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I think there will be more activity once they add more features. It’s very bare-bones right now. I honestly like the app, though, all things considered. I hate Facebook/Meta, but it’s been a nice app to just scroll through, and there’s been enough content to use it as a time killer. They desperately need a proper search feature and a trending page, though, especially if they ever hope to fully replace Twitter. Overall, I like it more than both Mastodon and Bluesky, because discoverability is so awful on Mastodon and Bluesky doesn’t have enough users and content because they haven’t gone public yet. And I very much like the idea and structure of Mastodon much more (with it being open source and federated), but the user experience has been so bad for me, with discoverability being the worst aspect of it.
I think the main method of discovery is through your network, and through your local instance. Federated timeline tends to be chaotic, but I definitely like reading my local timeline on my regional masto instance. But I believe that was the intention on the design, no ‘trending’, no algorithm, just the people you follow.
and hashtags! you cant forget the tags!
Yep, that too.
Yeah, I unironically like trending sections and algorithms, at least to some degree lol I understand the downsides of them, but I enjoy things being shown to me that I’ll usually enjoy seeing. The YouTube algorithm for example, despite how finicky it can be to work with as a creator, is very good as a user, in my opinion.
That’s good news. First it was 50% and now 80%. How bout meta loses 100% of its users.
I’d still rather see Threads succeed and Twitter die now that a fash-friendly owner lets fashy types run wild.
Yep, if Threads can accelerate the death of - ugh - X, it will have served its purpose.
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Meta plays at least as large a part in radicalizing the boomers towards fascism via Facebook
Good I love to see Facebook projects fail
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Good. I’ve managed to block tiktok and all meta services from my network.
Turns out, the brands and the ads weren’t the reason people were sticking to Twitter.
You mean people aren’t hopping on the join the conversation with Crisco and General Mills? Who woulda thunk! I thought for sure that would be the killer application right there.
Sounds like Threads has lost the thread…
I’ll see myself out.
Ive been hearing the same headline for two weeks now
Not sure why anyone wanted a second twitter that’s still made by a big-tech
Well, shareholders, employees and advertisers, wanted it to make money on the users. Even if only 5% users remain, that’s still better than the current interest rates after investment fund’s fees.
Facebook/Instagram users wanted to check it out, because why not, creating an account was just a couple clicks.
Everyone else… they didn’t, and from the looks of it, they still don’t.
I’d be keen to give it a go if it were legitimately anyone else besides Facebook. Would have even tried it if Microsoft made a random Twitter clone
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I don’t understand why someone would choose threads over mastadon, where they could have all the dunking with none of the enshittening.
Nobody chose threads. It just got shoved down their throats.
Also, Mastadon doesn’t have the same marketing these companies do.
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It’s a mix between heard mentally (well, all my friends are on it) and FOMO (what are they saying about me over there?)
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It’s still too complicated for the layperson to have to navigate. Anything beyond “I have one login at one site that everyone else has” is too much for most.
My grandma put electrical tape over the blinking 12:00 on the vcr she still uses. She’s not ready for 2 factor authentication.
I mean, it is annoying to have to reset the clock every time the power fails. No clock, no problem!
Mastodon is the least like that of them though
Zuck wanted it, and literally nobody else. They’re going to need to implement ActivityPub just so every blue checkmark on earth can launch their own social network where they are the only users.
Good, hopefully it keeps tanking so we don’t have to pay any further mind to it.
This looks like a hype cycle pattern, and they are entering the trough of disillusionment phase.
Could be the trough of dissolutionment or the trough of oblivion from which there is no return. Probably too early to tell.
Because it’s so boring. It doesn’t have a “trending” tab and every post is an ad.
This is what happens when you launch with no content discovery features, so you have to whore yourself out and follow anyone and everyone if you want to get any attention. “Content creators” and clout chasers are the primary customer of this service, so without that I don’t know why they’d want to use it.
Threads had no discovery features?! Jesus Christ…
No hashtags, no full text search. Just an algorithmic feed and a following feed, and you can only search users.
That’s…really bad 😭 Even Mastodon allows you to search by hashtags (I know it supports full-text search but most instances turn that off because it’s pricey)
Actually I only pay $20/month for a hosted opensearch server for my Mastodon instance. I think a lot of people on Mastodon are against full text search for ideological reasons.
“Minimum Viable Product” has been a curse on the industry for so long. This is the clearest example of its failure
I mean if you pay attention most social media inundated with influencers and companies is basically:
“Buy this, no buy this, buy this instead, spend your money here!” It even leeches into everyday conversations outside of social media.
Pay attention to how often people talk about buying things and newly released products. Hell, I’ve caught myself contributing to it. It’s kind of gross when you realize how steeped in consumerism nearly everything has become.
Who are they even selling to? Everybody’s broke.
It’s why this place is a boiling trash heap.
Since it already worked with instagram, this was people signing in with their instagram account, checking the app once or twice, and then going back to instagram. The starting numbers where incredibly manipulated because of this single account system between threads and instagram.
I saw a lot of people excited to try it. Losing 80% of its peak users at this point doesn’t seem like a failure to me. Anybody who was curious was counted as a user. I’m sure fediverse sites have had similar, smaller influxes of new users that create an account to check it out and then don’t come back. It takes some determination to move to another social networking ecosystem.
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