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Meta will be releasing a Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cih@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Here's everything we know about it so far:

It will use ActivityPub.
It will be a side app of Instagram.
It will most likely be called Threads.
Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won't transfer over automatically).

What do you think?

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[–] nfld0001@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I still have an Instagram because my friends do. Without Instagram DMs and iMessage, I lose real life connections.

Yep, I'm in a similar boat with real life connections as well as content creators I like. I'd love to drop Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, but so much of the people and content I enjoy are only in those places. I'd love to be a shepherd, but that's easier said than done with friends and family, let alone a content creator you'd be invisible to through no fault of your own.

I'd still like to minimize my presence in such places, and I'm actively working toward that. But I think it's going to be a long time before I'm completely out of there, if ever.