Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th, according to the App Store
Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th, according to the App Store
Meta’s next app will try to make Instagram the new Twitter
In the privacy section of the App Store it shows Threads basically collecting all data on your phone. So I guess standard Meta practice.
10Surprised they didn’t list soul in the list of things collected
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6It’s tied to Instagram, and lots of people exchange instagram as a form of contact (which is weird already), so it’s already got huge potential once people find out about it. It’s very possible it supplants Twitter with how that’s going.
2A lawsuit for what exactly? You can’t sue a company just for making a new product unless they somehow abuse their position to promote their product at the expense of other similar products.
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Why would I join a worse version of facebook?
3Perfect, another app I've been desperately waiting for to never ever use.
3Another Service that will end up in the DSN blacklist...
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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.
1I don't think young people are attracted to text-based social media
0They 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.
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Is this the federation killer?
1Do you want to go from one corporate social media option to another corporate social media option? Then for you, maybe it is!
It uses ActivityPub, so it's not gaining you anything over other options. I'm quite happy to never interact with them.
3ActivityPub, so it's not gaining you anything over other options.
Not quite. The usual next step for meta would be to enhance ActivityPub so there's a better UX. Then it attracts more users and open ActivityPub will be a nieche thing again.
Whether Lemmy devs like it or not, they are in a competition with huge companies.
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anything to see twitter die
0But i also want to see meta die
1May they each take enough users from the other that neither is viable. And may the rest of us carry on independently.
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