Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app

Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app

    • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I guess by Elon’s logic, Ford and GM could sue him since they created EVs before Tesla did.

  • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I signed up, checked it out then deleted the app. No interest. When they decouple from ig, I’ll delete the account.

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

      • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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…

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Especially when creating the account is a one way street that can’t be undone without deleting your Instagram account.

      • crowsby@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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?