psychothumbsFacebook's Threads is so depressing
VaggumonI mean it’s Facebook, why would anyone expect anything but diarrhea from a laxative loaded sandwich?
BaroqueInMindWhat a colorful description. Love it.
eroc1990That description was a trip.
Chaotic Entropyadvertisement for new pants pops in to your feed
I enjoyed the authors metaphors
Not only enjoyed them but I had memories and emotions from them
MisterMooI'll think about them for the minutes to come
I ended up subscribing to their Substack account.
It reminded me of Regular Car Reviews, if you’ve ever seen that.
Spot on with Twitter having Berlin 1937 vibes
Have you ever been high/drunk and you walk into a CVS and the security guard is staring at you? That’s what Threads is.
This part makes me want to read more from this author.
They had me with
"Threads feels like when a local restaurant you enjoy opens a location in an airport.
It feels like a Twitter alternative you would order from Brookstone."
IgnacioIt is an app stuffed with verified users I’ve never heard of who have 7 million YouTube subscribers. They all do Epic Pranks and they spread Positive Vibes and they Don’t Talk Politics Here.
What a shit show. No wonder why depression disorders are skyrocketing.
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.
HubertMannejust what a thread lover would say.
Check out Mastodon. That’s where the real cool kids are.
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
The worst aspects of the internet quarantined in one location? Wow, Zuckerberg is actually doing great by creating that festering dump.
wagesj45Those screenshots are unreal. Did real people write those? Unironically? Screenshots from Threads is going to do for cringe what Twitter screenshots did for humor.
massive_bereavementI got the same reaction. I guess now we know why the company is called Meta.
Fantastic article, 10/10 read. The roasts are on-point
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.
trouser_mouseWow fuck that.
niktemadurMadlads material right here.
kescusayMe 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.”
NeatoWait, what's wrong with the Try Guys? Or did I misinterpret that?
That article was a fun read. Now I won’t be trying threads but I wasn’t going to before too.
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.
SalvoMastodon (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.
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
depThreads is the Good Morning America of social media.
ScOULarisHaha, wow. This is a perfect metaphor. Well done.
mysoulishomeOnly 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 think if somebody wants that kind of content they are well served already by Reddit, Facebook etc.
Please don’t go to Lenny and try to turn it into that.
A Purpl PantherI 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.
MarxineIt’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
DuckefGen 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?
astral_avocadoSeems 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”
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
This is overly pessimistic IMO.
Yes, it’s full of brands and influencers posting inane things. It’s also only been open for what a day or two? It’s new and the first big name replacement for Twitter that has momentum.
Remember back when Twitter was new? When everyone cool was saying it was full of inane influencers and randoms posting about their lunch or stupid observations? It took years to be as big as it is (which isn’t that big to be fair) and so useful for things like news, politics, communities, etc.
The internet has speed up since Twitter came out so I think we’ll see what Threads ends up being by the end of the year. So far it has insane hype behind it, something no other Twitter like service since has had. Let’s see if that becomes something more.
What metatrap does the best, trial and error
& if it fails they’ll throw some Gs on somebody who succeeded
Yeah I don’t think any big social media company has ever successfully launched a new website, only bought startups.
It feels so manufactured and fake.
Like LinkedIn