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It's fresh and there's quite a ideological push against Musk to somehow take Twitter/X down a notch. Considering how Threads is doing (from Meta, with their bi

It's fresh and there's quite a ideological push against Musk to somehow take Twitter/X down a notch. Considering how Threads is doing (from Meta, with their billions of cash to prop it up and 2 biggest social media sites) we'll need to wait a bit and see, usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake.

tptacek 2y ago
I don't think much of this is ideological at all. Paul Graham has been saying the same things on his Twitter TL. Twitter reoriented itself away from implicit partnerships with existing media, and it shows. Maybe that's a good strategy, but like all strategies it involved a tradeoff. Most Twitter users don't really care much about who owns Twitter; instead, the people who do (pro- or anti-) have outsized voices in the conversation.
tokioyoyo 2y ago
Problem with Threads is it being very-PG. No porn and no insulting jokes result in sterile system, which is hardly attractive.
- rrr_oh_man 2y ago
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- sumeno 2y ago
  Regardless of whether they've added them yet, the target audience of Threads is advertisers. They're trying to offer a sanitized version of Twitter that is ultimately boring and soulless just like Facebook
defrost 2y ago
> usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake. LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace are the reason Twitter and Facebook barely have market share?
TkTech 2y ago
Personally, it has nothing to do with Musk. My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed, constantly block similar posts, and am completely uninterested in. My bsky feed is _explicitly_, 100%, only posts I've asked to see.
- bakugo 2y ago
  > My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed So use the "Following" tab? It's right there, for that exact purpose.
  - TkTech 2y ago
    I do, it constantly shows ads and posts I do not follow. Hell it had a half-page Trump ad on election day and I'm not even American. It also periodically resets back to the For You tab.
    - the_snooze 2y ago
      Additionally, reply threads in Twitter make no sense. I'll be following a discussion about sports, and there would be a random (bot? ad?) off-topic post every 4th or 5th reply. I can't help but see people who design social media algorithms to be complete sociopaths: they want to control people's communications and butt in with "recommendations" completely unwelcome, instead of just letting the participants drive the discussion themselves.
rsynnott 2y ago
> usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake. … Hrm, not sure about that. See Friendster, Livejournal, MySpace, Digg, etc.

tptacek 2y ago

I don't think much of this is ideological at all. Paul Graham has been saying the same things on his Twitter TL. Twitter reoriented itself away from implicit partnerships with existing media, and it shows. Maybe that's a good strategy, but like all strategies it involved a tradeoff. Most Twitter users don't really care much about who owns Twitter; instead, the people who do (pro- or anti-) have outsized voices in the conversation.

tokioyoyo 2y ago

Problem with Threads is it being very-PG. No porn and no insulting jokes result in sterile system, which is hardly attractive.

rrr_oh_man 2y ago
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sumeno 2y ago
Regardless of whether they've added them yet, the target audience of Threads is advertisers. They're trying to offer a sanitized version of Twitter that is ultimately boring and soulless just like Facebook

defrost 2y ago

> usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake. LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace are the reason Twitter and Facebook barely have market share?

TkTech 2y ago

Personally, it has nothing to do with Musk. My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed, constantly block similar posts, and am completely uninterested in. My bsky feed is _explicitly_, 100%, only posts I've asked to see.

bakugo 2y ago
> My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed So use the "Following" tab? It's right there, for that exact purpose.
- TkTech 2y ago
  I do, it constantly shows ads and posts I do not follow. Hell it had a half-page Trump ad on election day and I'm not even American. It also periodically resets back to the For You tab.
  - the_snooze 2y ago
    Additionally, reply threads in Twitter make no sense. I'll be following a discussion about sports, and there would be a random (bot? ad?) off-topic post every 4th or 5th reply. I can't help but see people who design social media algorithms to be complete sociopaths: they want to control people's communications and butt in with "recommendations" completely unwelcome, instead of just letting the participants drive the discussion themselves.

rsynnott 2y ago

> usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake. … Hrm, not sure about that. See Friendster, Livejournal, MySpace, Digg, etc.