A quick two penneth (putting the privacy elephant in the room aside for a moment):
Bluesky: first experience - empty. Void. Hard to find people I want to follow.
Threads: very quick easy setup process if you’re on insta (which will be key for most people), but once in it’s chaos and anxiety inducing. Can’t turn off suggested posts, doesn’t remember where you were (and it’s an algorithmic timeline anyway).
It’s interesting to dip into others, but it just solidifies why I’m on Mastodon.
@jonhicks Bluesky is an odd one. It’s currently sparsely populated, and almost my entire feed is other creators - simply because it’s still invite only. It’s like the lobby at a conference.
Nice to chat to peers, but for an indie artist, entirely useless for building an audience.
Threads will probably be the opposite. A ready made audience, due to existing IG following, but noisy and unpleasant.
@jonhicks I'm sure. Engagement there had taken a dive long before Musk got his hands on Twitter. I doubt they'll use that as an opportunity to 'right' things with Threads though.
Might just go make a zine and hand it out on the street.
@jonhicks Honestly it's amazing how these multi-billion "innovators" manage to produce such mediocre products.
Is that all the biggest social media corporation can do in 2023? Stream some messages?
@jonhicks I made the same conclusion when I looked at their backend: https://fosstodon.org/@wraptile/110665937996484650
That being said, I'm just suprised to find absolutely nothing new. Usually the corporate eye of sauron at least dangles some sort of carrot of "innovation" to appease the peasants. Now the carrot is "we're shitty but we're not the other shitty guy" lol
Attached: 1 image Fired up the good ol' #httpToolkit to take a look at #threads backend. It's basically Instragram's API bootstraped to do text posts. It even uses the same error messages and comes with the same bugs. It's very barebones and has no indication of #federation which makes me think they dropped it in current state to capitalize on #twitter having a meltdown. Everything is behind a login token too. Will be interesting to see how/if they migrate this to fediverse.
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