> It’s better than Twitter, of course, which has Berlin 1937-vibes.
Other than giving himself away as a hyperbolic partisan ass, the rest of the article was really funny. I said something similar about the metaverse: it's not really possible to build a community at scale out of nothing like this. Organic growth is what makes something authentic, if you just plop down a multi-million user new community, it gets all of the problems or a big platform without any of the entrenched good stuff that made it popular. It will be interesting to see if it's possible to convert, I doubt it because it will require a patience and stubbornness that Meta has never shown.
Threads is an interesting move because of the context. However, I believe that Facebook will continue to alienate a large segment of its users through its aggressive bias. You can't please everyone, but simply censoring and banning one political side is not a viable approach. As we saw with the Twitter files this ultimately snowballs, creating a larger problem that will resurface.
I'm not optimistic about the Threads product, but I think its failure will be a positive overall impact on public discourse.
Facebook isn't our friend. Zuck doesn't want a "more friendly place" he wants censorship and monetization.
Twitter is a bunch of journalists snarking about the news. Seems like threads is a bunch of Instagram celebrities using a 2nd medium for brand management. It seems like people are only there in case it takes off and that’s not going to be interesting conversation.
I joined mastodon relatively early and really enjoyed the experience. I’m a believer in the fediverse so I hope Threads takes off
Does anyone know if it is possible in Threads to only show content from people I follow?
Threads seems like a great example of commoditize your complement.[1]
If you can start with the premise that the primary paying audience for both Twitter and Instagram are advertisers then the value Threads provides to Meta is to provide an additional feature bundle to those advertisers. Basically:
"Hey look Mr. Brand Advertiser, included in your $999 a month Instagram ad subscription, you now get access to Threads (our Twitter clone) with 1K Thread ad impressions bundled in for free - for a limited time only."
[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
One advantage of threads over Facebook is that with threads there’s no expectation of privacy for people to get confused about. That’s refreshing
I think you can tell a lot about the author based on the fact that they think Bluesky is “free flowing and authentic”
The fact that Threads doesn't even work on desktop is enough to disqualify it from ever being used for "serious" use-cases in my opinion. If nothing else, it's enough to make it unusable for personally.
The fact that the advertised Fediverse integration doesn't even exist in the current version is very funny to me as well.
I feel like it will find its niche with people who feel comfortable on Instagram, but it certainly doesn't come close to replacing Twitter for me.
Yeah, this feels exactly like the Google+ launch.
And of course that the thread got flagged, for whatever reason.
Threads is an MVP to get people who are fed up with Twitter. It works and they're committed to improving it.
I don't think Threads will have the same fate as other Facebook/Meta products simply because the sign up process is so painless. If you use Instagram (which like 1bn+ people do) then signing up just means downloading the app and pressing a couple of buttons. So barrier of entry is extremely low and Instagram is still popular with young people.
Facebook was forgotten by young people already in 2012, so Facebook Poke was not really going to compete. I don't think you can draw parallels there.
I'm excited to see if they can innovate in the space. I don't really see Zuckerberg as a bad figure.
Nice bit of polemic. but essentially content-free.
Threads has such a feigned positivity feeling to it. It's uncomfortable. Like the entire app is an HR cultural video. I'm sure the influencers they poached to the app were given a list of threads to post like "What's an inspiration quote you guys like?" or "What books have you read recently?" Of course this is all intentional since the end goal is just placating advertisers when they eventually add ads to the feed.
Maybe when Meta is done paying people off to post fake things the real culture will make it through.
Threads has been out for… one full day? Maybe the histrionics are premature? Maybe the everyone-has-an-opinion-and-is-therefore-a-pundit motif can take one day off to let a new product breathe?
This was an entertainingly written piece.
Threads, as an MVP, does not yet have the ability to see only content from those you follow. That hardly means it won't. Already, activity from those you follow shows up first in your feed, so TBH it's a pretty good experience until you run out of followees' content. It's extremely premature to write it off.
> Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport
What's wrong with $19 turkey sandwich, is delicatessen 25€ turkey sandwich better?
Not a fan of Threads, but even less of a fan of Twitter.
So I'd personally want Threads to succeed. Everything about Twitter is broken especially in the recent months. I'm not saying Threads is good, but Threads at least has a chance not to be as bad as Twitter. Also fediverse support in the future is a huge plus.
I can’t wait for it to be filled with 75/25 advertising to social post ratio.
> Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg
Can everyone agree to refer to Zuck like this from now on?
> But if not, uh, I guess you can follow me on Threads.
All that melodrama, complaining and whining in the blog post and then ends up using Threads.
Quite amusing to read.
> Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg
Into the garbage bin it goes.
These complaints are so cringe. This looks just a stupid as twitter. Complaining about twitter sucking and threads sucking is so weird. People seem to think highly of twitter more so than it ever was.
His main point is that it is forced and artificial. One vague heuristic a lot of people consider is the value of a social network depends on its "weird" subcultures. I feel however everything is far more sanitized and corporate friendly now. I really can't imagine a fun, weird subculture forming on threads.