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

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Post by claudiulodro »

dorfsmay wrote: post #69
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

AFAIK originally he said it was 100 AI companies using it for training data and then eventually morphed that to this line of reasoning, but why would Meta possibly need to scrape Twitter and, even if they did, why would they be so hamfisted about it given that they already have the `facebookexternalhit` scraper which hasn't been causing issues. I'd take Musk's statement with a big grain of salt.

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

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Post by xeromal »

joker_minmax wrote: post #79
xeromal wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just signed up for threads to hopefully help annoy Elon which is very petty and useless of course but I ended up following a bunch of nat geo photographers who are all over threads and really enjoy my feed at the moment. Nothing wrong with admiring beautiful pics of the world. That sounds like instagram and you're not wrong, but the photographers themselves are more present so you can ask questions which feels diff…

Do you mind dropping the names?

Yeah, first follow

* natgeo : Then you'll start seeing that account replying to its photgraphers and you can build your own list.

* michaelgeorge

* reuben

* cosmic_background (I don't think he's natgeo but still neat)

* benashtonart (Also not natgeo but fun)

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

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Post by firecall »

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.

At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet.

It’s vapid beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.

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

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Post by firecall »

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.

That may be true, but I really don’t think I want to.

It’s Instagram in words, and Instagram by and large is an awful, fake and vapid place.

Threads might be decent software, but the content is horrible.

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

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Post by martinflack »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #61
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 gam…

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

I think an interesting experiment would be to also prioritize some "news-ish" "good news" of the type that wouldn't quite make major TV news broadcasts. The type of stuff that John Krasinski was doing with Some Good News during the pandemic.

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

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Post by firecall »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #75

Once I saw giant Gary V hustle culture threads pop up on my timeline 1 day into trying Threads I knew I had seen enough.

Yep, same here.

Immediately saw a sanctimonious GaryVee thread and was instantly turned off.

It’s all so cringe, as the kids say.

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

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Post by 26fingies »

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.

That seems to be the logical conclusion of commodifying literally everything. Now that everything is commodity every interaction is a sales pitch.

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

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Post by PM_me_your_math »

firecall wrote: post #83
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.

At the risk of sounding mean, Threads really is the dumbest place on the Internet. It’s vapid beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.

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

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Post by alistairSH »

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.

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

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Post by graycat »

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…

> 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.

Have thought that this was a problem so have been working on a solution. At some point intend to announce on HN. I'm supposed to do a "Show HN"?

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