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I spend a lot of time on both Threads and Mastodon and I think the notion of Threads being highly interweaved with Mastodon is not really going to be much of a
by zzzeek 3y ago
I spend a lot of time on both Threads and Mastodon and I think the notion of Threads being highly interweaved with Mastodon is not really going to be much of a Thing. I'm sure it will be implemented from a technical perspective, but between the already immense hostility to Threads from Mastodon instance operators and users as well as the quite frankly gigantic gaping hole in culture between the two systems, there's not going to be much interplay for very long. Having discussions on Threads vs. Mastodon one has to assume a completely different behavioral posture for each one, the former being all zingers and memes and the latter being fairly reasoned /calm / deliberative (but alas boring!) discussion. The Threads algorithm is really kind of a disaster so far, coupled with a very weak / hobbled search etc., the site is still "fun" but in a really plastic kind of way.
- zer0zzz 3y agoThis is spot on. I wish there were a way to reconcile how annoying boring and opinionated the mastodon experience is with the threads experience that is also really really badly tuned albeit sort of neat in its design language. The threads recommendation algo is really screwed up for sure.