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[–] meldroc 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

The thing I noticed right out of the gate when I went slumming on Threads is that the Android app package is 77MB. Compare that to Mastodon at 2.5MB.

Two apps that (from the user's perspective) do pretty much the same thing - make queries to servers and display pieces of text on the screen, maybe with some pictures or videos. Not that hard.

So what does that extra 74MB of bloat in the Threads app do? Meta's not telling us...

[–] Klypto 1 points 2 years ago

This is the equivalent of suspecting one of two books to be containing Nazi propaganda because it has more pages in it.

I'm not saying you should not be suspicious of the content of Threads but using size as a metric for it seems nonsensical to a software dev.

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