Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days
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
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...
dont mind if twitter and threads are fighting each other
I guess by Elon's logic, Ford and GM could sue him since they created EVs before Tesla did.
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.
That’s 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta’s very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people’s data.
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.
The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
Huh?
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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.
Off the boiling water, into the fire.
Apparently, lemmy.ml already blocked Threads before Threads started using ActivityPub.
Personally speaking, I don't like it if administrators start deciding for all users on their server what they can and cannot see (although they obviously have the right to do so).
If I want to follow a community or user in Threads, why should an administrator of a Lemmy server be able to prevent me from doing that? It also sounds rather silly, as it's terribly easy to create multiple accounts on various Lemmy servers and read Threads posts that way.
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!
Except:
Why would you want an administrator to make those decisions on your behalf?
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...
I'm not registered on this instance, so your comment is completely wrong. It's also a personal attack, but you don't even know me.
As soon as an administrator starts deciding I cannot access Threads, I obviously will move if I want to see Threads posts.
I'm quite dumbstruck however by the large amount of people that think an administrator should block a server like Threads even before they have started using ActivityPub.
These complaints make no sense. Join an instance that federated with them or make your own instance. Mods making decisions! Think of the children!
Just choose new mods. You can do that here.
Apparently
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
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.
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.
For now. Disruption is disruption. Were you under the impression this was Windows?
You talk with people in real life? xD
Well, you know, the delivery driver gets an earful.