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    Only needed one sentence there to know all I need to. “Currently there is no way to only see people you follow.” Lol so more bullshit like Facebook and Instagram where you get friend, Ad, sponsored post, you might like this, group post, friend, Ad, Ad…

    Just another way for Facebook to feed you non stop adverting in between tiny bites of content. We talk about how terrible Reddit is…I don’t understand how my wife uses Facebook at all.

    I feel bad for people who will get sucked into this nonsense and enjoy the fediverse through an app that is basically malware come to life.

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      As far as I’m aware. No big youtuber has mentioned the fediverse in their posts or videos about threads. It’s either they don’t know or don’t care. Unfortunately we might need to battle threads alone

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        Gen z and lower don’t use the internet like millennials and above. My cousins and sister are all under 20 and use group chats, dischord, Snapchat and tiktok because they want connections with their groups of friends not strangers online.

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          My daughter is 15 and you’re exactly right. Demographic wise…who do guy think the target audience for threads is and how is meta going to stay in business if Gen Z uses NONE of their apps?

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      I think it’s like that now cause they rushed release, given Twitter’s recent issues.

      As of now, there are no ads. The main feed is essentially a jumbled mess of your followers and random popular posts. They say they don’t plan to monetize until it’s more fleshed out, so we’ll see how long that takes.

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        It’ll happen when they capture the biggest portion of Twitter’s users. As soon as that happen enshittification shall descend upon it.

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    I mean it’s Facebook, why would anyone expect anything but diarrhea from a laxative loaded sandwich?

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    This is overly pessimistic IMO.

    Yes, it’s full of brands and influencers posting inane things. It’s also only been open for what a day or two? It’s new and the first big name replacement for Twitter that has momentum.

    Remember back when Twitter was new? When everyone cool was saying it was full of inane influencers and randoms posting about their lunch or stupid observations? It took years to be as big as it is (which isn’t that big to be fair) and so useful for things like news, politics, communities, etc.

    The internet has speed up since Twitter came out so I think we’ll see what Threads ends up being by the end of the year. So far it has insane hype behind it, something no other Twitter like service since has had. Let’s see if that becomes something more.

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    Seems pretty hyperbolic. I joined through my insta out of curiosity and I saw like half my friends posting stuff already, saying hi or an update about their life. And all the meme accounts I follow were already posting shit ofc. I’m sure a significant fraction of Lemmy’s interactions are based around meme posts, so we’re doing the same thing they are. That’s just how humans like existing on the internet.

    For the record I’m anti Facebook, but you can’t get around the fact that almost all your friends and everyone you see walking around likely has an Instagram account. It’s just a given and I feel like people here hate acknowledging that.

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      While it is hyperbolic if you only consider posts that are not immediate, that’s not the main part od the article.

      the point of following ppl on Twitter, for the author, is sharing and reading thoughts about very precise moments, like a comeback in a debate, or a team scoring in a game

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    Have you ever been high/drunk and you walk into a CVS and the security guard is staring at you? That’s what Threads is.

    This part makes me want to read more from this author.

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      They had me with

      "Threads feels like when a local restaurant you enjoy opens a location in an airport.

      It feels like a Twitter alternative you would order from Brookstone."

      Perfectly captures the banal uncanny valley of it all

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      Mastodon (and other FOSS ActivityPub platforms) aren’t just great because they are open source, they are great because they are distributed.

      The Internet was designed to be resilient, famously designed to withstand (a nuclear) attack. The World Wide Web started to make it monolithic and Web 2.0 resulted in a more centrally controlled infrastructure.

      When an attack comes from above (like Musk, /u/spez, Meta and Google) one (group of) individual(s) can take our whole swathes of content in one policy change.

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    Those screenshots are unreal. Did real people write those? Unironically? Screenshots from Threads is going to do for cringe what Twitter screenshots did for humor.

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    It is an app stuffed with verified users I’ve never heard of who have 7 million YouTube subscribers. They all do Epic Pranks and they spread Positive Vibes and they Don’t Talk Politics Here.

    What a shit show. No wonder why depression disorders are skyrocketing.

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    I mean I’m too old to “get it” too, but this blog post just reads like an old man yelling at kids to get off their lawn lol

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    Me before reading this article: “I’m never going to install or use Threads, and I’m not remotely interested in it.”

    Me after reading this article: “Ok, now it has my attention, but only in the same way that seeing a multi-vehicle pileup in an ice storm does: You can’t help but wonder how many more cars are going to plow into it.”