Re: Meta Unspools Threads

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 at 15:12, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> čt 6. 7. 2023 v 23:48 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> napsal:
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>> čt 6. 7. 2023 v 13:08 odesílatel Robert W. Gehl <rwg@yorku.ca> napsal:
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>>>  From what I understand, they don't support federation yet. It's a
>>> single node right now.
>>>
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>> Seems so.  Reports are that ActivityPub supportis planned.
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>> Up to 46 million users now, expected to reach a few hundred million this
>> month, stats can be tracked here:
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>> https://www.quiverquant.com/threadstracker/
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> Threads just became the "fastest growing app of all time".  I've had some
> feedback about whether or not this is significant in a decentralized
> system, which is a valid question.  Without making a value
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judgment, I would suggest that going from c. 1M users to C. 100M is a
> game-changing event.
>

Probably not, I keep on going over to Instagram from it. Some of the most
boring unorganized feeds ever.

A.


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> "Instagram Threads hits 100 million users, becoming easily the fastest
> growing app ever"
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> HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665481
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>>> - Rob
>>>
>>> On 2023-07-06 04:53, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> > Some stats:
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>>> > Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the app had attracted 10 million
>>> > signups in just seven hours, sharing an emoji that suggested that his
>>> > mind had been blown by the reception
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/
>>> > <
>>> https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So, it's possibly the majority of the fediverse now.  Has anyone tried
>>> > federating with it?
>>> >
>>> > čt 6. 7. 2023 v 10:38 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho
>>> > <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> napsal:
>>> >
>>> >     Seems a significant development
>>> >
>>> >     https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-unspools-threads
>>> >     <https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-unspools-threads>
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his)
>>> Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York
>>> University
>>> Fulbright Scholar, University of Calgary
>>> www.robertwgehl.org | @rwg@aoir.social
>>>
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