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I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Post by ykonstant »

hhh wrote: post #6

Muting like this is in my opinion dumb. Just move on, you don’t need to ‘purge’ their ability to reach your eyes. Threads is brand new, and the home feed is not meant to be only people you follow as of now.

I don't know about Threads, but in Mastodon mutes, filters and the occasional block make the experience vastly better.

Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Post by whimsicalism »

For me, Reels has never been able to zero in on my interests in the way that TikTok has. Reels mostly shows stupid, low denominator content compared to TikTok which is showing me math videos, videos about ML, etc.

Algo-feed only Threads means trusting the same sort of algo behind Reels and I am not convinced that it will work. Twitter allows for much easier bootstrapping.

Already, I am pretty turned off by how inundated Threads is with celebrity content that I really could not care less about.

Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Post by distantsounds »

Yes, when you have no followers/new posts from followers the feed with fill itself with what it thinks you might like. It's not very good right now because it probably needs more data points, but if I can suggest one thing, it's this: Get More Friends. That way the feed has people you want instead. Algorithms can only help so much in that space. I can't believe this isn't obviously pointed out.

Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Post by idlewords »

Meta is courting the risk of going full Orkut, where people come by to check out early hype on an unfinished product, find the feature set underwhelming, and head off elsewhere. The tradeoff with getting tens of millions of users at launch is that it will be harder to get a disappointed user to come back and try again than it was to get them to try the first time.

I'm sure for the dev team this is a busy time, and the work they need to do to accommodate so many new users creates a feeling of forward progress. But none of that work (from what I'm seeing in discussions) seems to involve adding basic functionality, while in the interim people are forming a durable first impression of the service.

Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience

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Post by idlewords »

pornel wrote: post #11

The app is obviously an MVP. The force-fed feed makes a lot of sense when there's little content, plus helps set the intended style/atmosphere/topics they want on there. They've probably underestimated how quickly people will rebuild their social graph.

It's obviously an MP; whether it's V remains to be seen.

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Post by infinitezest »

If you have to put that kind of work into a platform to make it usable, I would suggest putting it into a platform that aligns with your values. I just can't understand why anyone, even "normals", would be so eager to jump into bed with Facebook again after the last decade.
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