I haven’t used threads and I never will, but it’s nice to see that it’s not a great user experience even for people who are used to meta.
Am I starting to think we have less to worry about from Threads?
Simply because Threads is so lame it may very well experience a failure to launch.
I don’t think it will fail that hard, because in general people love to be on the same platform as celebrities and have a way to interact with famous people. I still worry how it will affect the Fediverse we have now.
I signed up and tied it. It’s utter chaos, forced algorithmic feed, you can’t even only view posts from people you follow, you’re force fed random crap from American celebs.
I have no desire to try Threads for myself (apparently you need an Instagram account to even start, which kills any modicum of interest I might have stone dead right there), but I have been noting down my favorite descriptions of the Threads experience from various bloggers and social media posts:
- like a 90s-themed office party organized by a human resources department.
- like when a local restaurant you enjoy opens a location in an airport.
- like if an entire social network was those posts that tell you what successful entrepreneurs do before 6AM.
- like watching a Powerpoint from the Brand Research team where they tell you that Pop Tarts is crushing it on social.
- like Casual Friday on LinkedIn.
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Yep, I signed up, was ok for a day or so and now it’s just an unmanageable stream of bs.
Wil be removing myself as soon as I can see that I can do that without deleting my IG account.
They will never let you remove yourself without deleting the IG account… At least I don’t think it will happen.
They say a lot of things don’t they. :)
I don’t trust what they say, but maybe you get lucky.
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I do want Threads to fail and I admit a find enjoyment in that, if they do. I think big tech is poison and has no respect for human beings whatsoever.
Considering how facebook has been shown to be toxic to democracy, and has been used for genocide. I don’t think it’s out of place to hope that company fails in everything they do.
That looks terrible, but I will note (though they are confined to communities) I have a similar growing blocklist on Lemmy. It seems every day I find a new meme or “let’s all complain about Reddit” community to block.
I’m here for OC and interesting discussion, but I keep stumbling over low effort posts throughout my feed.
There is a lot of low effort posts right now, yeah. I think people are not sure if users will stay and therefore kind of chitchat a lot right now instead of using it for real knowledge sharing.
honestly a lot better then reddit, I didn’t care about the api fiasco but after the blackout it felt like everything drooped in quality so quickly and that’s why I came here
