Derek Powazek 🐐Jul 6, 2023

Threads gaining 30 million users in 24 hours is a perfect example of the unfair, anticompetitive, monopolistic advantage Meta has by owning the social graph.

We should demand laws that make us the owners of our social graphs and mandate that social media companies enable social graph import and export.

Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Jul 6, 2023
Still, just because they could convince 30M people to try out Threads (a fraction of their userbase) doesn't mean success is inevitable. If it did, we'd be having this conversation on Google+.
Show threadnothingfutureJul 6, 2023
@fraying I might well be the only one, but: I kinda liked G+. They botched the rollout about as badly as one could, but the functionality of circles was (I think) a pretty good idea. It seemed at least like an attempt to accommodate code switching.
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Jul 6, 2023
@nothingfuture It definitely appealed to a certain kind of brain that liked putting their friends in categories.
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Jul 6, 2023
@nothingfuture Anyway, my point wasn't that G+ was bad, it was that even a player of Google's scale couldn't make it work.
Show threadkccqzy
@fraying @nothingfuture It's not a matter of scale, it's a matter of execution. Google is bad at it; Meta is better.
Jul 7, 2023 at 1:00amWeb