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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 haliskerbas »

infinitezest wrote: post #20

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.

I saw some posts urging people to “get in on the beginning” in order to take advantage of the primitive ranking and go viral. Everyone wants a chance at that. Just like the promise of pump and dump crypto’s or the still private startups that told me “you just don’t understand how equity works, we are about to IPO soon, take our lowball offer”

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

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Post by one_level_deep »

jfengel wrote: post #40
speak_plainly wrote: post #33

I think there is a larger question about the role that celebrities, influencers, meme accounts, thirst trap accounts, or any other account that is incentivized to post play on social media. You immediately saw the energy and positivity drop as these groups arrived to threads. Perhaps it was a mix of egotism, phoniness, and shallow attempts at engagement, but you also saw engagement and follows rise with that group. T…

I'm interested in the contrast between the news producers, who want you to pay for content, and the flood of people desperate to attract your attention without anything of value. It feels like there is a certain amount of worthwhile stuff, despite vast numbers of people seeking ways to create it. You'd think with billions of people trying we'd get more things worth actually looking at. Is is because a lot of people j…

== Is is because a lot of people just really have nothing to contribute to the world?==

Perhaps they simply have a different definition of “contribute”?

Seems there are plenty of things for other people to look at given the download and signup data.

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

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Post by nick-of-time »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #42
hairofadog wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you and I have no plans to sign up for threads, but I have to admit that there's some part of my monkey brain that has softened on meta throughout all this. I am not saying that feeling is justified; only admitting it's there. I think the last decade has given us events and people who went out of their way to make "normal" levels of malevolence seem quaint or even charming.

I have a hard time giving up FB because so much family and old friends are on it, but intellectually I know it's awful. Probably worse than Musk's Twitter, TBH. Zuckerberg has personally done a better job of not being public-crazy than Musk (just cringey), but his platform has arguably net-effects worse on society. They crossed the line last fall when they put me in FB jail for posting a picture of my son at the beac…

Facebook is even worse in other countries, where they promote outrage algorithmically then don't hire any moderators to even try and keep it in check. This way they're implicated in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/07/facebooks...

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

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Post by xg15 »

whalesalad wrote: post #5

This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.

Yeah, it's not like meta has any other social media platforms to have gathered experience from...

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

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Post by Pxtl »

infinitezest wrote: post #20

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.

I started onto Threads.

I really tried to make Mastodon work for me, but the lack of discoverability killed it.

As somebody with trans people in my family, getting away from Musk's Twitter is a priority. But Twitter is where I get a lot of news and entertainment.

I would rather have seen Mastodon win, but their product just isn't good enough.

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

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Post by mantas »

Reason077 wrote: post #9

I feel like Twitter has gotten worse for this lately too: I've had to use the mute button much more frequently than I used to. In the past, Twitter's feed was almost too smart/focused, and kept giving you basically only the same subjects and content over and over again. Now day's it's broadened what you see, but also keeps giving random (and sometimes, offensive) nonsense that I have to mute. It also doesn't seem to…

Turns out quality content targeting hurts views and engagement.

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

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

subroutine wrote: post #50
hairofadog wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you and I have no plans to sign up for threads, but I have to admit that there's some part of my monkey brain that has softened on meta throughout all this. I am not saying that feeling is justified; only admitting it's there. I think the last decade has given us events and people who went out of their way to make "normal" levels of malevolence seem quaint or even charming.

Perhaps the softening is related to the open sourcing of LLaMa? I softened a bit on Microsoft after it started embracing the open source approach in the 2010s... even if the motivate was being late to the party.

The LLaMA weights still have a restrictive license.
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