ManaByte
Member
With no advertisers and no one to pay for blue check marks, Elon won’t be able to keep the app running. Hell last weekend showed that.
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Meta launches Instagram-linked Twitter replacement “Threads” tomorrow
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Unknown Soldier
Member
Yes, Google+ hit 200 million signups the first month or whatever. We all know where Google+ is now.
The reality is Instagram has 2 billion users, and yet both the IG Snapchat and TikTok clones are dead. Let's see how the Twitter clone does long term.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri:
Leaves a gap for another platform to become a source for hard news and things like government institutions sharing information.
Reading between the lines, it also means they're trying to avoid being flooded with the kind of *wink wink* "free speech" advocates that flooded Twitter when Musk eliminated trust and safety. Which is a very good move business wise. Attract them advertisers and assure the other decentralized networks that it's ok to federate with you.
If they actually manage to make good on this early vision, and take the necessary steps to meet the completely reasonable privacy demands of the EU, I may just say F it and make a Threads account once they separate it from Instagram.
Leaves a gap for another platform to become a source for hard news and things like government institutions sharing information.
Reading between the lines, it also means they're trying to avoid being flooded with the kind of *wink wink* "free speech" advocates that flooded Twitter when Musk eliminated trust and safety. Which is a very good move business wise. Attract them advertisers and assure the other decentralized networks that it's ok to federate with you.
If they actually manage to make good on this early vision, and take the necessary steps to meet the completely reasonable privacy demands of the EU, I may just say F it and make a Threads account once they separate it from Instagram.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Post fits the news community pretty well.The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri:
Leaves a gap for another platform to become a source for hard news and things like government institutions sharing information.
Reading between the lines, it also means they're trying to avoid being flooded with the kind of *wink wink* "free speech" advocates that flooded Twitter when Musk eliminated trust and safety. Which is a very good move business wise. Attract them advertisers and assure the other decentralized networks that it's ok to federate with you.
If they actually manage to make good on this early vision, and take the necessary steps to meet the completely reasonable privacy demands of the EU, I may just say F it and make a Threads account once they separate it from Instagram.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No politics? Good move. Sounds a lot like another site I like 
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
No politics? Good move. Sounds a lot like another site I like
I don't imagine myself spending much time on Threads once I finally make an account, but it will be refreshing to have a very large platform that won't foster any of that stuff - of any kind. Just show me some art, movie and TV news, sell me some new Nike's, whatever.
MrMephistoX
Member
But see this is precisely the reason I preferred Twitter: it’s like the CNN of social: fucking weird when it’s a slow news cycle but an invaluable utility for actual breaking news.The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri:
Leaves a gap for another platform to become a source for hard news and things like government institutions sharing information.
Reading between the lines, it also means they're trying to avoid being flooded with the kind of *wink wink* "free speech" advocates that flooded Twitter when Musk eliminated trust and safety. Which is a very good move business wise. Attract them advertisers and assure the other decentralized networks that it's ok to federate with you.
If they actually manage to make good on this early vision, and take the necessary steps to meet the completely reasonable privacy demands of the EU, I may just say F it and make a Threads account once they separate it from Instagram.
On threads I see shit like this and I’m not even following this person or anyone of their followers.
I’m a closet Swifty but still who the fuck is this and why am I at the mercy of the Facebook algorithm?
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
But see this is precisely the reason I preferred Twitter: it’s like the CNN of social: fucking weird when it’s a slow news cycle but an invaluable utility for actual breaking news.
On threads I see shit like this and I’m not even following this person or anyone of their followers.
I’m a closet Swifty but still who the fuck is this and why am I at the mercy of the Facebook algorithm?
I have been known to crank Love Story in the car when I am in a good mood.
ManaByte
Member
You’re only like the 70,000,001 person to complain about there not being a “following” feed. They said it’s coming.But see this is precisely the reason I preferred Twitter: it’s like the CNN of social: fucking weird when it’s a slow news cycle but an invaluable utility for actual breaking news.
On threads I see shit like this and I’m not even following this person or anyone of their followers.
I’m a closet Swifty but still who the fuck is this and why am I at the mercy of the Facebook algorithm?
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That's a lot of bots.
Wildebeest
Member
People are happy to let Zuck use their private data however he wants, but not so happy with Elon doing then same while shaking them down for cash and memeing on them.
funkygunther
Banned
Please someone tell me this isn't a real tweet. Please lol
Yes it’s real, it’s in reply to the news about trade secrets and whatnot. Musk’s posts in the last day are mostly memes about Zuckerberg and concern over Threads.
ManaByte
Member
Completely ignoring how Musk has crippled the app, even if you pay to use it.
FunkMiller
Member
Please someone tell me this isn't a real tweet. Please lol
Fuck me, he really has lost it.
LegendOfKage
Member
Good. Between demanding account signups to read twitter, and limiting twitter even for those who do have accounts, he deserves to panic. If I paid for my ads to be on twitter and all of a sudden you needed an account to see my ads, I'd be livid. If he just did nothing at twitter other than sit on his hands, he'd literally be doing a better job than he is now.This is why Musk is in a panic:
I still don't want to see him fail, though. I just want him to stop ruining his own site.
Eotheod
Member
Web billionaires fighting is so damn weak, like kids yelling stupid shit at each other.
DKehoe
Member
"If you were the inventor of Threads, you'd have invented Threads"
Please someone tell me this isn't a real tweet. Please lol
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Please someone tell me this isn't a real tweet. Please lol
That's one way to reframe the conversation, I guess. Good luck proving cheating.
gimmmick
Member
Instagram is struggling? It’s the only social media service most Millennials use on a daily basis lol.
ManaByte
Member
Insta was always bigger than Twitter.
Meicyn
Gold Member
F R E E
S P E E C H
GymWolf
Member
Do hamsters even care about politics? What laws do you have? How many seeds you can put in your mouth or something?No politics? Good move. Sounds a lot like another site I like
FunkMiller
Member
I don’t think I’ve seen anything more pathetic in my life than Captain Free Speech banning anything he sees as a threat.
The Musk fans must be chewing on their Tesla stock. He’s completely destroyed any impression that he’s a competent businessman. Over a fucking social media platform
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Thaedolus
Member
ftfy
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Successful leaders own the failures, not spread the blame. Musk will live through this but the mystique is gone. All that is left is a spoiled manchild with an impregnation fetish.
nightmare-slain
Member
despite my earlier post as above i have to admit my curiousity got the better of me so i downloaded Instagram and made an account. Instagram is boring as fuck. It feels like a cheap TikTok rip off (yeah I know IG came first). i didn't even bother downloading Threads. requested that my account be deleted but I have until 6th August to change my mind.
I'm still good on Twitter for now. I'd probably have kept the IG account but I really hate how invasive META is. The amount of tracking that showed up in my App Report is fucking insane. Why are people more than happy to let these companies harvest all their data and track them? Maybe I'm the stupid one for caring about privacy.
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I wonder if selling your low # account will ever be worth anything.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Only if you make an NFT of it
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I prefer my tokens to be fungible.
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nightmare-slain
Member
I didn't even make an Instagram account until yesterday so I don't know what has been going on. Just from what I've been reading I got the impression that it was struggling (a bit). Maybe it was because of TikTok taking off? I know Instagram isn't going anywhere any time soon.
LordOfChaos
Member
It's kinda fun so far
100% reminds me of early 2010s facebook cringe when no one really knew how to use it and were just like "is using the washroom" because statuses used to start with "Name is ___", but it's fun, good vibe so far though it's all just goofin and nothing substantial yet
100% reminds me of early 2010s facebook cringe when no one really knew how to use it and were just like "is using the washroom" because statuses used to start with "Name is ___", but it's fun, good vibe so far though it's all just goofin and nothing substantial yet
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Maiden Voyage
is handling the sausage today
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
I don’t think I’ve seen anything more pathetic in my life than Captain Free Speech banning anything he sees as a threat.
The Musk fans must be chewing on their Tesla stock. He’s completely destroyed any impression that he’s a competent businessman. Over a fucking social media platform
He even banned technology specialists and journalists who merely corrected his lies or pointed out obvious things about his platform when he didn't seem to understand it. He's manifestly the exact opposite of a "free speech absolutist". Like I said many threads ago, anyone who uses such teenaged boy level terminology means the exact opposite of what they're saying.
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Unknown Soldier
Member
Calling him "Elmo" is Resetera class shit. Try to be better than the purple site, or fuck off there where they hate him 24/7 like you seem to want to.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I can't wait to not look at those.