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My main issue with threads is that O can’t browse without signing up. Thus, it fails to form a value proposition.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > main issue with threads is that O can’t browse without signing up. Thus, it fails to form a value proposition This is conserved across billions of dollars of social media. I’m not on most social media. But a paywall clearly works.
  • kragen 2y ago
    the open internet demolished aol and compuserve. a paywall doesn't always work; it depends on circumstances
• monetus 2y ago
  It is federated to an extent now though, can't you use a mastodon client without a meta account? I believe you can, iiuc.
  • treyd 2y ago
    Threads has defeded many Fedi instances for not being advertiser friendly and many Fedi instances rightly defeded Threads to protect their users from their scraping.
    • immibis 2y ago
      This doesn't protect anyone from scraping (read: people publicly viewing publicly published content)
      • monetus 2y ago
        I wonder why people think mastodon instances aren't generally scraped. If it is public, it was probably scraped.
• fragmede 2y ago
  don't blame threads for that, that was decided for Twitter and threads and the rest of the Internet by the LinkedIn vs HiQ web scraping case which said that content available outside of a login wall is fair game.
  • logifail 2y ago
    > that was decided for Twitter and threads and the rest of the Internet by the LinkedIn vs HiQ web scraping case which said that content available outside of a login wall is fair game Q: Remind us who are the creators of all this valuable content that needs to be protected against scrapers? (Spoiler: not the platforms that are blocking anonymous access to it)
• TiredOfLife 2y ago
  I just now opened and browsed threads.net without logging in.