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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by giarc »

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

Threads need to realize the importance of the blue check and implement it. Prior to Musk, I would see a tweet, open the replies and look for the blue checks to see what "prominent" people were responding. Now that the blue check means nothing, that's impossible and you have to weed through all the content.

You can argue that's a good thing, that a person with 10 followers might be as interesting as someone with 100,000 followers, but it's not for me.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by dbbk »

HenriTEL wrote: post #809
dbbk wrote: post #782

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a new app, it's just reusing a previous brand name, it has nothing to do with the previous app.

Come on, the previous Threads was also Instagram’s standalone messaging service.

This isn't a messaging service and there's no shared codebase

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by lolsal »

hagbarth wrote: post #578
foooorsyth wrote: post #566

Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…

I like the standalone app as a user. I don't have IG installed and I would not install it to get Threads. But I would install a standalone app. I'm sure I'm not in the majority though.

Make sure you note all of the data they link to you in the privacy section. This app is no different from instagram or fb in that regard.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by no_butterscotch »

babl-yc wrote: post #111
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…

The key thing for me is whether it's really a text focused app or they ruin it by trying to cross promote Instagram/Reels and turn it into a mindless time suck. If they get the little details right, I see this as the only real competition to Twitter right now. After trying Mastodon for a few months, it's certainly not it.

If they also tie your account to Instagram/FB, then do I get banned across services if my account is somehow "flagged"?

Whether that's for unknown logins, spam accusations (just an accusation is enough for a tech company to throw the ban hammer), etc.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by giarc »

The_Double wrote: post #772
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #87

Oh, wait, this feels like the start of a cyberpunk story. If TikTok gets banned, where to the users go? Instagram. Threads could replace Twitter. Reddit is going downhill... Maybe Meta could even buy it in a firesale? Outside of chat apps like Discord, Slack, Teams and Telegram (which compete with WhatsApp), Meta will have consolidated most of the world's social media under them. And that's assuming they dont buy out…

Reddit going downhill is mostly because they are trying to become more like Meta. A competitor should be less meta, not more meta.

Imagine if Meta bought Reddit, pulled the need for ads and gave the volunteer moderators access to Meta's team of 50,000+ moderators. "You deal with the conversations and the messages from users, we'll take care of the taking down user content that is against the rules." Meta uses the content to train their AI models, removes API pricing (or reduces it greatly, no need to IPO and therefore no need to show revenue).

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by kbos87 »

There’s a real opportunity here for Meta, but their success is far from a given. To get this right they are going to need to make some product decisions that aren’t in their nature.

#1 should be completely, actually bifurcating the experience from their other platforms. If they want me to use my Instagram login and want to make it easy for me to follow my IG followers, fine.

But the temptation to “carry” the network or the content over from Instagram or Facebook is going to be strong for them, because it looks like a baked-in advantage their investors will expect them to leverage to its fullest. In reality it’s the total opposite - I’ll be gone instantly if a bunch of low quality content from people I’m not interested in hearing from (read: that girl from high school I might follow on Facebook.)

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by fassssst »

esskay wrote: post #595
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #87

Oh, wait, this feels like the start of a cyberpunk story. If TikTok gets banned, where to the users go? Instagram. Threads could replace Twitter. Reddit is going downhill... Maybe Meta could even buy it in a firesale? Outside of chat apps like Discord, Slack, Teams and Telegram (which compete with WhatsApp), Meta will have consolidated most of the world's social media under them. And that's assuming they dont buy out…

> Reddit is going downhill... Maybe Meta could even buy it in a firesale? The problem is Reddit has very little real value, and to get that value you'd have to go even further into pushing its users away from the platform as you'd need to be able to target and identify individuals. Unlike Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc the majority of Reddit is very intentionally anonymous, not even requiring an email address. A si…

Reddit has real value if you wanted to build a search engine or train AI…

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by docmars »

I think in order for Threads to be successful and compete with Twitter, they will need to stop policing information so heavily as they do on Facebook. Most of my immediate circles left Facebook because of all the tyrannical fact checking notices, suspensions, and "misinfo" policing going on.

Whereas Twitter now prides itself in being the free speech absolutist social media app, and information flows freely there. While they do have Community Notes to add context to potential (real) misinformation, at least it's guided by Twitter users and doesn't prevent people from seeing the original post without jumping through hoops, and there's no risk of being suspended for angering the Ministry of Truth, brought to you by government officials looking to cover-up inconvenient facts.

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