Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snapchat is losing $300M USD every quarter. Unless they find a solution they’ll be gone soon.
Free cash flow is positive though
because they pay everyone in equity
Threads, an Instagram app
981–990 of 1001 posts
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#982My question is, after the twitter fiasco, there is a number of competitors, like skyblue or this threads that have been created to remplace it (I dont count Mastodon, because it was not created to remplaced, but as an open alternative). Why absolutely no big company (MS, facebook, google, amazon, etc...) is attempting the same with Reddit? Not even discord has done any single change to try to steal any userbase from…
Probably the same reason there wasn't a twitter clone until now. Big tech sees that reddit is inherently a bad business that causes political headaches and is hard, if not impossible, to monetize.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#983Earlier quoted context omitted.
The logo is an @ with a very strange choice of typeface. Probably a nod to the @username format that Twitter made so popular.
@ was used to reference people looooong before Twitter popularized it. In fact, it was users on Twitter already using the paradigm that made the engineers integrate it. Same as hashtags.
I don't seem to remember that. Where was that used? The closest I can think is email, which is where I thought Twitter borrowed it.
I remember hashtags being popularized first by Flickr (maybe @mentions were too?)
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#984Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Groups has also slowly become a killer feature of FB. There are very strong niche communities there; it’s a direct competitor to Reddit in that way. It’s pretty much the only reason I keep opening the FB app, but it is enough to keep me opening it.
They're horrible for archived data. And in technical ones, they encourage people to post the same shit questions over and over. Meta won't encourage any effort, because effort stops people from using it, so you end up with tons of low quality, disorganized, unsearchable shit.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#985Earlier quoted context omitted.
One reason I haven't started Mastodon is that I don't want my experience to be ruled by self-righteous egotistical reddit mods. It's better for users when the admins are professional and checked out.
If only you were so lucky, Mastodon admins are way worse. Not only might they mod at will in the way reddit mods do, Mastodon admins take it several steps further by bothering other instance mods about their moderation. And then yet another step: whom they federate with. They'll form little secret discord channels where they gather and form cancellation pacts on entire instances, based on a whim.
Is this not one of the primary advantages of federation and decentralized networks though? I think that there's a strong argument to be made that Everything networks have a deleterious effect on the collective human psyche because we're simply not designed to contemplate or accommodate so many radically different worldviews at once. Instead of creating societies with a strong emphasis on individual rights we exist in a pressure cooker of mental illness and anger amplified by algorithms that is pushing is closer and closer toward regulating one another out of existence.
Freedom of association is one of the most fundamental freedoms we have and democratic, free market societies can only flourish as long as we all agree to leave one another alone. You or I may not fully agree on the utility of say gay marriage or vaccines or religion or any number of cultural differences, but neither of us should be compelled to seriously entertain or fundamentally alter our way of being and thinking to please the other. This is how the old internet worked, the only reason we feel that it's impossible now is because we've been made to believe in totalizing systems of power that flatten and threaten to erase (by legal mandate or otherwise) different subcultures.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#986I already don’t trust Meta. I’m not giving them more angles to accumulate personal data.
Two qualifiers. I did reserve my full name so it’s not misused and I did sign up with my startup company for marketing.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#987Why have BlueSky taken so long to onboard customers? They had a head start, and they blew it.
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#988Why is no one talking about this extremely important and absurd condition of the Threads app!
"To delete your Threads profile and data, you'll need to delete your instagram account."
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#989Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meta does not have the support of legislators. The EU would regulate any service that would even aspire to become a Western WeChat way before they have any chance to succeed.
Doesnt EU already have somewhat of a WeChat, everybody uses whatsapp there. Definitely Meta already won that market.
>> everybody uses whatsapp there
That claim does not ring true to me. Maybe a few years ago, but now? I don't use whatsapp and I don't know anyone who uses it, except for a group of expats from South America who probably use it because it's still widespread in South America and their friends use it, maybe?
Re: Threads, an Instagram app
#990Anyone 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…
Snapchat is overwhelmingly the primary way my much younger sister uses to talk to people of her age, discord is the second.
It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to with MSN/ICQ etc. and then just use it for DMs. She doesn’t even use Snapchat stories because “no one watches stories” and are just direct DMing her friends, and posts general audience stuff to TikTok.
I immediately went and bought Snapchat shares when I found that out.