There are 1 billion active users on Instagram and those users were invited to Threads using an existing account. Celebrities, businesses, streamers, etc. all popped up on Threads within the first few hours of public release.
I'm a big nerd and just learned about the fediverse within recent months. Everyone else I know who uses Twitter and Threads have no clue what Mastodon is.
The thing I noticed right out of the gate when I went slumming on Threads is that the Android app package is 77MB. Compare that to Mastodon at 2.5MB.
Two apps that (from the user's perspective) do pretty much the same thing - make queries to servers and display pieces of text on the screen, maybe with some pictures or videos. Not that hard.
So what does that extra 74MB of bloat in the Threads app do? Meta's not telling us...
The problem with Mastodon is discoverability. The fact that if I follow 10 hashtags, it won't sort them on my homepage, but will be fully chronological.
Say I follow #photography. The top of my homepage would be the post posted 2s ago, no matter how bad it is. It is so hard to find quality content.
Now, Threads' algorithm is pretty bad, but it's still a lot easier to find quality content there instead of on Mastodon. Mastodon badly needs sorting by Hot, Active etc like there is on Lemmy.
Federation is so confusing! Why can't I just sign up at facebook.com where the rest of the internet is? You guys and your cryptofederatedarkweb.
Back to business as usual. The reality is that the majority of people can’t be bothered with privacy and other scandals from GAFAM.
The silver lining of the whole Reddit and Twitter fiasco is that more people are interested in and participating in a decentralized network. That’s a good thing for the community.
Anyone else notice the cursor on the top left?
Nah, Twitter users stay where they are. That's Instagram users seeing what Twitter is like.
I can barely find anything in Arabic on the fediverse, but on threads I can find all the relevant and local posts I want in Arabic
Threads is the narcissism of Instgrammers and the psychopathy of Twitterers
If they want people to use Mastodon, then make it user-friendly and easy for the general public. I downloaded it, tried it, and was lost/confused on the whole server/instance thing and finding communities etc. Whereas Threads is pretty straight forward, it's just a Twitter clone. User experience is more important than privacy to the general public and developers need to realise you can't compromise user experience/ease of use/accessibility.
I much rather use mastodon. It's so much better, despite the volume, but low volume is nice at times. Feels manageable. Being able to stick to local instances but also link to others is great. All around better model compared to centralized stuff.
Also it frees up my time to do other things.
They ended up going back to Twitter lol
An alternative to Twitter with an Instagram flavor.
Lol, I got hyped about Threads until I saw who runs it... meta... yeah no thanks!
It's like that with facebook's services too.
let them take baby steps
you think they know?
you think that Instagram users have any idea about what they are getting into?
most of them probably don't even know that Instangram is owned by Meta / Facebook, despite the small logo.The biggest L is watching porn artists try to move to Threads when the platform doesn't even allow their content.
And the fact that threads will be compatible with the fediverse make the mastodon’s user: 😁 😁
It blows my mind how anyone is being able to create something worse than twitter, truly fascinting.
i dont undearsnt the joke where is meme
In it for the long haul, its going to bathtub but we'll get there eventually
Why is there a mouse in top left?
The same thing that is happening between reddit and lemmy is happening between twitter and nostr.
Human beings (a minority at least) will always seek freedom first and foremost.
I invite you to discover the wonderful community of nostr!
Is it just me or does threads symbol look like no step on snek?
Twitter … never heard that in a while.
I suppose the onboarding has a lot to do with it. Creating a mastodon-compatible account is a hassle. You have to ke choices. The experience isn't seamless.
Haha perfect. Not to take away from this, but threads makes the onboarding experience just so much easier and with the existing social graph from instagram they have basically everyone on earth linked already
