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Flash in the pan. Replacing Twitter won’t happen with Facebook clones.
At least not until there’s a damn web version.
Lol, this funny trend of having a stupid ass homepage that just links to an app store.
It’s for the data harvesting they get from your phone.
Twitter had the most data harvesting with news sites embedding tweets. Can’t do that with an app and no web.
That is likely a benefit but let’s be honest the real reason is that a web version would require a lot of additional overhead especially to staff enough engineers.
This makes no sense honestly. Making a captive web app is easier than supporting two apps.
Easier doesn’t mean better though.
A web wrapper for the platform would be effectively no effort, especially for a company like Facebook. The difficulties would be losing out on tracking data and dealing with annoyances like adblock
I wouldn’t be surprised if they are working on something now and just wanted to get the app out as an mvp.
And despite that I can’t believe some people are still not highly skeptical of federating with meta as though there isn’t over a decade of privacy infringing business practices. Instead wanting to hear them out after they just went through deleting content from reddit because they didn’t want to provide value to Spez, but they are fine with providing content for meta users to interact with for Zuckerberg?
Expected it. It’s a cheap Twitter clone with the downsides of using Meta social networks. When was new, people wanted to try it, specially since there’s a lot of hate towards Twitter lately.
Reminds me of the old saying: “how do you make a million dollars in the stock market? Start with a billion”
Start with a billion visitors, then snag 100 million, then keep 1 million then blaghole the site
Someone accidentally shutdown the bot farm
This is expected? New service, people flock, it’s not for everyone that flocked, buzz dies down
I’ll stick with Mastodon in any case
No hashtags, no anonymity…. Threads has no purpose and is likely to fail unless this changes
no anonymity
I doubt that Instagram users who willingly install an another app made by Facebook care about that lol
They want anonymity from relatives/friends. Most people don’t care much about advertisers knowing their interests.
Shocking news
Yeah, the novelty of it will fizzle out. Some will call it their new home. Others will go back to Twitter or other. Some will check back in periodically.
And half of movement there is just bots reposting shit from twitter. Indeed great success.
I’m sure there’s at least a few ChatGPT bots too!
I mean, to be honest, I feel like it’s the quality of the content in there. I used my old phone (the one I use for apps like threads) to get a threads account and people are using Threads as if they’re using instagram.
For example, you see a pocture of someone or a drawing, you get into the post to see the 45 comments people left and all of them are:
Comment #1: “Magnificent 🥰😍” #2: “Amazing 🤩” #3: “WOW!! 🔥🔥”
And so on.
At least in twitter there is more “discussion” (albeit toxic and usually useless) or at least more people sometimes talking about interesting things.
I guess it turns out that when you pretty much automatically port over so the Instagram users they treat it like Instagram.
That’s pretty much exactly what I expected. Instagram is exactly like this. Filled to the brim with fake engagement, bots, and an occasional real person account, who also happens to be doing things that horribly affect people’s mental health
the only reason it has any users is that it gave some fakeout on insta UI that your friends were talking about you on threads and, as per Meta usual, it was all bullshit. typical zuccing egotism for his upcoming cagematch.
toxic and useless dont really summarize it imo- last few times I went there the top 10-15 comments were just screaming right wingers yelling about a conspiracy of some sort no matter what the topic is
Looking in the replies of any new scientific discovery is infuriating, they’re all spouting inane shit about how “science changed its story, so it has no credibility, this is proof that the earth is flat and 6000 years old.”
It was alright I guess the first week, but really the big part that interested me was the Fediverse, and I really do hope people jump off Threads to come use other platforms.
Some might not and I wish Meta goes by there work and does Fediverise to allow those users to use the wider Fediverse
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Probably because it’s a complete mess. I joined as I was curious and don’t really care if I have to delete my Instagram account to get rid of my Threads account. You follow people and then barely see their updates.
From what I’ve heard about the feel it’s a giant data (=cash) grab. Sorta like how Google+ was a me-too and never took off.
The massive inrush is like what happens when the new restaurant opens in town. Everyone goes once or twice to check it out but if it sucks it will still fail even if it is super busy the first week.
“Last week, the text-based social media platform reported a record 100 million sign-ups in just five days.”
LOL The biggest bullshit of the year… Meta just created shadow accounts of all Instagram users, without their knowledge or consent…
Is there a way to check if a user account exists for my instagram account without logging in?
I saw this in browser: You can go the person Instagram account and see if they have a thread logo next to it.
people reported already having followers before ever using the platform, meaning all people automatically had an account created for them. that (and many other things) is also very legally problematic in the EU which is why the service isnt available here.
It’s not hard to understand what was happening.
- I follow Person A and Person A follows me on Instagram
- Person A signs up for Threads before me
- I sign up for Threads after
- Because we already follow each other on Instagram, Threads automatically made Person A follow me
The issue with the EU is you can’t mingle and mix user data from two separate services.
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Sole benefit of Brexit identified. We get to hand over our data to meta before you guys. It’s all been worth it.
“An account was already created for them” because it’s the same Meta account. You can just follow people when you start your account without them necessarily activating threads.
Wasn’t it announced to be the case? So it’s “just” without consent, which is already bad enough.
Not to mention all the spam bots they fail to actually ban after multiple people report.
Bots generate user engagement! Granted, it’s bad engagement, but it also generates jobs for the moderator
AIteams
Exactly. Everybody checked what is this about, then stopped gave shit and here we are
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100 million isn’t that much when it comes to Meta. There’s over 2 billion “active” Instagram users that all were prompted to download the app. That means only 0.005% of Instagram accounts fell for it.
I have no doubt that at least that many people tried it out. When I went to the Android App store, Meta was paying for a front and center promotion of Threads.
Your maths is a little off there: 100m is 5%
while you’re correct based on instagram’s numbers, the other commenter would be correct if it was a British billion which is a million millions. just a fun fact 🦄
That’s true, although the long scale billion hasn’t been a thing even in Britain for decades.
If it’s fun facts you like, try this: English is the clear odd one out, most other languages use milliard for 10^9 and billion for 10^12.
milliard - love it ty for that. Reminds me of: French: L’ananas Italian: L’ananas Icelandic: Ananas Portuguese: O ananás Swedish: Ananas German: Die Ananas
English: Pineapple
IT’S JUST A FEW DECIMAL PLACES GIVE ME A BREAK 😆
What’s a few decimal places among friends, right?
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Well, technically… they said “users”, not “people”. Maybe there are 2E12-1E8 bots… 🙃
Eh… Check your math…
Right? Seems like he is off by a couple digits, unless we are missing something
Expected. They haven’t added lots of essential features yet so it doesn’t even have anywhere near feature parity with Twitter, making it more pleasant and useful for people to Twitter.
