• bug@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It’s a bit weird to see Threads being referred to as Facebook’s version of Twitter - wasn’t Instagram already Facebook’s version of Twitter, just with the gimmick being images of text rather than just the text? This seems like it’s basically the same social network with a different interface - all the users are the same and the list of banned content is the same, people are coming in thinking it’s the same thing so it will end up being the same.

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      1 year ago

      Instagram was designed to share photos at first, with the filters added because old phone cameras sucked. Text pictures got added later as Meta adjusted Instagram to compete with Twitter and Tumblr.

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        1 year ago

        Good point, I guess I should be specifically referring to Facebook’s Instagram, rather than the filter and photo-sharing app it was beforehand