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Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by niutech »

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…

Did you know that Instagram had previously got Threads app, which was closed in 2021? (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...)

Also Threads is a messaging app (https://threads.com). Isn't it a trademark violation?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by niutech »

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.

But still you need an Instagram account to log in to Threads.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by niutech »

luckystarr wrote: post #876
hrisng wrote: post #691

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Why? I would love for the general public to be able to connect to Fediverse. I don't love Meta per se, but let be real here, the majority of people are not gonna sign up for random instances that run by someone they don' know, to interact with a very small and niche subset of people, with a risk of it being shut down by that said person due to whatever personal circumstances they may have. It's the biggest obstacles…

The "general public" already can connect to the Fediverse, by making an account on a node in the Fediverse. See, simple. We don't need Meta for that. :)

General public doesn't even know what ferdiverse node is, nor which one to choose. They will choose a simple service from a big corporation with a huge budget on marketing.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by afavour »

nonethewiser wrote: post #751
afavour wrote: post #234

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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…

> 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 The same user data they already have from instagram? I think you’re missing the real reason they are leveraging instagram. Network effects. Instead of building a social microblogging platform from the ground up they are jumpstarting it by taking t…

> I think you’re missing the real reason they are leveraging instagram. Network effects.

I’m not missing it, I’m saying this is the exact problem. My social graph on Twitter is totally different than my one on Instagram. So Threads will be “text posts with my Instagram friends”, which may be or may not be compelling. But it won’t replace Twitter.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by tiborsaas »

danaw wrote: post #896
tiborsaas wrote: post #771

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Marketplace is so horrible on so many fronts that it's unimaginable that it's successful, but it is. Most likely thanks to the network effect. It's a good target for disruption IMHO.

I mean, compared to what, Craigslist and eBay?

eBay is too international, Craigslist is USA only. FB marketplace is probably a local focused, but for each country. I'm just guessing here, I don't have the data to back this up.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by dagw »

carstenhag wrote: post #542
22c wrote: post #340

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Reels and Stories, while directly ripped from TikTok and Snapchat have probably taken quite a bit of market share from each of those apps from people who already use Instagram as their main platform. I suspect this has some potential to keep users who were getting FOMO on Instagram from signing up to Twitter.

In my social circle (Germany), Snapchat is completely gone, Instagram stories dominate. Some people use Instagram reels, but most use TikTok.

In my social circle, Snapchat is completely gone as well. But in my teenage daughters social circles Snapchat is the primary method of communication.

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by hersko »

astrange wrote: post #290
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 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…

Do you really consider the Babylon Bee a hate speech account?

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by datpiff »

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

FB as a brand has a stink on it that they don't want Threads to be associated with

Re: Threads, an Instagram app

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Post by hersko »

djur wrote: post #497
quadcore wrote: post #73

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Musk made a lot of mistakes with twitter Now call me crazy but I disagree. I think - or rather I feel - he's doing an excelent job somehow. He's doing what other executives are afraid to do: he's building and building requires some walls to be hammered down ; and yeah this makes some noise and smoke. He's moving fast and breaking things (if you'd excuse the easy punt). To me, what he's doing is exciting and I think t…

I can't think of a single improvement to Twitter in the past 9 months. What changes I have noticed have ranged from annoying (extra-long tweets, a lot more white supremacist content to block) to destructive (boosting paid users, recent usage restrictions).

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