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Lurch

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  1. I'm seeing plenty of news organizations and journalists in my searches.

    Yeah, same. I’m not really following what he’s trying to accomplish here. Is there going to be some effort to restrict their posts? Or just exempt them from amplification? I guess we’ll all learn together when one of them points out specifically how this is impacting them
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  2. Just a reminder that the 3rd party vote went from 5.6% in 2016 to 1.85% in 2020. 

    Yet NoLabels is making serious progress in getting on ballots and will likely post a “compelling” ticket for those not excited about Biden. It’s a legit concern imo
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  3. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe go fuck yourself.

    But seriously, that is a valid approach. Although it can also be done on IG. I just get tired of interacting. In fact, since returning to IG after a break, I have turned off comments on my posts. I don’t need to see the fire emoji. Since photography is not my career, nor do I want it to be, at a base level I don’t really care if I am growing a following. It’s nice and feels good to be appreciated, but not needed.

    I guess my issue is, I used Twitter for news and I used IG for photography (and following other photogs and artists). But since Threads is woven together with IG, it feels like I am compelled to follow everyone that was on my IG. When in reality, if I want it to be a substitute for Twitter, I would only follow a handful of news accounts and some UT related accounts. I am sure others are struggling with this as well.

    Create an alt (but connected) IG account in IG, then use the alt for threads
  4. That's like Tesla complaining about Ford stealing the idea of having a bunch of car dealerships nationwide.

    Totally, but discovery can be a bitch even if the initial claim is spurious. All it takes is one of those former Twitter employees with a poorly worded or even sarcastic/joke internal email saying “we did it like this over at Twitter” for everything to go sideways
  5. I have a hard time understanding what they contend the "secret" is though.
    If it's something that happens under the hood, how would Twitter know that Meta is using it? And if they don't know how Threads works then they would be filling a frivolous lawsuit.
    On the flipside, if it's not something that happens under the hood then how can it be secret? Isn't Threads just a better version of Truth Social?

    It’s just teeing up discovery

    I’d guess the IP they are concerned about is algorithms and scaling,the two obvious places other competitors struggled
  6. I thought I read somewhere that the plan for Threads was to make it work with Mastadon, whatever that means. I recall looking into Mastadon and the sign up method was kinda confusing. 

    As with email, where we can all be on different providers and still communicate together, Threads integrating into the fediverse (where Mastadon already is) would allow them to work together. I could post on Mastadon and you could follow my Mastadon account on Threads and see that post.

    It’s the way this should have worked all along, but is not intuitive enough for general consumers at low scale. With someone like Meta pushing it forward it will finally be more easily embraced
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  7. There's a reason why race is a question on credit applications. It's so the government can penalize Wells Fargo when the data shows they are disproportionally denying non-whites. (plus, you don't have to answer the question if you don't want to)

    Same on job and rental apps
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  8. I feel bad for the Mastadon people-- they had the right idea at the right time, just the wrong product.


    If Threads connects to the fediverse it could actually help Mastadon. Being untethered to a specific provider is the way. It’s highly ironic that it takes Meta to help it scale into viability
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  9. It's been a while, but last I checked it was a pain in the ass to export such lists from twitter.  I think you could get your personal data (what you posted), but I'm not sure about the follower lists.

    Yep, and they fear META investing in solving that problem via scraping. The demand for it is at an all time high, for sure

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  10. I don't think it's arrogant - I think he doesn't really know how much bigger Meta is than Twitter. The suggestion that Meta would "scrape" Twitter for users is beyond absurd and something they would only do for a laugh considering their user base is 10 times what Twitter's is. 
    That entire letter is ridiculous.

    My guess is they’re preempting attempts by meta to enable importing follow lists. Software companies always look for “stickiness” to make transitioning to competitors difficult, and this is theirs
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  11. Sounds like an aggressive but reasonable goal. I was in a very similar place (47, 260#) and calorie counting on LoseIt has worked very well for me. Personally I’ve not seen any added value in fasting for me. Sticking to my calorie budget is already sufficiently challenging that I’d be concerned about burning out by adding additional barriers.

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  12. I wonder if there is going be a court case and/or payoff over the name choice as it appears that there is a company already offering a communications product (slack alternative)  named threads.
     https://threads.com/
     

    I read somewhere Meta or Insta previously had an app called Threads that they killed. Probably still had naming rights secured from that project
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