psychothumbsPeople Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not To.
What will they thread next to mastadod, mastadonis the old Twitter, people were brainwashed by these two stinkers
Mossy Feathers (She/Her)Bluesky is literally just old Twitter but better. Why do people insist on hurting themselves with Threads?
Yeah the only problem with bluesky is that it still has such strict limits on who can join, and even who can see the content. Can’t exactly make it your online home for announcements and such if most people can’t see them there even if they wanted to.
You know what makes the Nobel Prize so valuable? Not everyone gets one.
Blue sky is following the early Facebook playbook of artificial exclusivity. When the feeling of FOMO is widespread enough, they’ll gradually open the door wider.
I’m not quite sure social media accounts and the Nobel Prize make a good comparison. I get what you’re saying about the exclusivity idea, but in my mind “exclusive” social media can’t really be that much of a draw if there’s a million alternatives and it doesn’t bring anything new to the table (it’s not decentralized or federated if you need approval from a central authority).
It’s a club with people lining up outside then.
“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member”
I’ll take a Bluesky invite if you have one, I’d get on there in an instant. But otherwise the answer to your question is people don’t have the better option.
Because the majority of people don’t even know what bluesky is, and those who do can’t get an invite
They’re a lot more common than you think; you get an invite to give out every 10 days. It’s just that you gotta ask around for them. If you’re looking for an invite, try asking a furry. I think most of the furry community who wants to be on Bluesky is already there at this point, so there are probably a number of furries who have tons of unused invites.
I’ll never understand why people are so excited for something that is proprietary and invite-only…
Oh yeah, they’re idiots.
Nah, it’s because it’s less of a headache than Mastodon (everyone I’ve talked to likes the idea, but hates the implementation because they find it hard to navigate) and it’s not a mess like Threads or Twitter. What people want is 2015 Twitter because they’re not nerds. They want it to just work.
As for the invite-only thing, I found it odd at first, but I kinda understand why people like it now. It makes it harder for assholes to join and if they do manage to get an invite, they’ll have to get another one after their account gets banned for bigotry or being a shithead.
The problem is its centralized nature. As a business, it’s going to do what businesses do and get people hooked, then slowly enshittify their products/services until a competitor takes over.
be_excellent_to_each_otherMore folks need to learn about firefish. It federates with Mastodon and has a much nicer UX and UI.
There are many instances, but the main one is firefish.social
I’ve also heard good things about Calckey.
Firefish is what Calckey became when rebranded recently. 😁
It’s hard because people are confused about multiple instances. Bluesky is a solo instance, to date, so they avoid that issue. But it will come.
People leaving twitter for instawords deserve to be let down
As far as I’m concerned it’s still just Facebook
wait, people still use threads?
ripcordQuite a few apparently.
Not great, but still better than TwitX.
SteveBe careful what you wish for, folks!
They want a social network designed in a way that single company have all control that would be abused after gaining enough users and advertisers?
sabTrust me, we'll do the exact same thing again, having learned nothing and with the same exact person on top. Literally the same exact thing that enabled all the fascists some months ago.
It's going to be great this time around!!
PxtlThe problem is that the painfully earnest people went to Mastodon, the funny people went to BlueSky, the celebs went to Threads, and the mod-tier YouTubers and Streamers and Podcasters who have to be Internet Famous every damned day or they don’t get to eat stayed on Twitter.
Personally I’m pulling for Mastodon because I’m a painfully earnest person.
That explains why I like Mastodon! Painfully earnest individual here.
Margot RobbieIf there was only some way for people on different microblog websites to talk to each other…
Maybe some kind of open, decentralized protocol?
ChrisLichtNot to overly focus on aesthetics, but maybe Zuckerberg could take a few minutes away from his daily groping of paid-friends, and instead work with an acting coach to develop a look for photos that isn’t best described as Robot Rictus.
One would assume he can afford eyebrows now.