Maybe start here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues
effingjoe
joined 1 year ago
I haven't looked into it much, but as I understand it, you can "deactivate" a threads account, but as you say, you cannot delete it without also deleting Instagram.
This would also make stuff integrate better with Mastodon, which leans heavily on hashtags.
As for technical hurdles, it could work exactly like kbin already handles tagging people in threads (when enabled). It could automatically populate the tags from the magazine when a post is created, allowing the user to delete them (and maybe reminding them to add more) before posting.
No problem! It took a little bit of trial and error to get it up and running smoothly, but at the same time the dev seems to be overhauling the UI to make that less necessary.
At least Twitter had a way to only view the people you followed, if you could find it. I only spent a short time looking for it, but I couldn't find any option to do this in threads. That makes it worse than Twitter, as far as I'm concerned. (And man is that a race to the bottom haha)
Edit: and no edit on threads, either. Yes, this edit was performative.
You expect them not to track purchases through their own app?
You mean through the app?
Obsidian is a solid choice; it's what I use, except I use the plugin called Livesync that offers a self-hosted syncing solution that is more tightly integrated with obsidian. I could have totally just used SyncThings, since I already have that for syncing other stuff. I just like to tinker with this kind of stuff.
Edited: added context
I never was much of a Twitter user (and if we're being honest, that carried over to Mastodon) but after about 30 seconds on Threads I hated being bombarded with posts from people I didn't know or care to know desperately trying to attract followers on the new platform. Threads is (unsurprisingly) making itself into a clone of late-stage Twitter, instead of Twitter back in the day. Hard pass
What do you mean when you say "privacy"? Threads isn't more or less private than using any other federated service-- they all share everything you do on them with everything else anyway. I guess federation doesn't share things like your email and IP address, so there is some privacy-related concerns, so maybe that's what you meant?
The big distinction between threads and, say, Mastodon is that Mastodon doesn't have an algorithm. The minor distinctions are more along the lines of it being open source and not controlled by a giant corporation. I am not surprised that most people don't care about (or maybe actively seek out) a service with an algorithm, let alone about the benefits of FOSS.
Edit: Nevermind, you answered this below.
Is strikeout a thing? Let's see. Edit2: Nope.
~~I'm curious as to what your actual concern is here. Like, what do you imagine will happen?~~