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At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet. It’s vapid beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.

PM_me_your_math 3y ago
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kzrdude 3y ago
It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything
- tourmalinetaco 3y ago
  It’s a Meta product directly tied to Instagram, I’d be genuinely shocked if this isn’t the high point.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything It's specially too early due to the trainwreck which is Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. If Musk continues to destroy Twitter, we might see the whole world drop it in favour of Threads.
  - ipaddr 3y ago
    We are seeing corporate and brand promoting types and 50 million signups the first day. Compared to Mastodon where real people are having real conversations and the numbers are much lower even with a head start. This tells me threads will be a very corporate platform. At least it's offering something different
    - riidom 3y ago
      How is the onboarding process? Are people logging into their instagram and then see some big new button "Threads is here, click to try out!", or along these lines? Because if I can trust my very quick internet search, instagram has 500 million DAU. So this means 9 out of 10 are not interested in threads?
rewmie 3y ago
> At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet. Have you met Twitter?
spacemadness 3y ago
Is it worse than LinkedIn?
- fullshark 3y ago
  I can't imagine such a place
mcpackieh 3y ago
More vapid than tiktok? Could that even be possible?
nerdbert 3y ago
That's because it's still full of people who just read that you can Build Your Brand by flooding it with dumb engagement-thirsty posts before everyone's follow lists start gelling. Once you are following some people and the app is able to find enough content from there, your feed's quality should improve.

PM_me_your_math 3y ago

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kzrdude 3y ago

It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
It’s a Meta product directly tied to Instagram, I’d be genuinely shocked if this isn’t the high point.
rewmie 3y ago
> It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything It's specially too early due to the trainwreck which is Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. If Musk continues to destroy Twitter, we might see the whole world drop it in favour of Threads.
- ipaddr 3y ago
  We are seeing corporate and brand promoting types and 50 million signups the first day. Compared to Mastodon where real people are having real conversations and the numbers are much lower even with a head start. This tells me threads will be a very corporate platform. At least it's offering something different
  - riidom 3y ago
    How is the onboarding process? Are people logging into their instagram and then see some big new button "Threads is here, click to try out!", or along these lines? Because if I can trust my very quick internet search, instagram has 500 million DAU. So this means 9 out of 10 are not interested in threads?

rewmie 3y ago

> At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet. Have you met Twitter?

spacemadness 3y ago

Is it worse than LinkedIn?

fullshark 3y ago
I can't imagine such a place

mcpackieh 3y ago

More vapid than tiktok? Could that even be possible?

nerdbert 3y ago

That's because it's still full of people who just read that you can Build Your Brand by flooding it with dumb engagement-thirsty posts before everyone's follow lists start gelling. Once you are following some people and the app is able to find enough content from there, your feed's quality should improve.