Because no lifers have taken it over already. Trolls, influencers and everything in between was always going to be the first to adopt it because they have the time to do it. Just cut all that crap out of your life, you don’t need it
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Eh, substack notes doesn’t feel like nearly as much of a bummer because it’s all mostly a bunch of blog authors chatting with and boosting each other. Not nearly the wasteland of brands and vapid influencers threads seems to be becoming.
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I guess the various silly names different companies try to come up with for “post” or “boost” are not that big of an issue for me.
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At least it’s not Medium.
Facebook, whilst it is full of people I know doing nothing interesting, has a place. There are many good and useful communities on there.
Instagram is handy but ultimately full of influencers who have created a lifestyle of looking cool and being paid by thirsty brands, fuck you gymshark!
Twitter is, well full of people talking crap.
Threads would appear to take the worst of all of them and mash it together. I’m tempted to install it but not yet. How long do we give it until it dies off?
Note that the data it collects is the maximum possible - every data -oriented privilege possible. And note that you can’t remove it without deleting your Instagram account.
To me, installing Threads to see what it’s like is like having unprotected sex with a crack-addict in an alley to see what it’s like: I’m not curious enough to take the risks and I’m guessing the experience isn’t that great anyways.
Much like having unprotected sex with a crack addict, it will probably leave you full of regret and probably a burning sensation in your gentlemen parts for some time.
I think I’ll give it a miss for a while.
I mean it’s social media, it is what you turn it into. I haven’t been here long enough to get the vibe of this place to tech compared to Reddit, which fucking hates all things tech, but I feel comfortable enough here saying Threads is fine.
Social media can have its purposes beyond chasing hate and baiting rage, my dudes.
Sports, science, news, local info and topical conversations…we don’t need to ham-fistedly slam things we don’t know anything about.
Believe it or not, you can find good and bad pretty much everywhere you look.
just what a thread lover would say.
Check out Mastodon. That’s where the real cool kids are.
This was well written and encapsulated a lot of things I’ve found off about Threads. It desperately needs a timeline that only shows the people you follow
Seems pretty hyperbolic. I joined through my insta out of curiosity and I saw like half my friends posting stuff already, saying hi or an update about their life. And all the meme accounts I follow were already posting shit ofc. I’m sure a significant fraction of Lemmy’s interactions are based around meme posts, so we’re doing the same thing they are. That’s just how humans like existing on the internet.
For the record I’m anti Facebook, but you can’t get around the fact that almost all your friends and everyone you see walking around likely has an Instagram account. It’s just a given and I feel like people here hate acknowledging that.
I believe that threads is currently limiting advertising while they draw users in (before the expected bait and switch after they’ve captured the audience).
See “enshittification”
https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979
While it is hyperbolic if you only consider posts that are not immediate, that’s not the main part od the article.
the point of following ppl on Twitter, for the author, is sharing and reading thoughts about very precise moments, like a comeback in a debate, or a team scoring in a game
Me before reading this article: “I’m never going to install or use Threads, and I’m not remotely interested in it.”
Me after reading this article: “Ok, now it has my attention, but only in the same way that seeing a multi-vehicle pileup in an ice storm does: You can’t help but wonder how many more cars are going to plow into it.”
Only needed one sentence there to know all I need to. “Currently there is no way to only see people you follow.” Lol so more bullshit like Facebook and Instagram where you get friend, Ad, sponsored post, you might like this, group post, friend, Ad, Ad…
Just another way for Facebook to feed you non stop adverting in between tiny bites of content. We talk about how terrible Reddit is…I don’t understand how my wife uses Facebook at all.
I feel bad for people who will get sucked into this nonsense and enjoy the fediverse through an app that is basically malware come to life.
I think if somebody wants that kind of content they are well served already by Reddit, Facebook etc.
Please don’t go to Lemmy and try to turn it into that.
I think it’s like that now cause they rushed release, given Twitter’s recent issues.
As of now, there are no ads. The main feed is essentially a jumbled mess of your followers and random popular posts. They say they don’t plan to monetize until it’s more fleshed out, so we’ll see how long that takes.
It’ll happen when they capture the biggest portion of Twitter’s users. As soon as that happen enshittification shall descend upon it.
As far as I’m aware. No big youtuber has mentioned the fediverse in their posts or videos about threads. It’s either they don’t know or don’t care. Unfortunately we might need to battle threads alone
Gen z and lower don’t use the internet like millennials and above. My cousins and sister are all under 20 and use group chats, dischord, Snapchat and tiktok because they want connections with their groups of friends not strangers online.
My daughter is 15 and you’re exactly right. Demographic wise…who do guy think the target audience for threads is and how is meta going to stay in business if Gen Z uses NONE of their apps?
I’m so happy I don’t have any desire to see it.
The joy of missing out!
Honestly, the article made me morbidly curious, like passing by a particularly awful car crash.
Such angst and yet no mention of Mastodon as a FOSS alternative.
Mastodon (and other FOSS ActivityPub platforms) aren’t just great because they are open source, they are great because they are distributed.
The Internet was designed to be resilient, famously designed to withstand (a nuclear) attack. The World Wide Web started to make it monolithic and Web 2.0 resulted in a more centrally controlled infrastructure.
When an attack comes from above (like Musk, /u/spez, Meta and Google) one (group of) individual(s) can take our whole swathes of content in one policy change.
Wait, what’s wrong with the Try Guys? Or did I misinterpret that?
Threads is the Good Morning America of social media.
Haha, wow. This is a perfect metaphor. Well done.
I mean I’m too old to “get it” too, but this blog post just reads like an old man yelling at kids to get off their lawn lol
I will not now, nor will I ever, call Mark Zuckerberg’s company “Meta”
ok
It’ll always be Burma to me
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Hey hey hey… That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
It feels so manufactured and fake.
Like LinkedIn
