I’ve still got a Facebook and Instagram account mostly to keep in touch with friends and family. Fuck no to joining another one of Zuckerberg’s apps though
I don’t know why you’d switch from the clusterfuck that is Twitter to anything made by Meta, one of the worst tech companies out there. It’s like trading a turd for a piece of shit.
Mastodon is the only reasonable alternative IMO, the only problem is that not enough people are on there.
The content is very generic, a lot of people trying to subtly beg for followers, but the worst part is there is no following feed at all, just one (poorly so far) curated page.
Once hashtags (& maybe trends) get added, we will get a honeymoon phase, before it all gets bloated TF. Give it a few months and we will have Threads Stories, THCAST for long-form audio/podcasts (with AI transcription), e-commerce Thread Shops…
Yep. Looks like they made it to minimal-viable-product.
Now they’re going to be in enticement mode, so everyone there’s going to be nice, moderation’s going to be better (not great, but less sucky), and they’ll work to keep the riff-raff out.
Later comes the Extend-Extinguish part of the Three E’s, the festooning with ads, the constant exhortations to upgrade to Premium™, the sudden incompatibility with anything not Meta, and enough tracking to make Big Brother envious.
Agree with everything except the tracking; that’s got to be built into it since day one, unless they didn’t manage to hit their harvesting goals by the stated release date, which they want to hit in order to compete with twitter asap
What does it mean for it to be like Instagram but for text? Instagram I thought would be inseparable from photos. It’s akin to saying “like YouTube but for text.” What does that mean?
It’s clean, intuitive UI is almost a clone of IG. They’ve then just reversed the primary content from photos to text, & strapped it with Twitter-like features (reposts, quote reposts etc.)
Ah that’s interesting. Amazing to see them actually respecting a copyright. They could still have gone with Facebook, though. I think the Instagram halo is real.
Not really “respecting” but more like avoiding to engage what seems to be an actual patent/trademark troll. Because I checked the brand’s site and it doesn’t seem to be working, but the patent is still held
No! - I’m not a dumbfuck. Mark Zuckerberg once said people who trust him with their personal information are dumbfucks. I have never had an account on any of his platforms, and never will. If something I’m using integrated with his products I’d just stop using it. Just no!
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