i know the fediverse has been pretty split and a lot of big instances (mainly microblogging and mastodon-like softwares, but some lemmy instances are defederating meta too) but what do you think?
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It’s Eembrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) all over again. It has happen countless times, and will keep happening. I can’t believe people still fall for it.
Meta wants to capture the twitter refugees, and they will do the same thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
No need. If I wanted corpo social media, I’d be on reddit/twitter instead of lemmy/mastodon
Fuck Meta, they are cancer.
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Fuck facebook. That all I have to say.
I think Carrot said it best.I think I’ll never knowingly use a Meta product.
Installed it, saw my feed was full of people I didn’t follow, with no option to only view posts from followers, immediately uninstalled.
Once I followed people and accounts I wanted to see, their feeds automatically took over. What you saw was Meta filling the feed with something so average users don’t see an empty void and give up.
I’ll never use a Facebook product if I can help it.
Why would I leave one shit stain’s platform for another’s?
Mastodon already exists, they didn’t need to bother
Not needed. We have mastodon. It has it’s quirks but in the long run is much better than twitter
I’ve taken a look around and it’s pretty early so not a lot of uptake. It will live or die by how many people actively use it. The built in follower base with instagram is pretty enticing. I was surprised to see a reference to the fediverse right up front. Might just be pandering, but we will see!
Use it to link back to Lemmy posts.
I think they’ll do quite well, it’s a perfect landing spot for Twitter refugees not willing/techie enough to take the leap to Mastodon. Y’know, the normals. Particularly if it’s well-integrated with Instagram.
Is that a good thing? Ie do I want to see Twitter fail more than I want Meta to not be successful…? That’s a fucking tricky one!
A shit product name using a generic commonly used term.
I already fell into misinterpreting a post title about it. So unnecessary.
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The lack of ‘only people you follow’ tab is a huge over sight, that’s the thing I use the most because I’m rarely interested in any app’s recommendations.
So my two theories are:
- This was a rushed launch to capitalize on the latest Twitter shit show and the home timeline wasn’t done yet.
- They didn’t want people to log into Threads and see nothing if none of their other follows have activated yet, so instead they force you to see everything so you don’t run out of content and disengage.
Either way I’d expect to see it soon.
Your second point is the same guess as mine. Although you might be right about rushing the app out the door. They knew Bluesky is on the horizon and Mastodon was picking up users.
Once I followed people and accounts I wanted to see, their feeds automatically took over. What you saw was Meta filling the feed with something so average users don’t see an empty void and give up.
A friend who signed up at the same time was seeing my activity too. If I responded to someone, he could see it and join in the conversation, and vice versa. I actually didn’t how Threads took this route. I personally found it more appealing than Twitter and Mastodon when I first signed up and had nothing but an empty feed and had to go find everyone.
