I don't understand who was drawn to the app where brands just talk to eachother in marvel quips.<p>Has anything been happening on threads at all? any culture, inside jokes, etc?
It’s also starting to test federation over ActivityPub, excited about that mainly.<p>I wish Instagram federated as well, so I could follow friends from there easily.
maybe it's my own bubble, but i literally know zero people that actually use threads.<p>most people i know used the day it was launched then... just stopped using it.
Meta is becoming a new Google. They keep launching and hyping stuff no one needs. Just curious how long it would take for them to retire this.<p>It's sad that FAANG, despite all the money, are not able to develop a single useful product. All they know is to buy and ruin competition.
After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks.
There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.
"launches for nearly half a billion more users" is a weird way to put it. They are not users yet, they are a market, or potential users in other words. If I release an app, I'd feel disingenuous telling that I "launched an app for 7.8 billion users"
Personally, as long as it’s owned my Meta, i just see “Threats” as the name. With this, i mean to data sniffing and privacy concerns. Plus, as much as it seems a good product, how long will it take to be “enshittified”?<p>It seems to me the latest “social medias” have the same formula, launch as a decent app, gather a massive user base, business realise the money potential, the application gets uglier with time as Ads are everywhere and content is generated by bots.<p>One interesting feature is thar they’re trying the ActivityPub protocol, which will allow them to interconnect with Mastodon servers. This is also not all good, as it means they’ll start to sniff data from there. But, at least i can block the threads server entirely preventing this :)