fediverse, things will just return to the same status quo they are today. Multiple content silos with thousands of freely-federating alternative platforms. As a Mastodon user I can't say I'm very scared of it, such a decision would hurt Meta more than it helps them.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by m3kw9 »

proxy9 wrote: post #798

What I dislike about Twitter lately: - overarching political propaganda - crypto bros - AI bros - profit chads - constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself 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

Which means a lot will be censored, if they don’t censor you end up with the same convo people want to talk about in the current times

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

luckystarr wrote: post #524
modernerd wrote: post #481

“Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.” [1] Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta. [1] https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...

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/

If my current mastodon instance blocks Meta, I will move to a different instance which federates with them. The entire point of federation in my eyes is that it lets me talk to as many people as possible.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by rcme »

runeks wrote: post #767
rcme wrote: post #716

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny that there is a narrative that Instagram killed Snapchat with their stories feature. Snapchat still has something like 383M DAU. That's a massive user base. Instagram Stories definitely blunted Snap's growth, especially with millennials and older.

Snapchat is losing $300M USD every quarter. Unless they find a solution they’ll be gone soon.

Free cash flow is positive though

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by smoldesu »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #185
danShumway wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data I am 99% sure that this is not a real thing and that you're using all of these words incorrectly. When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data? What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?

> When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779 > What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads? I have no proof of this. It's just speculation. I also don't have an iDevice so I can't install the app and look for myself. But the timing of Twitter's rate limiting this week, combined with Elon's clarification that Twitter data is being mass-scraped, c…

> can't be a coincidence, can it?

Boy do I have a cosmic bridge to sell you!

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by hklgny »

m3kw9 wrote: post #822
proxy9 wrote: post #798

What I dislike about Twitter lately: - overarching political propaganda - crypto bros - AI bros - profit chads - constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself 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

Which means a lot will be censored, if they don’t censor you end up with the same convo people want to talk about in the current times

Remember when we used to call that filtering and it was a feature and not a con?

Not for actual censuring in cases where it’s demonstrably harmful - but I’m not required to give attention to someone’s opinion just cause they feel like blasting it into the void. Twitters gone too far the other way.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

>Share ideas & trends with text

The circle of Web 2.X (3.X?) progress continues! This was called the 'Facebook Wall' in 2007. You could write stories, post links, photos, etc. It worked and scaled. Not much longer until they progress into a 'student directory and message' app, exclusively for college and university students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Facebook_features#Wall

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by onychomys »

qwertox wrote: post #670
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 have Facebook and Instagram DNS-blocked on my network and have negative feelings towards Meta. But I wouldn't feel bad if Threads took over Twitter's most important data generators (politicians, journalists, newssites). I dislike what Twitter has been turned into, it's close to nothing else but a megaphone for the owner to mostly troll the world. If Threads would be usable on a desktop via a website, I'd gladly reg…

> and Reddit via a 3rd party apps

i have some bad news for you

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by heyoni »

wholinator2 wrote: post #230
heyoni wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree with that. It’s kind of like Reddit vs HN, the latter of which I’m done with..:I just feel more like a person here

Latter refers to the item at the end of the list, i.e. that HN is the one you're done with. Prior is one of the words that's acceptable to refer to the start of the list.

Geez yea I meant it the other way

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by xyst »

Bye bye Twitter.

Personally I would not use Threads because of association to FB/Meta. But likely many others will.

The only real users left on Twitter will be bots and Musk rats

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