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People keep missing the point of Threads. It isn't designed to be a pure Twitter clone and doesn't want to become the public square for news, politics etc. It
by threeseed 2y ago
People keep missing the point of Threads. It isn't designed to be a pure Twitter clone and doesn't want to become the public square for news, politics etc.
It wants to be a text-centric network that helps release Instagram to be more video-centric to compete with TikTok. And so it wants content that is fun, interesting and light. And of course easily monetisable.
So I know people like having a fight but I see the two sites as being complimentary and both needing to thrive in order to relegate X to the dust bin.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoInstagram was the only social network that kept me around because it was mostly art and nice photos. Recently i caught myself scrolling past endless videos and thought, shit, I've been tiktokked. Back to scrolling through hacker news comments to rot my brain instead.
- danielbln 2y agoI had to disable my YouTube watch history recently because I got trapped into shorts frequently and the only way to disable those is to kill the watch history. One might think it's only Gen Z/Alpha that is susceptible to the Tiktok dopamine squeeze, but no, works just as well on us old geezers and it's pretty nefarious how well it works.