Anyone using it? I missed the boat on Twitter years ago and decided to make a try out a Threads account. Mostly posting about my hobbies (though don’t have any followers yet).
For those who are using it, how do you think it compares to Twitter?
I’m @misterfoldy on both old and new.
Not enough game chatter on Threads yet, and I think they’re waiting to give you a “following-only” filter until there’s a critical mass of content being generated.
It seems like the algorithm hasn’t been serving my posts to many people yet. It’s weird because when I first started an IG account, I forgot to set it to private and ended up getting a bunch of strangers liking and commenting on my (family) photos. Been posting like crazy on Threads the last couple days and don’t see any engagement yet.
Threads definitely feels like the Instagram of twitter clones. Lots of famous people, lots of influencer accounts, lots of brands.
We will see if people stick with it. People are still clinging on to their Twitter accounts and followers.
I feel like Meta paid a lot of large accounts to post on there.
I wonder if Cambridge Analytica has a Threads account I can follow.
I keep on confusing the social media and the movie - especially bad because there’s a QT3 thread about the movie Threads and another thread about the Zuck Threads.
So far I’m not sure which Threads is more horrifying to look at.
So does anyone find that 9/10 of the feed is accounts with the blue check mark? Is this the same with Twitter as well?
I like that Musk is super pissed off
Yeah, when it runs out of content that you follow, it seems to be celebs, inspirational messages, and people asking ‘what’s your favourite breakfast?’ etc to drive engagement.
It’s all a bit chaotic at the moment (I saw someone refer to it as an ‘attention casino’), I hope they put in a chronological feed soon. Until then, I’ve found it’s best to follow as many people as you can, and when you start getting the random posts in your feed to stop using it for at least a few hours.
Truly the platform’s killer feature.
Yeah I’m trying to use it by topic, sort of a halfway point between Twitter and Reddit, and not having much success so far. Seems mostly ‘influencers’ lifestyles which I get are popular but less interesting to me.
I’ve been trying to follow journalists and other ppl in the games industry. The only problem is that a lot of them haven’t posted much yet. I also try to actively engage more with accounts I want to support I hope that more similar accounts will pop up in the feed.
It’s kind of sad how much work you have to do to actually enjoy it.
If all the people that stopped posting on Twitter are active on Threads I’ll follow them there, I suppose. They certainly didn’t move to Mastodon, instead they just stopped posting entirely.
I will of course make a separate account for it for privacy purposes.
I don’t know about ‘all’ of the people, but I’ve enjoyed seeing posts from some people who stopped using Twitter (Paul F Tompkins, Mark Kermode).
If you wait for them to implement ActivityPub (‘soon’ they say), you won’t need to make a Meta account at all.
Huh, I never even knew PFT was on Twitter.
I expect that to never happen.
We’ll see, but I can’t see what they’d have to gain by promising a feature and then not going ahead with it. They could have just not mentioned it at all, and it would not have made any difference to their roll out, nearly no one cares about it.
They were trying to get buy-in from the open internet crowd, but since it’s, you know, Facebook, that will never ever happen.
Of course, which is why it seems unlikely that that was their motivation.
We can also rule out Facebook doing the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts.
They are no strangers to investigations over anti-competitive practices, and a great defence against that is providing interoperability with other services. So I think their motivation is to preempt future investigations, safe in the knowledge that 99% of their users will never care enough to move their accounts.
But if the risks ever outweigh the rewards, I don’t doubt they’ll reverse course.
Actually, Facebook is highly regarded in the open-source world. They released React, React Native, rocks DB, lots of Chef utils, and zstd. Really fundamental useful stuff. Everybody uses Facebook’s open-source libraries and utilities many times per day, even if they don’t know it.
On the AI side they released PyTorch, which is huge, and of course lets not forget LLaMa, the foundation for pretty much all open-source LLMs evolving and mutating at such a crazy rate today.
Threads isn’t an ancillary “we made this tech and will share it” sort of thing, though. It’s a business move, a fuck you aimed at Ellen.