I haven’t used threads and I never will, but it’s nice to see that it’s not a great user experience even for people who are used to meta.

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    I signed up and tied it. It’s utter chaos, forced algorithmic feed, you can’t even only view posts from people you follow, you’re force fed random crap from American celebs.

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      I have no desire to try Threads for myself (apparently you need an Instagram account to even start, which kills any modicum of interest I might have stone dead right there), but I have been noting down my favorite descriptions of the Threads experience from various bloggers and social media posts:

      • like a 90s-themed office party organized by a human resources department.
      • like when a local restaurant you enjoy opens a location in an airport.
      • like if an entire social network was those posts that tell you what successful entrepreneurs do before 6AM.
      • like watching a Powerpoint from the Brand Research team where they tell you that Pop Tarts is crushing it on social.
      • like Casual Friday on LinkedIn.
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        All of these are from a single article except the office party. Weird that you would use all the examples they did.

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        They seem to be largely confused by it.

        Personally, it’s feels like a shittier version of insta. At least insta you can curate what you see. Threads you can’t. Plus the non tech savvy signed up for it then started asking what it was and what the fediverse is pretty much immediately. If your customers don’t even understand what your product is it’s probably not going to last too long. lol.

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          If your customers don’t even understand what your product is it’s probably not going to last too long. lol.

          Some folks didn’t understand Twitter at first and yet it kept going. Remember, the earliest days of it involved people posting what they were having to eat and other silly seeming stuff 'cause they were trying to figure it out. Somehow it then transformed into this major platform that some journalists got addicted to thanks to a lot of the latest info popping up there, and now some of those same journalists & the like are scrambling about for anything similar.

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        This argument is the same as “Lemmy=tankies”.

        So i guess were all tankies because were on here.

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          No, the software is written by tankies. But now its used on thousands of instances, with all kinds of political views.

          I think its the best technology that has arrived in a long time. Now we can talk without corporations in the middle.

          You and me would not be able to talk like this without an american big tech corp being involved otherwise, which is just insane. Ok, there are forums still, but they dont have a lot of users. Lemmy could be a game changer.

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    Yep, I signed up, was ok for a day or so and now it’s just an unmanageable stream of bs.

    Wil be removing myself as soon as I can see that I can do that without deleting my IG account.

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    That looks terrible, but I will note (though they are confined to communities) I have a similar growing blocklist on Lemmy. It seems every day I find a new meme or “let’s all complain about Reddit” community to block.

    I’m here for OC and interesting discussion, but I keep stumbling over low effort posts throughout my feed.

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      There is a lot of low effort posts right now, yeah. I think people are not sure if users will stay and therefore kind of chitchat a lot right now instead of using it for real knowledge sharing.

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      honestly a lot better then reddit, I didn’t care about the api fiasco but after the blackout it felt like everything drooped in quality so quickly and that’s why I came here

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    Am I starting to think we have less to worry about from Threads?

    Simply because Threads is so lame it may very well experience a failure to launch.

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      I don’t think it will fail that hard, because in general people love to be on the same platform as celebrities and have a way to interact with famous people. I still worry how it will affect the Fediverse we have now.

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      I do want Threads to fail and I admit a find enjoyment in that, if they do. I think big tech is poison and has no respect for human beings whatsoever.

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      Considering how facebook has been shown to be toxic to democracy, and has been used for genocide. I don’t think it’s out of place to hope that company fails in everything they do.