If they get the little details right, I see this as the only real competition to Twitter right now. After trying Mastodon for a few months, it's certainly not it.
They gave invite codes to some "influencers", and it got a lot of hype and media attention, but after the hype died down somewhat, it's become basically a nothing burger. I've stopped giving out the invite codes that I'm accumulating, because my feed is pretty boring and dead. Bluesky is far more "promise" than reality.
Meta has 1000x the engineering resources of Bluesky.
I’ll DM you!
EDIT: realised you can’t DM on HN
How can I send a code to you? If you want one that is, you might not be bothered :-)
EDIT EDIT: I’m using the Hack App on my Phone, I think maybe I can DM followers from the desktop site?
I haven't got one either yet so don't know its state.
Ceci est un post de protestation.
But I agree if there is heavy integration with the rest of Meta's products I'll be less happy.
But I'm guessing they wont do that, as Meta wants lock in and registration, and following all your data.
At least current version of instagram on the web is pretty lame, if you don't install some browser extensions.
Personally there is very little crossover between what I follow on instagram and twitter. So the quality of the discussions vary greatly.
On Twitter I follow developers and product people. The quality is better on Twitter, but it's definitely declined because of engagement seeking over the last few years.
Whether that's for unknown logins, spam accusations (just an accusation is enough for a tech company to throw the ban hammer), etc.
Why?
People normally have the reverse complaint, that the algorithm makes them miss content.
I don't personally notice a lack of engagement. Maybe not everyone migrated, but I feel like the most important people have.
what ratio of tweets are rich media vs. text?
