#Threads is pretty much like a dead town square, which tries to use it's bigger brother #Instagram, the actual town square, to funnel users toward it. (1/11) 🧵
@kq From the over 100M+ people that have signed up there, less than 10% are active, which is one of the lowest MAUs there is on a platform. (2/11)
@kq I have no idea how long that platform will last, but as long as it is and might be staying, let's cherish it. Expecting/hoping a downfall within ~5 years. (3/11)
@kq I love the #UI though. It's intuitive, it's sleek, and it definitely does absolutely not look like #Twitter or as it's called right now, #X. (4/11)
@kq There will be a great Threads-odus once #Meta messes up some way or the other, or it just entirely shuts down and people go back to X or finally join the #Fediverse for real. (5/11)
@kq Threads doesn't feel like the real deal, or even something one would use to get introduced to the Fediverse. It feels like a fake plug on. (6/11)
@kq Like genuinely, Threads literally got #DEFEDERATED from most Fediverse #instances right from the get-go and you can't even find half the people that are here. (7/11)
@kq It's like #Instagram or #Facebook or #Meta users HAD to connect to another social network, and decided to get in the Fediverse - just to get abandoned by most of them. (8/11)

@kq Besides, I don't see much people knowing about what the Fediverse is, or even that their posts are not out in there by default.

Yes, there's a switch you gotta turn on to push it out to the Fediverse. Otherwise it's just limited to your fellow Threads users. (9/11)

@kq I have a feeling #Meta did this intentionally to scour out more #data from elsewhere on the #Internet (aka the Fediverse) because it just wasn't enough for them, as usual and used the universal goodwill of "connecting" people. (10/11)
@kq This is bonkers. But I'm excited to see if anything exciting comes up soon - except the obvious Instagram DMs losing the #E2EE feature by this May (not exciting).
(11/11)

@kq P.S. if you were wondering why i suddenly started talking about Threads, it's because I'm checking out the platform to see what it really is. i'm at threads.com/@kqthrs

not to promote it either, even ieji.de doesn't federate with it. HELL YEAH.