"I’m on Threads" meta thread

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16 minutes ago, RPM said:

He's 1 step away from becoming the new MySpace at any given moment.

And like the MySpace people (and GeoCities), he probably doesn't realize that he's at a bit of a tipping point.  He may be the 14th or 15th largest social media platform in the world, but once upon a time the MySpace people were pretty full of themselves - hell, they were the most visited internet site in 2006 or 2007 (passing up Yahoo) and had 300 million users (which was freaking huge back in 2007).  And a huge part of MySpace's downfall was that it got spammy and overrun with a lot of shady people/shit.  It didn't help that Fox wouldn't let up on the ads or trying to make it something it wasn't (a portal for all things Fox).

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

And like the MySpace people (and GeoCities), he probably doesn't realize that he's at a bit of a tipping point.  He may be the 14th or 15th largest social media platform in the world, but once upon a time the MySpace people were pretty full of themselves - hell, they were the most visited internet site in 2006 or 2007 (passing up Yahoo) and had 300 million users (which was freaking huge back in 2007).  And a huge part of MySpace's downfall was that it got spammy and overrun with a lot of shady people/shit.  It didn't help that Fox wouldn't let up on the ads or trying to make it something it wasn't (a portal for all things Fox).

That describes what Facebook is now more than Twitter. Holy hell Facebook feeds are terrible now. Might see 1 or 2 posts from friends and the rest are just suggested articles and ads.

[Celery Man 20,569]

It’s not as bad if you have friends.

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Mosseri posted an update

Fediverse update thread 🔔🧵For those of you who don't know, @Threads is being built on the ActivityPub protocol, which means that it will be interoperable with other apps/servers like Mastodon over time. This week we took a small, but important, step by allowing people in the Fediverse, who don't use Threads or even have an Instagram account, to follow my Threads account as well as a few others. Content is starting to flow from Threads to the Fediverse.

We are working to make this option available to all public accounts on Threads, not just a handful of testers. We're starting small to make sure we have time to work through all the challenges, as our systems historically have been not been designed with this use case in mind.

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https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C4yMa0Gxxph

First post in the fediverse!

We're making progress integrating Threads into the fediverse and launching a beta in a few countries that lets people choose to federate their posts. If you see this and turn it on from your profile, you'll see likes from federated platforms appear on your posts here.

 

When you post on Threads, your post will appear on other social media apps in the fediverse, such as Mastodon. Mastodon users can then like your post, and you’ll see those likes on your original post on Threads. The idea is to allow interoperability between apps, whereas currently, everything just exists in its own universe.

Edited March 23 by atomheartbevo

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You will need to go into the iOS or Android app and account settings and then Fediverse sharing.  Can’t do it on the web client yet.

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On 8/21/2023 at 11:42 AM, NoName said:

it doesn't matter if 99% of its users delete their account and never use the app again, it still means this didn't happen:

it isn't going to close down or not "make it 3 months", moron.

no one is happier to post dumb shit on the internet than you.

and no one is happier to double and triple down than you.

you really are a unicorn. typically, people don't love going out of their way to ensure that everyone around them knows they are a dumbass at as many opportunities as possible...but not you!

 

 

I am enjoying the vibe on Threads. I see posts from people that I actually want to see posts from. I only have 11,000 followers so not a great deal but they are hanging in there. It will be interesting to see what happens with all these social media platforms. I think I'm on about 15 of them now, though I don't have time to tend to them all on a daily basis.

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https://www.threads.net/@taylorswift/post/C57c9weMTDm/?xmt=AQGzi1IEqoiNK_lw4-GJsso2YT2IDP2oWOWrG0yuY6aq0Q

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26 minutes ago, The Dog said:

https://www.threads.net/@taylorswift/post/C57c9weMTDm/?xmt=AQGzi1IEqoiNK_lw4-GJsso2YT2IDP2oWOWrG0yuY6aq0Q

 

Edited April 19 by atomheartbevo

[Lurch 5,916]

lol she already has 9M followers on Threads

Insane

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Recent updates from Mosseri

It’s important that people understand how their Threads posts perform, so we’re rolling out the ability to tap anywhere on a post to display its total view count. We’ve got more work to do, but I think this is a great first step in giving creators the some of the data they’ve been asking for.

The ability to limit who can quote your Threads posts is now available to everyone. You can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people you follow, or disable quote posts entirely. I hope this will help keep Threads a more positive place and give people more control over their experience. If you’ve been using this feature, would love to hear your thoughts.

Quote control info: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C6O_DrvPIMv

Smaller creators historically haven’t gotten their fair share of reach on Instagram, and we want to change that. So we’re making some changes to how we rank recommendations to give smaller creators a better chance of breaking through. We are rolling this out slowly but hope smaller creators start to see the benefits over the coming months. I should clarify this does not apply yet to Threads, but we’re exploring bringing some of these ideas to Threads ranking as well.

I posted about some major changes to ranking that will affect both craters and aggregators this morning: we’ve started to replace a post that we’re recommending with the original one, if we can find it, and we are going to stop recommending posts from aggregators over the next few months. We doing plan to demote posts from any aggregators you follow. I should clarify we’re talking about exact content replication. So if you take someone’s photo or video and riff on it, maybe putting green screen video of yourself on top with your own commentary or making it into a meme with text, we consider that (mixed) original content.

Today on Threads, we’re expanding Hidden Words, which until now only were applied to replies, so you can filter out unwanted content from feeds, search, profiles, and post replies on Threads. We’re also testing ways to select who can quote you and the ability to mute notifications on your posts. I hope these features give you more control over your experience on Threads and help keep it a place for positive conversation. Let me know what you think, especially if you’re in the tests.

How hidden words work https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C6O_LvgPtg1

We’re starting to test the *option* to archive posts with a small number of people. You can do this manually, for individual posts, or choose to automatically archive all posts after a certain period of time. If you want to make your post public again, you can always unarchive it whenever you’d like. I ran a poll white back and the resounding feedback was not to make this the default, so we’re gonna try it as an option.

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And in the meantime, they are about to start charging a lot more for paid verification on Instagram. Meaning that only big brands that can afford it will actually see promotion. The current plan is $15/month and will now have added tiers of $45/$120/$350 per month.

Instagram has been complete shit lately, likely to increase people's willingness to pay these increasing amounts. I have no doubt they will do the same thing with Threads.

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On 5/11/2024 at 8:12 AM, HoustonHorn said:

. I have no doubt they will do the same thing with Threads.

Threads is a loss leader for them.  It's a drop in the bucket compared to Instagram and Facebook, and as more people continue to join and they roll out new features, they see it as a long-term play against twitter and a few other services.

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Threads is a loss leader for them.  It's a drop in the bucket compared to Instagram and Facebook, and as more people continue to join and they roll out new features, they see it as a long-term play against twitter and a few other services.

Fire now, I agree. But the opportunity to monetize will be there eventually as Elon continues to deconstruct Twitter. It may take a few years, but it will definitely happen. The allure will be too strong.

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2 minutes ago, HoustonHorn said:

33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Threads is a loss leader for them.  It's a drop in the bucket compared to Instagram and Facebook, and as more people continue to join and they roll out new features, they see it as a long-term play against twitter and a few other services.

Fire now, I agree. But the opportunity to monetize will be there eventually as Elon continues to deconstruct Twitter. It may take a few years, but it will definitely happen. The allure will be too strong.

If Threads can keep a lot of the batshittery, bots, and racism out, they will be able to easily monetize it in the long term.  They continue to hang back in terms of what they allow, while adding features and what they allow slowly, and seeing what works.  

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From Mosseri: FYI we recently rolled out the ability for our third-party fact-checking partners to review and rate false content on Threads. Previously, we matched near-identical false content on Threads based on what was fact-checked on Facebook and Instagram. Now fact-checkers can rate Threads content on its own.

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On 3/23/2024 at 6:33 AM, Hornius Emeritus said:

I think I'm on about 15 of them now

Good lord, that sounds horrible. 

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18 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

They continue to hang back in terms of what they allow, while adding features and what they allow slowly, and seeing what works.  

aka, early stages of the enshittening process. 

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We’re starting to roll out the new threads.net on desktop globally, so you can customize and personalize what you see. We have a lot of great ideas to make this the best website to share ideas, so stay tuned for more and let us know if you have any suggestions.

Screenshot at the lin, starting to look like a real desktop client

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7mhi9BPBqW

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i feel like I should have a better understanding of this but I do not: the fact that nobody embeds threads anywhere - is this because that capability is not really available from Meta, or because it hasn't been widely adopted? 

I was never a big twitter user. Twitter kinda sucked as a "open it up and scroll" experience until you had followed enough accounts that you had lots of different things in your feed and presumably a well fed algorithm peppering in other shit that is likely to capture your attention.  The thing that made twitter sticky and a place to go back to before reaching that point was that you constantly ran into it out in the broader internet - people sharing news links, sports stuff. Because it became the default way to share a postcard for the story that's on the other end of the link, or to share a small video clip or picture from someone near the source of an event unfolding right now. And threads, however long we are out now from it's launch, this is still not a thing that I've seen from it. The only thing that ever pulls me into Threads at this point is Meta themselves inserting Threads into instagram or facebook.

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42 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

i feel like I should have a better understanding of this but I do not: the fact that nobody embeds threads anywhere - is this because that capability is not really available from Meta, or because it hasn't been widely adopted? 

@immamac can explain it more, but it’s on their end from what I understand - the ability/API to embed is not as high on their priority list as other things.  It should have been higher on their list, but they decided they had the time to build out other stuff first (or rather wanted other stuff finished or polished before Threads start popping up on sites all over the place). And when embedding hits, they will probably see a huge influx of traffic/new users.

With that said, the fact they’ve got a real desktop client (or at least interface) going is a good sign that they are working through their list, because they were heavily focused on mobile early on.  And I’m seeing a lot more people in recent weeks either joining or at least becoming active.

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It’s worth noting that in 2024 **FACEBOOK** still doesn’t enable embedding either. It’s possible they’ve decided to prevent this for threads even when the APIs for developers rolls out to the masses

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16 hours ago, Lurch said:

It’s worth noting that in 2024 **FACEBOOK** still doesn’t enable embedding either. It’s possible they’ve decided to prevent this for threads even when the APIs for developers rolls out to the masses

I wonder if the Ferderated/fediverse stuff mentioned above is the key to their plans for embedding and that it will work differently than other platforms.  The strange thing is it looks like it would be a light lift since you can embed Instagram posts in bulletin board software.

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“Threads Update 🔔🧵

In an effort to give people more control over their Threads experience, we’re rolling out the option to swipe right on a post to like it, or swipe left to show you’re not interested. We’ll use those signals to show you more posts like the ones you swipe right on and fewer of those you swipe left on. I hope this helps you find more posts that you’re interested in. “

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been pretty successful just with liking, reshares and blocks tho

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Updates from Mosseri from the last month: 175 million active users after its first year.

June 13: Live scores has been a hit with NBA fans — and starting today, we’re excited to bring the feature to baseball fans with the launch of live scores for MLB games.We’ll continue expanding live scores to cover more sports and leagues, but I’d love to hear feedback from the growing Baseball Threads community. Let me know what you think in the replies.

June 18: Excited to announce the Threads API is launching today – you can now use your favorite third-party applications to publish posts, reply to others, see insights and more. Hope this helps businesses and creators manage their Threads presence at scale. As always, open to hearing your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve

June 25: Threads Update, Fediverse Edition 🔔🧵We’re introducing the ability for users who turn on fediverse sharing to see and like replies from people on other servers, directly in Threads. We’re also expanding the availability of the fediverse beta experience to more than 100 countries and hope to roll it out everywhere soon.

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I’m not a brain genius, but again - drive traffic and capitalize on the downfall of Twitter by becoming the new source of short embedded content. I’ve never seen threads embedded anywhere. I’ve only visited threads in the past x months when I’ve seen threads in the middle of my Instagram feed. Get that content out of the app.

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6 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I’m not a brain genius, but again - drive traffic and capitalize on the downfall of Twitter by becoming the new source of short embedded content. I’ve never seen threads embedded anywhere. I’ve only visited threads in the past x months when I’ve seen threads in the middle of my Instagram feed. Get that content out of the app.

The Threads API that just launched last month is the vehicle for that to happen. It’s starting to happen with WordPress and a few other platforms.

 

Just slower than we’d like.

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This sums it up pretty nicely, although I would toss in the sports crowd not being represented.

https://www.threads.net/@thespeechprof/post/C96AuatyuBj

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Nearly all the people I see complaining about Threads being worse than Twitter are either journalists with giant followings on Twitter or tech bros.Literally almost everyone else I talk has had a better user experience on Threads by a wide margin (it’s honestly become my favorite app).It doesn’t need to become Twitter to be successful, it is becoming successful by being Threads.

I am engaging with people individually a lot more than I did on Twitter, and it seems like I’m engaging more with people who are extremely relevant in the topics I’m posting in, people who are doing lectures or writing books about the topics I’m interested in. It’s really weird. I never engaged with these people on Twitter, and when you start a thread, it’s not flooded with bots or people advertising their Instagram or OnlyFans or whatever.

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I signed up for threads. At the time it wanted me to also sign up for insta and to give my cell number (wouldn't take a google voice or other temp numbers) and after a week or so they effectively closed my account. Fuck 'em. 

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

I signed up for threads. At the time it wanted me to also sign up for insta and to give my cell number (wouldn't take a google voice or other temp numbers) and after a week or so they effectively closed my account. Fuck 'em. 

Hopefully they will ditch the Instagram requirement (you can always make a fake one in the meantime), but they built Threads on top of Instagram to get it started faster in terms of the authentication and infrastructure.  The cell phone thing is partially an attempt to cut down on bots (which still get through unfortunately).

I’m hoping the new API stuff is not only going to lead to easier embedding on various platforms, but eventual splitting from Instagram, but that’s way, way off, because that would mean a new infrastructure, authentication, and DM systems (Threads doesn’t have its own DM feature).  Facebook is dropping the ball big time on DMs and some other stuff.  They want it using Instagrams DMs, but ughh.

You can get an account on BlueSky or Mastodon and follow people on Threads.

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https://www.threads.net/@benricem/post/DABcBVAsDCA
 

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Hey @mosseri, myself and @aaron.vegh are working on a new app, Croissant, for cross-posting to Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

We’re otherwise ready to launch, but are we’re stuck waiting for Meta’s app review. Is there anyone from Dev Relations you could connect us with?

 

 

Edited September 18 by atomheartbevo

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Recent updates:

A couple of new things for Threads today: we’ve heard you’d like more time to edit your posts, so starting today, you’ll have 15 minutes to make changes. (I know this will come in handy for me…) For those of you who have turned on sharing to the fediverse, this means your Threads posts will now be shared to the fediverse 15 minutes later, once the edit window is closed

We’re also continuing our work integrating Threads with the fediverse. Starting today, people who have turned on sharing to the fediverse can see who follows them and likes their content from other fediverse servers. Tap the post activity or follower list for the full list