•  ericjmorey   ( @ericjmorey@beehaw.org ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    50
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Any opinions on the culture that has developed since yesterday is premature at best.

    On the technical side they had over 1 30 million accounts register in 24 hours. The site service didn’t crash. That’s impressive.

    I’m assuming that it will never federate with activity pub, I hope I’m correct.

  •  ozoned   ( @ozoned@beehaw.org ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    103 months ago

    The Jake Paul giving away $5,000 to someone that boosts his message is just disgusting. Those people see a CELEBRITY just oh so generously giving away money! YAY! I see someone in a position of power saying “DANCE MONKIES” for what’s peanuts to him and helps his celebrity even more and that’s fucking disgusting.

  • The only positive I can see coming from “Threads” is, that people are aware of Twitter alternatives and probably learn about Mastodon too. But most people on Facebook and Instagram don’t care that is the company Facebook behind it. Therefore they would not care about Mastodon either. Or any other alternative similar to it, as there are not millions of people.

    As for Threads, I think it will stay relevant. Will it take over Twitter? Maybe, probably not. They do not federate with Activity Pub, therefore it is not relevant to me. “Just” another service I don’t care, similar to Tik Tok. And to be honest here, I would like them to federate.

        • Copy pasted from my other comment:


          There’s been lots of discussions about this already, but the short version is that this is a play book tactic used by big companies to take over a sector.

          I didn’t experience this at the time, so the details might be off, but one example, as I understand it, is what Google did with Google Messages a decade ago or so. They federated using some other service that existed before Activity Pub I think, and most casual users just flocked to it with no idea about any federation. Once it got big, they just stopped federating, and anyone who was not on Google Messages but had friends who were (which most did since GM was so popular) had to change to GM.

          Other similar such things have happened before with other products and in other markets, and that’s what people fear will happen with threads.

            • The first problem is that Beehaw can barely handle the load it has now, if you connect it to 100 million people and just one post or comment gains traction, Beehaw gets the experience of an accidental DDoS attack.

              There are many other technical and social issues that will be created. Some of which have easy solutions some of which may not have any solutions at all, none of which I want to deal with.

            •  cnqr   ( @cnqr@beehaw.org ) 
              link
              fedilink
              English
              23 months ago

              People are going the reddit hivemind again in lemmy.

              Just repeating in echo chambers without rationale.

              If you look at my history, I’ve been trying to get some useful information regarding Threads, but have received much less useful comments than I would even receive on reddit.

              Personally, I’d really like to access to Threads from my anonymous account on another instance, since Threads account is strictly tied to an Instagram account.

              I guess it’s the nature of social media nowadays. Lots of noise, very little actual signal.

              • There’s been lots of discussions about this already, but the short version is that this is a play book tactic used by big companies to take over a sector.

                I didn’t experience this at the time, so the details might be off, but one example, as I understand it, is what Google did with Google Messages a decade ago or so. They federated using some other service that existed before Activity Pub I think, and most casual users just flocked to it with no idea about any federation. Once it got big, they just stopped federating, and anyone who was not on Google Messages but had friends who were (which most did since GM was so popular) had to change to GM.

                Other similar such things have happened before with other products and in other markets, and that’s what people fear will happen with threads.

                •  cnqr   ( @cnqr@beehaw.org ) 
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  13 months ago

                  Except reddit or lemmy doesn’t have a big concept of persistent friends or connections.

                  Why would you care where some random moves to? I don’t know anyone here and no one knows me. That’s the beauty of it. That’s why it’s different than other platforms and past occurrences.

            •  hastati   ( @hastati@beehaw.org ) 
              link
              fedilink
              English
              23 months ago

              Not OP, but I don’t want anything associated with Meta, Twitter, Reddit or any other social media monolith involved in the Fediverse. It feels like inviting a mafia boss to dinner and someone saying “Hey! He’s just here for dinner!”

              • And why not? I ask this third time in row now. What problem do you expect? Can someone call me at least one problem? The Fediverse is for connecting people. If your instance don’t like the Meta instance, they can block it. It’s a different server and they only have power over their own server! That’s the whole point of Fediverse and Activity Pub! If Meta, Twitter and Reddit is playing with the rules, then I am for it! Everyone benefits.

  • This article was so cringe. Don’t get me wrong not a fan of the Zuck but Theads seems pretty decent, just not my jam (but neither was Twitter). Seems way cleaner than Twitter and the structure is solid when I want to look at comments of a post.