Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.
Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.
@gruber John, we've known each other for a long time, and this is the most tone deaf take I've ever heard from you.
The primary feature of a social network is content moderation. So far, Facebook's approach to content moderation on Threads is to ban nudity, warn about curse words, and let a global, organized harassment campaign of homophobic and transphobic abuse continue unabated.
Speedrunning the world's largest Nazi bar is not an achievement; it's a colossal failure.
@alexr @gruber @a2_4am whereas I never see that stuff on IG. (And only very rarely on Facebook, unlike Twitter where it’s rampant.) The algorithm selects very different stuff for different people.
Admittedly I mostly follow embroiderers and other fiber artists on IG, so I think the algorithm there thinks I’m an old woman, given thr ads I get. (Which is odd, because Meta certainly knows my actual age and gender given my use of Facebook. 🤷🏻♂️)
John Gruber
(((Jyrki Wahlstedt)))
4am ❧
Alex Rosenberg
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