Derek Powazek 🐐I figured it out. Threads is just Facebook. That’s it. It’s just Facebook for the people on Insta who think they’re too good for Facebook.
Ian Rose@fraying It's the perfect Meta project. Not only a worse version of a competing platform, but also a worse version of a platform they already own. It's glorious. They should have sent a poet.
DFunk@ianrosewrites @NewtonMark @fraying And the worst possible name: “Threads”
Known to all screen readers as “Threats”
Also either Threats, or Trets to most of the non-english speaking world. (and most of the english speaking world for that matter-try to enunciate that pluralized terminal D clearly. Don’t roll off the tongue.
“Threats” is negative and scary and a brain-dead choice.
I hear they’re calling their Toots “Throots”. Clever, no? No.