Threads, an Instagram app
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Say more with Threads — Instagram's new text app.

Within the first hour of threads going live, about a dozen of those im following on ig have joined (and began posting). When it’s fully federated, could this be the entry level platform the fediverse needs to push it into average use? I have a slight feeling it’ll be a BeReal type scenario where people use it for a few months and then move on, but id be stoked to be able to have my friends and family see my posts on mastodon/lemmy.

  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Threads will mainstream threads.
    Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
    Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
    When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.

    The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it’s temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).

      • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Maybe the client is faster/prettier/can show videos/uses less data/integrates with their phone better.
        Maybe it’s got features that clients here lack such as the ability to host larger images or video.
        Maybe the user is sick of responding to conversations over there and it not being federated, so they are ignored.
        Maybe using the Threads app is just faster (because it’s local instead of batch federating).

        If I was in charge of product design for Threads, I would be literally crawling the issue listings for Lemmy/Kbin and the associated clients looking for complaints and implementing solutions for those problems.
        Then I would make a list of every limitation within the system and make sure Threads exceeds that baseline.

        And then when I had made the software better in every measurable way (because I am paying a large team of developers to target those pain points), I’d start adding features that ActivityPub doesn’t, especially if ActivityPub instances would find those features hard to implement.

        I’d make damn sure that every time ActivityPub changes from a source outside Meta, I’d drag my heels on implementing that feature, so that instance hosts are forced to choose between implementing the new version, or maintaining compatability with Threads.

        Why would a user here move there?
        Because their spouse/coworker/friend tried to send something for the 50th time and the message just never came through.

          • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            I’m only one voice screaming in the darkness, but I want to be clear.
            These are not risks. These are certainties.
            And the only thing we can do about it is refuse to participate in their bad faith actions, for whatever good that will do.

          • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            20 years of professional developer experience and some outsider knowledge of what Facebook has done in the past.

            I’m not a cheap whore Meta, I expect to get PAID.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think we want to be hoping for such a thing.

    Maybe it’ll turn out to be something good, but there are good reasons mastodon/twitter bridging was despised.

    • sab@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing. For me this was also an enlightening reminder what an Mastodon and the Fediverse is not.

  • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Keep in mind that right now, all of the big names posting are paid content. It’s probably not labeled as such, but they’re all on Meta’s payroll to make the platform attractive to new users. Will it take off? It actually has a decent chance. Not because of anything that they’re doing, but because of exactly how badly Twitter is fucking things up right now. People want out, and most couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t make the jump to Mastodon when everything with Musk started. This now looks like a viable alternative to them.

    But no, I don’t want Facebook to destroy this beautiful new thing I just found.

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Three hours since official launch and top personalities have already amassed 100K+ followers. Not sure what the official headcount is on Mastodon these days but those counts already surpass the total number of users on Lemmy.