Perfect, another app I've been desperately waiting for to never ever use.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Another Service that will end up in the DSN blacklist...
In the privacy section of the App Store it shows Threads basically collecting all data on your phone. So I guess standard Meta practice.
Surprised they didn’t list soul in the list of things collected
Is this the federation killer?
I believe it’s based of activitypub like federated protocol. But doesn’t stop facebook from forking it to a point where its just as good as defederated. As much as i hate facebook; i would like for there being competition for twitter, so monopoly can be challenged!
I can already smell the amount of bots...
anything to see twitter die
But i also want to see meta die
May they both take enough users from the other that neither is viable. And may the rest of us carry on independently.
Space Karen doing her best to this to happen.
Imposing a view limit on a website that mainly makes money from views is genius
Why would I join a worse version of facebook?
I could see this actually gaining popularity from their Instagram user base. Twitter doesn't attract younger people or influencers. It'll be like discovering Facebook for gen z, where they can also share text posts. Maybe that'll attract the people who left Twitter for turning alt-right. If it gets big enough, public figures could even leave Twitter. I'd be shocked if that happened, but a gal can hope.
This isn't something I have any interest and I hate meta as much as anyone else here, but I'm interested in seeing how it will play out. If we can't escape capitalism, at least we can watch it as a social experiment.
It’ll play out just the same as XMPP and Google Chat did in the 2000s
I don't think young people are attracted to text-based social media
They might become interested once they have a platform that targets them. I know it's a little different from people who jumped on to MySpace or early Facebook because we started with text posts, not really pictures. It's still true that younger people love to post their thoughts or opinions thinking that others care as much as they do.
It could also be a good tool for "celebrities" to directly interact with their followers. Instagram's interface isn't really set up for that.
Unpopular opinion, but I will try it, try to connect it to my fediverse instance then try to promote fediverse and my fediverse account in thread.