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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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[–] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coming at this from a slightly different angle, as I do use Instagram and it was responsible for helping my YT channel and therefore my business in general take off.

I'm already on Mastodon, so would have no need to use this. However, I've really come to despise IG and find interacting with it to be more of a chore than anything. So an option for my friends and viewers from IG to communicate with me without me having to actually log in over there? I can just stay on Mastodon and run everything from one place? Sounds fine to me!

(pending evidence of good faith as discussed elsewhere in thread)

[–] nfld0001@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(pending evidence of good faith as discussed elsewhere in thread)

I think that's going to be one of the big ifs about the new platform. The optimist in me really wants to give Meta the benefit of the doubt here. If they do this "right," I think it has the potential to do great things for building up content and exposure and letting people do things their way. But admittedly I have some wariness of Meta, and I'm aware that it's likely in their MO to mess things up in the name of profit or similar.

I suppose the approach I'll end up taking will err towards a Wait and See perspective 🤷‍♂️

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

Yup. Completely with you on everything you just said.