Try to Create a Functional Social Media App in 2023 Challenge (Impossible)
A piece of advice : don’t use that shit!
Well since I don’t want to delete my Instagram account and apparently I can’t only delete Threads, my new account will just stay there forever
Or, you could continue your brave forward-looking journey and try one of the Fediverse Solutions for Insta (namely Pixelfed) and leave Marks torture cellar behind.
Problem there is that you need to move many people at the same time to work (extremely hard) so your friend would be there while in Lemmy you dont need friends just content
Nope!
Unless, of course, Meta is lying. Threads will be federated and Instagram will likely follow, meaning any instance dumb enough to not defederate them will be able to interact and follow users without an Instagram account.
I have Instagram but haven’t downloaded or activated threads. Can’t you just uninstall?
You can’t delete a thread account that is created without also deleting Instagram account. Someone reported seeing that they were following people that didn’t have threads accounts yet so Meta might be creating shadow accounts for Instagram accounts that haven’t taken the plunge yet.
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I mean, what did you expect when you downloaded threads?
I’m kinda at a loss for words.
This isn’t even trying to be different from Twitter from what I see here.
A thread was embedded in a news article earlier and I didn’t even know it was threads. Had the blue tick and all.
Welcome… to the algorithm.
Why use anything from Meta? Seems like a bad time if you ask me.
They could use some beans
It’s so bad over there. Might be the worst case of quantity over quality. It’s just stuffed full of brands trying to make themselves relevant and influencers posting engagement bait. I’m not even exaggerating, 100% of my feed is that.
There’s nothing of worth there other than sheer volume.
And why would anyone be the least bit surprised? Copy paste facebook and all of its very genuine issues. It’s not a social platform, it’s an advertising platform.
I’m not surprised in the slightest, but I’ve seen lots of posts saying how diverse it is over there, and how vibrant, and that it’s more like old Twitter.
And yeah, it’s brands posting stale memes and old Twitter personalities fighting for their lives, so I guess it is like old Twitter.
By design 🤗 it probably results in more of your attention being wasted or they wouldn’t have made it like that
I know two of them
The saying used to be Facebook is full of friends who should be strangers and twitter is full of strangers that should be friends but they not fucking suck now
I feel like that’s how Twitter is, at least that’s what I remember from years ago when I tried it, didn’t recognize anyone there and just walked away. I don’t mind seeing strangers sometimes when I’m bored with my normal feed and want to see something new, but it seemed to be the default behavior for me and I didn’t care to learn how to fix it.
That’s how Twitter was and is today too. It’s not supposed to only be people you follow.
Have you heard of our lord and savior, Mastodon?
Don’t get me started on just how much of a clone Mastodon is, it’s like they really wanted to be behind on features. Meanwhile there’s other worthy platforms like Akkoma and Misskey that add some really nice features.
