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Why downvote this? It's a fair point.

by mihaic 3y ago

RamblingCTO 3y ago
Because 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 ago
  I'm in Europe and just downloaded the apk. All my Chinese friends have joined too.
- Dah00n 3y ago
  EU != Europe. Biggest country in Europe is Russia. Biggest population is Russians.
  - ffhhttt 3y ago
    Just like America is not just the US. But nobody cares…
  - RamblingCTO 3y ago
    Yeah, 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 ago
      No, 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 ago
A 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 ago
  A 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 ago
    You 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 ago
      It 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!

Why downvote this? It's a fair point.

by mihaic 3y ago

Why downvote this? It's a fair point.

Because 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 ago
I'm in Europe and just downloaded the apk. All my Chinese friends have joined too.
Dah00n 3y ago
EU != Europe. Biggest country in Europe is Russia. Biggest population is Russians.
- ffhhttt 3y ago
  Just like America is not just the US. But nobody cares…
- RamblingCTO 3y ago
  Yeah, 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 ago
    No, 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 ago

A 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 ago
A 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 ago
  You 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 ago
    It 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!