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Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.
by TheAdamist 3y ago
Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mihaic 3y agoWhy downvote this? It's a fair point.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoBecause it's not ironic. It's obvious. Twitter is just a medium to post stuff. Threads is as well. I can post this on mastodon even. Also: Europe still can't join in on the fun.
- user_named 3y agoI'm in Europe and just downloaded the apk. All my Chinese friends have joined too.
- Dah00n 3y agoEU != Europe. Biggest country in Europe is Russia. Biggest population is Russians.
- ffhhttt 3y agoJust like America is not just the US. But nobody cares…
- RamblingCTO 3y agoYeah, that's up for debate. It's not as clear as you make it out to be. As a (EU) European, Russia is not. The western most part of it maybe, yeah. Same for Turkey.
- Dah00n 3y agoNo, it really isn't at all. European Russia is 40% of the total European landmass. 15% of its total population. That's 110 million Russians in only the part that is inside Europe! Germany is at a low 80 million. Total population of EU is 445 million. Besides, numbers doesn't change because you are from the EU and disagree. I'm also in the EU.
- ambivalence 3y agoA fair point about what? Threads is out for less than a day, I have 8 followers there so far. I originally posted this information on Mastodon, actually: https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754 https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754 However, I have a much larger following on Twitter, so it was the tweet that got picked up by someone here on HN. We'll see how this looks like in twelve months.
- sanderjd 3y agoA fair point that it's stupid to implement a mostly plain text publishing site that doesn't support linking to any of the text published there. Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
- sillysaurusx 3y agoYou can’t link to threads? By design? I was seriously considering trying it out, but if there’s no search engine visibility, there’s no point. Most of the searches for my real name pull up tweets. Hopefully it’s just a missing feature that will be added later. Even TikToks are linkable, and those have very little google visibility.
- sanderjd 3y agoIt seems like you can generate links, but they don't do anything for people who don't have the app (except direct you to install the app). I haven't fiddled with it to see if they've implemented something to make the content visible to search engines. (Which presumably would mean I could see it too with some effort.) But I haven't seen such a thing yet. Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
- Asooka 3y agoThreads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.
- lloeki 3y agoIt also launched "in more than 100 countries" but none of the the E.U. ones. So until it either solves its privacy issues of becomes part of the fediverse, audience is crippled.
- eatonphil 3y agoNot exactly true. They have a read-only browser view. In fact a Thread thread has already been on the front of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632
- superq 3y ago> Not exactly true. Still, mostly true.. read-only is just dumb. Nice to be back in 2008, when mobile-first turned into mobile-only. The entire point of this thread was that this is a Python/Django web app, but it's not actually a web app at all, so what's the point of pointing out any of this?
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- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoI see these https://www.threads.net/t/xxx https://www.threads.net/t/xxx links to specific threads, but is there any top level page where you can search for stuff or browse ? https://www.threads.net https://www.threads.net just has a QR code (to install the app presumably).
- eatonphil 3y ago
- ambivalence 3y agoIf you want real irony here, it's this: powering an app called Threads with Python that's got a global interpreter lock which makes threading hard. Get it? Threads, threading...? OK, I'll see myself out.
- mrits 3y agoIronic people on MySpace talked about Facebook
- melling 3y agoIs the person from Meta? Doesn’t appear so. It’s still perfectly acceptable for Twitter users to discus other platforms on Twitter.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoIs there a web-based version of threads at the moment, or just the app ?
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- smrtinsert 3y agoOr, "Threads" and the GIL maybe? Love Python though.
- no_wizard 3y agoTheir web app is not there. I think you can directly link to a Thread but it only shows what you linked to, not even the discussion tree or anything like that. Its not open to the web yet. Supposedly, it will be