Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th
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Meta’s next app will try to make Instagram the new Twitter

Will people here use/try Meta’s #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.

The amount of data collected is insane imo.

  • EliasChao@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Having the Instagram branding would bring more celebrities and such, which will undoubtedly attract more people to the fediverse.

    Once they’re in and are more familiar with the whole thing, moving them to Mastodon shouldn’t be that hard.

    • Funwayguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      You say that but I fully believe Meta will tamper with their instance to push external users to sign up in order to engage with anything, while limiting the ability for them to get back out, effectively aiming to become the de-facto ‘center’ of the fediverse.

      • EliasChao@lemmy.oneEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        The Head of Instagram commented on this:

        “We’re committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app. We weren’t able to finish it for launch given a number of complications that come along with a decentralized network, but it’s coming,” he said.

        “If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”

        Look, I don’t want to be Devil’s advocate for Meta, but I’m kinda hopeful as I truly believe they entering the fediverse can be a good thing in the long run.