I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by brucethemoose2 » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:26 PM UTC

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 would love to see them deprioritize these financially motivated accounts and try to focus more on local and more genuine interactions, otherwise they will just fall into the same trap Twitter has been stuck in for years.

Meta goes farther than Twitter ever did, as they actually deprioritize the more news-like content.

After all, why pay for less engaging content when you have users tripping over themselves to game engagement for free? Ignoring long term health (and the health of the society they inhabit) seems to have worked out for Meta so far.

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

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Post by gumballindie » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:30 PM UTC

I just find it hilarious how people pivoted from crypto to ai to threads. What’s next on the list? Deffo not something useful. But like i said before - anything that puts twitter out of its misery is welcome.

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

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Post by internetter » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:33 PM UTC

FridgeSeal wrote: post #44

mchanson wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's fair to call it getting into bed. More like trying out the new ice cream place that everyone is trying.

(Continuing this analogy) Except that the icecream place is run by a group known for extremely poor hygiene, manipulating customers and lacing their other food products with nicotine to ensure chemical dependency issues.

So basically fast food?

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

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Post by berkle4455 » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #21

As an alternative, you could just not use the product

Seriously. I didn't sign up for Threads and I haven't had to mute a single account.

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

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Post by paddw » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:38 PM UTC

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.

people love twitter. they want twitter run by "normals". zuck has said threads will be twitter run by "normals". this is what they want. this is what they will use.

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

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Post by internetter » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

542458 wrote: post #24

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, I used threads for a few minutes and quickly discovered that’s it’s just not a product that caters to me… yet. Right now I think it’s probably only great if you’re really into the e-celeb scene. But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough and my feed will become full of stuff I care about. I’ll check back i…

> But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough

I keep hearing this. "Oh! The Algorithm gets me so well! It's so freaky!" about TikTok, IG, everything really... But let me tell you how my IG feed goes:

I get 3 posts at the top, posted by my friends. I like all of them – even if I didn't like it. I'm just pleading to the algorithm to show me more from the people I care about. I then scroll for another 30 seconds through endless muck of golden retrievers, frat boys, etc. I'm hoping to see another post from my friends, but it just doesn't come. I leave the app for another week, until my friend shows me a post she made 2 weeks ago that was never shown to me.

The algorithm makes social media a painful experience I avoid. I've enjoyed Mastodon, Snapchat, and BeReal MAGNITUDES more... Platforms without one, platforms where I'm actually "social".

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

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Post by uptownfunk » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:47 PM UTC

Threads is just tiktok meets Twitter, stuff you didn’t ask for but hopefully stuff you really like. They nailed the first part, the second part not so much. I quit it once I figured out they were trying to hook me like all the other social media.

Twitter, for all it’s controversy, doesn’t feel that way.

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

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Post by seydor » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 3:05 PM UTC

> insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

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

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Post by dorfsmay » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #38

dorfsmay wrote: post #36

I was surprised by having no option and forcing everybody to their algorithm when their other platform either show you content from accounts you follow first and tell you when you're done (instagram) or have an option to show you content from your friends only or friends + group (Facebook's "your feed" and "friends"). I personally don't mind ads, somebody needs to pay for the service and I prefer ada over forced paid…

I suspect they will launch "Following/Friend" soon. Part of me thinks they pushed the launch when Elon was limiting tweets. I don't mind ads either if they are obvious and targeted (no more penis ads like the early days of the internet). I suspect Meta won't turn on ads for awhile, but when they do, they have one of the biggest ad markets to tap into. I suspect soon enough advertisers will see an additional button in…

> they pushed the launch when Elon was limiting tweets.

Isn't Musk hinting that twitter implemented rate limits because Meta/Threads were scraping them agreaaively?

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

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Post by coolbreezetft22 » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 3:11 PM UTC

Am the only one who doesn't make profiles on these things and just goes directly to the URL of the people whose posts I'm interested in reading??

That way I'm only reading people I am actually interested in. Might reduce discoverability but eventually the people I "follow" in this way will mention/reply/retweet someone else worth following as well.