David GerardJul 7, 2023

"I decided not to follow anyone. And so, for the last couple days, I have only been seeing the raw machinery of Threads. Its algorithm is just blasting me with random posts and, every so often, it tries to show me more of a particular user I click on or spend too long reading in the feed.

"My verdict: Threads sucks shit. It has no purpose. It is for no one. It launched as a content graveyard and will assuredly only become more of one over time."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-algorithmic-anti-culture-of-scale

The algorithmic anti-culture of scale

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Show threadDave O’NeillJul 7, 2023

@davidgerard

I am going to disagree. I think it does what Musk wanted from Twitter. It’s a text version of Instagram aimed at the influencers and brands. It looks like it’s hitting that demo fairly well and they might be onto a winner.

Whether it goes beyond that is a different question. I don’t get the point of Instagram but apparently 2bn other people do so what do I know?

Show thread✨buff dog himbo✨Jul 9, 2023
@daveon @davidgerard a lot of Instagram pple (like me) are largely there because they were there before the Facebook Inc buyout. Instagram used to be a fun place to find & share interesting visual content. After Facebook bought it, it was just a downhill spiral of shitty feature rollouts, throttling of content visibility, shadowbanning & promoting hate speech (just like Facebook). There's still ways to use Instagram & find cool stuff but it's a shell of it's former glory for sure.
Show threadDave O’Neill
@itsmeholland @davidgerard I never worked it out. Or rather I never had the inclination to?
Jul 9, 2023 at 5:51amWeb
Show thread✨buff dog himbo✨Jul 9, 2023
@daveon @davidgerard i mean its pretty hard to sell Instagram to folks who aren't already pretty involved because it just sucks now lol 🤣