Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days
Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app
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This is fine.
Let him break Elon's market lock, we're probably too techy to do it ourselves. Once the market is split between the two of them, it reduces the core value of twitter, which partly depends on population.
That creates a better opportunity for us, it'll be easier to pull from two smaller services than one larger one. Let's just make sure we don't get lost and forgotten, so keep talking about our "new idea" from time to time. Places asides here. irl is ideal.
Oh my god, we're the arch linux users of social media...
Double Arch BTW. Feels great!
Does Rust count as the Arch Linux of programming languages? If so, you can put me down for a triple.
For now. Disruption is disruption. Were you under the impression this was Windows?
I gave you all the ingredients of a shit-tier self-deprecating joke. Go compile it yourself.
Oh, that makes sense. I'm not a Linux guy.
Lol come to think of it, I don't think I've had a single irl conversation about Lemmy. Online is a different story, but that was really localized between here and the.. other place.
The first time someone asks me if I'm a lemming, I'm most likely going to be deeply offended.
Lol. Not sure why we need to have a pet name as users of a service, but whatever, people gonna people.
When I joined reddit 12 years ago it was the same with that site. Reddit was basically the place where nerds hung around
You talk with people in real life? xD
Well, you know, the delivery driver gets an earful.
And the last 55min of certain hourly services.
Intentional sign ups or forced/transferred sign ups is a question I'd like answered
It really depends if they're pushing it through Instagram app, which given the numbers it's likely.
Except for the vocal minority, most people don't really care about Musk to give a damn and move from Twitter to Threads.
They are. Whenever one of your friends on IG posts on Threads, they send you a notification.
The real question will be how many actually stick around. It's pretty trivial to make an account and poke around: it's a different thing entirely to stick around as an active user.
Especially when creating the account is a one way street that can’t be undone without deleting your Instagram account.
I believe that's a bit of a misleading meme that's making the rounds. You can deactivate it, which is functionally the same, and they haven't yet rolled out the feature to delete it because they rushed this thing to market to take advantage of Twitter's dumpster fire.
I also might be slow here, but I struggle to understand why this is a big deal. There are countless reasons why I would have reservations with Meta, but aww shit I can only deactivate not delete the Threads account associated with my source Instagram account seems like a weirdly esoteric hill to die on.
True asshole design right there.
I signed up, checked it out then deleted the app. No interest. When they decouple from ig, I'll delete the account.
I just don’t understand why people would want a timeline they don’t control.
The few minutes I spent checking out Threads just felt like I was being subjected to the advertisement and braaaaaanding version of the Ludovico Technique
It seemed very clear that the entire experience was set up to manipulate you into seeing what they want you to see rather than what you want to curate for yourself.
I really don't have an interest in that sort of manipulation...
That's 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta's very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people's data. That's really and truly a shame. The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
It's probably mainly people that are already on Twitter and/or Facebook so they're not really giving up anything new. To be honest, at this point I'd probably be more willing to trust Zuck with data. At least robots are relatively predictable, Musk seems unhinged.
Huh?
I guess by Elon's logic, Ford and GM could sue him since they created EVs before Tesla did.
Unless they add a view for only people you follow, I just can’t see it taking over Twitter.
But you can switch your view to just people you follow on Twitter
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at least 7, probably even a lot more.
Over 300 million I think, which Threads is not yet even close to.
I believe 300m was the last count.
That's accounts not people...
Besides bots, there's accounts that have sat there inactive for a decade. There are people with 2-3 accounts for different things.
Last i heard it was over 450 million.
this is what comes up upon searching
Off the boiling water, into the fire.
Because Meta is a threat to the Fediverse and we should block everything they create or try to. They want to destroy this place.
They got 70m users in a few days. Mastodon has a few million after a year. I don't think Meta cares about us at all!
Oh care just enough to see us squashed.
Or...not at all.
The users who don't consider Meta a threat can find a server that won't block them. Or start their own.
Admin's website, admin's rules.
I think it sends a good message. That we don't want your corporate garbage at all. From the top down.
This will give you a good idea of which Mastodon instances will federate with Threads:
https://fedipact.veganism.social/
Just create an account at one of the instances that will federate and you're all set.
It's less effort for me to go out and block garbage. If they start blocking stuff I don't want blocked I can either migrate or work on selfhosting.
Nothing is stopping you from joining a server that federates with threads, or even starting your own.
It sounds like you randomly picked an instance, and are mad it's not the right fit for you...
And rather than put in literally 10 seconds of effort to join a new instance, you're just complaining which will accomplish nothing.
You could have joined a new instance in the time it took you to type your comment, or even just read what I just typed...
My understanding is federating with busy instances increases the resources used by that lemmy server. So it’s makes sense to me that an admin blocks whatever they like. This isn’t a paid service, admins are funding this themselves or via very limited donations.
I’m not on lemmy.ml, but from what I’ve read, the majority of users there are dead set against any large corporation looking to encroach on the Fediverse. The mods seem to be following the will of the people.
This is the current list of instances blocked by lemmy.ml, you can view it on lemmy.ml/instances
mandacaru.caatinga.digital lostcheese.com lemilat.ml fc.monkee.ch thu2.closed.social a.tide.tk t.roelroscamabbing.nl kenstroller.fedi.bzh lemmy.glasgow.social collapse.cat lotide.fbxl.net masr.social community.hackliberty.org legbeard.xyz eope.xyz lemmy.subtlefuge.com b.tide.tk elgiebety.pl lemmy.thebitpros.com dev.karab.in wiredentrypoint.xyz verity.fail lemider.me lemmygrad.com delraymisfitsboard.com dev.narwhal.city sportsfeed.me lemmy.mesh.party c.tide.tk narwhal.city wolfballs.com burggit.moe exploding-heads.com pornlemmy.com remmy.dragonpsi.xyz threads.net lemmy.k6qw.com federated.community lemmy.burger.rodeo lemmy.services.coupou.fr lemmy.juggler.jp melonbread.dev lemmynsfw.com bbs.9tail.net