Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.
Threads actually is pretty nice o.o
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#32Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.
Does anyone actually use threads? Everyone seemed to go check it out, but I don't know anyone actively using it.
Some people I know use it. I use it from times to times but the crypto community hasn’t really been active there. My guess is that if you have a big instagram following then Threads make a lot of sense.
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#33Is Bluesky and Threads basically Twitter with different moderation policies? I can see why someone might leave Twitter for Mastodon but why would you leave for one of those 2? Just block people you don't want to see stuff from.
At this point the ownership of Twitter is the problem for a lot of people, and then there's the change to the system itself, neither of which can be resolved by blocking.
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#34How does Bluesky compare to Mastodon?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone actually use threads? Everyone seemed to go check it out, but I don't know anyone actively using it.
It has like, 30x more users than Mastodon lol For now, it's the most viable alternative for Twitter - for now. But this is in part because Mastodon UX is very complicated for beginners, and BlueSky is slow as hell to make improvements. It still doesn't support sending videos...
I'm really curious as to what will happen when Threads turns on ActivityPub federation for everyone. At that point, Threads and Mastodon will be the same network, aside from servers that have preemptively blocked Threads.
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#36How does Bluesky compare to Mastodon?
Mastodon uses ActivityPub for interoperability with a wide ecosystem of apps
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#37It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…
> it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms Compelling for whom? For developers? I’m not sure anyone else will care.
The options this creates are super accessible to non-technical people. You can go on the app store right now and take your pick of bsky clients, and you can browse/search different algos from within the app and keep a list of your favorites and swap between them, it's all very user-friendly
Most of the biggest complaints people have about twitter are client-side problems. So just having an ecosystem of clients (and the competitive pressure that puts on the official client) makes the experience way better
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#38Since the Threads launch, I barely used BlueSky anymore. Now with the new logo, I opened again for the first time in 4 months or so, thinking that well, there was improvements? No.
You still can't send videos and gifs. That's just, so basic for a social network.
Let alone all the other missing things, and how awful the apps are. They are basically the worst example to show React Native. The app here on Android takes 15 seconds to open (an improvement, it took 30 seconds before). It's sluggy, no animations, etc. Feels like Alpha.
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#39Is Bluesky and Threads basically Twitter with different moderation policies? I can see why someone might leave Twitter for Mastodon but why would you leave for one of those 2? Just block people you don't want to see stuff from.
At this point the ownership of Twitter is the problem for a lot of people, and then there's the change to the system itself, neither of which can be resolved by blocking.
Why would you care which billionaire owns the platform? If he annoys you just block him.
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#40Is Bluesky and Threads basically Twitter with different moderation policies? I can see why someone might leave Twitter for Mastodon but why would you leave for one of those 2? Just block people you don't want to see stuff from.
Many of the people that some of us want to follow have now left X.
Often this all gets framed as a "freedom of speech" issue. But I know first hand of women who in recent months on X have been harassed with death threats. When they've reported it has been ignored because the company simply lacks the resources/will to enforce those policies.
And so even if Threads is nothing more than a better-staffed clone that is enough for them.