Honestly this is what I think everyone has wanted for a while. It's a stripped down version of Twitter from years ago without any of the nonsense and ads, and a straightforward ui/ux. And it already has your profile information from Instagram and everyone you already follow and/or friends with so there is little to no setup required which makes the onboarding essentially one or two taps.<p>edit:
and yes I know the irony of "no ads or nonsense" (yet), but as a way of getting people to join (in the near term) its a pro.
I wonder how soon Meta moderation policies will kill this platform.<p>Elon of course abuse his power to ban those he dislike and to ban trackers of his plane (and to help some dictator war criminals while he at it), but Facebook / Instagram censorship and bans are pretty random, harsh and irreversible.<p>Platform by Meta likely mean that good chunk of Twitter audience is not allowed to use it: some journalists reporting on war crimes, OSint, anything related to porn and gambling, sex workers, etc. Twitter is full of shit, but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.
Again though if you want a fresh account based on a specific area of interest to work from, Meta will not let you. They need your real name your real phone number and have the all profile details for your phone (Android permission). Nope.<p>On twitter I have a handle and it follows other 3D XR accounts and thats all I am interested in. It's social but its within a specific professional context.<p>I still have no idea why Meta will not let you keep separate identities. It might have been prevailing wisdom when Facebook and LinkedIn got started but it is anachronistic now in the 2020s
A pretty terrible initial experience of being thrown into a pit of blue checked instagram influencers that I do not recognize or care to follow.<p>I am not sure how much I'll use this unless it receives a feature to filter out the white noise of terrible suggested posts from the algorithm.
Hard pass. No longer doomscrolling and chasing adrenaline fixes on social media has improved my quality of life immeasurably. Obviously to each their own, but I've given up looking for a non-toxic social media platform.
At this rate, in its first 24 hours Threads will probably accumulate more user accounts than Mastodon has in its 7 year history. (~13.2M at the moment: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount</a>)
Looks like they're having some performance issues - loading a profile doesn't seem to work:<p><a href="https://www.threads.net/@zuck" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.threads.net/@zuck</a>
NYT's Hard Fork podcast did an interview with the one of the key people working on Threads. If you were curious about the official Meta position on all your concerns and want answers to questions you have, that's the one to listen to.<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-...</a>
Given Instagram’s 2.35 billion users, is 5 million a lot?<p>Im genuinely curious. Don’t get me wrong, the headline number <i>looks</i> impressive, but isn’t 1 million / hour kind of expected at this scale?
[dupe]<p>Merge/see more discussion over here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632</a>
Any info on when the app will become available outside the US?<p>edit: not sure why I‘m getting downvoted, didn’t realize it was mostly about me being in Europe
I am very much enjoying the ui, and feel like twitter is killing it's network effect while this is doing the opposite for now. This won't be the end of twitter, not globally. Some say Pepsi was the best thing to ever happen to Coca-cola.