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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 rcme »

the-smug-one wrote: post #210
rcme wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is bothersome. You mentioned race issues, but you could have easily mentioned climate change: “is it really so unreasonable that people want to talk about keeping the planet hospitable?” Or abortion “is it really so unreasonable women want to talk about having control of their own bodies?” Or the war in Ukraine: “is it really so unreasonable people want to talk about their own political self determination?” T…

I did mention both gender (guy) and economic (rich) status, clearly this race thing is very sensitive to you. > I think it’s a dick move to violate that desire and subtly imply they don’t care about race issues. There was no subtle implication, only your own fantasy.

Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it makes me think you don’t have a good retort.

Also I do think you’re a jerk. You’ve gone from subtly implying I’m racist to an overt accusation. That’s inappropriate imo.

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

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Post by ipaddr »

rewmie wrote: post #130
kzrdude wrote: post #105

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It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything

> It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything It's specially too early due to the trainwreck which is Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. If Musk continues to destroy Twitter, we might see the whole world drop it in favour of Threads.

We are seeing corporate and brand promoting types and 50 million signups the first day. Compared to Mastodon where real people are having real conversations and the numbers are much lower even with a head start. This tells me threads will be a very corporate platform. At least it's offering something different

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

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Post by gloryjulio »

rcme wrote: post #206
the-smug-one wrote: post #189

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Is it really so bothersome to you to hear it pointed out that people who aren't rich white men have very real needs that could be solved with political action and as such they might be more inclined to talk about politics? I'm assuming you're talking about the GOP. That party has a lot of poor white voters, they also have a very real need for political action on their part.

Yes, it is bothersome. You mentioned race issues, but you could have easily mentioned climate change: “is it really so unreasonable that people want to talk about keeping the planet hospitable?” Or abortion “is it really so unreasonable women want to talk about having control of their own bodies?” Or the war in Ukraine: “is it really so unreasonable people want to talk about their own political self determination?” T…

I agree as a minority. The constant virtual signalling is a plague. It's just too excessive and not productive.

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

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Post by riidom »

ipaddr wrote: post #212
rewmie wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It seems like it's too early to judge it on almost anything It's specially too early due to the trainwreck which is Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. If Musk continues to destroy Twitter, we might see the whole world drop it in favour of Threads.

We are seeing corporate and brand promoting types and 50 million signups the first day. Compared to Mastodon where real people are having real conversations and the numbers are much lower even with a head start. This tells me threads will be a very corporate platform. At least it's offering something different

How is the onboarding process? Are people logging into their instagram and then see some big new button "Threads is here, click to try out!", or along these lines?

Because if I can trust my very quick internet search, instagram has 500 million DAU. So this means 9 out of 10 are not interested in threads?

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Post by alistairSH »

stubybubs wrote: post #147
alistairSH wrote: post #89

Sounds just like Twitter. Just more garbage. The only thing I ever found useful on Twitter was notifications from government agencies. Mostly recently, changes in ferry schedules in NC. I feel like I need a “Twitter for governments and public services”. Verified accounts and none of the influencer garbage.

Threads may end up being the best place for exactly that. Uncontroversial content on a stable platform.

What will prevent it from being filled with influencer and other garbage like Twitter.

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

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Post by iszomer »

joker_minmax wrote: post #78
internetter wrote: post #66

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> 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 t…

I primarily use Instagram to follow artists, but yeah, my experience is about the same as what you listed. Before I took a hiatus from it, I just started going directly to my friend's pages to see if they shared anything new, and directly to the artists' pages to see if they were selling prints. Better than being forced to look at ads for essential oils vape pens.

Same here. These days I only use Instagram to post art made and rendered during my commutes and consume similarly fashioned content. I haven't reached the point in "making prints available" nor have the desire to at this point in time.

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

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Post by the-smug-one »

rcme wrote: post #211
the-smug-one wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did mention both gender (guy) and economic (rich) status, clearly this race thing is very sensitive to you. > I think it’s a dick move to violate that desire and subtly imply they don’t care about race issues. There was no subtle implication, only your own fantasy.

Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it make…

Dude, take a break and come back to this in a day or two. I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.

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Post by Buttons840 »

notjoemama wrote: post #74

Slight twist on dead internet theory. It's not that the internet is full of bots, it's that the internet is full of self promotion. Finding real people to have real conversations is more difficult because so many want your engagement/attention for their "brand". Similar to the Black Mirror episode about social credit score.

I started participating in a Discord server and it was awful in all the ways that have been said. Strange UI, info scattered everywhere, mediocre search, can't find anything. I can chat with real people though.

Then I realized, maybe all this is good in a way. Discord allows you to chat with real people, but if you want to promote yourself or do some stealth advertising, it sucks. In the end it seems to be full of honest to goodness normal people who share an interest.

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

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Post by least »

mvdtnz wrote: post #204
CuriousSkeptic wrote: post #201

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Are there truly no ads? Have been putting it of thinking it just removes the google injected ads, but keeping all the promotions and such

There are no ads at all provided by YouTube. Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads, which is becoming increasingly common.

Sponsorblock[1] works pretty well for the creators’ advertisements.

[1] https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

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