Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: I wanted to give it a try and signed up for #Threads - here's what I found: 1) A ...
I wanted to give it a try and signed up for #Threads - here's what I found:
1) A flood of posts from people I don't know, about topics I'm not interested in, clearly promotional or designed to grab attention.
2) No hashtags, lists, nothing.
3) Behind an apparently clean interface, I believe there's something hastily published just to have the right timing (and I think they succeeded).
4) People excited to be part of the new social platform, but without providing any specific reason or added value compared to Twitter or the Fediverse.
5) A generic sense of rivalry towards #Twitter or the #Fediverse. It almost seems like many joined just to spite Elon Musk or to prove that "Threads is better than #Mastodon". However, they demonstrate a lack of clear understanding of either platform.
Overall, I felt disoriented, much more than when I first entered the Fediverse years ago. We'll see, but I didn't find anything particularly exciting at the moment.
About the "70 Millions users joined overnight" statement: all the (non European) Instagram users can just join #Threads with two taps. They could just have launched Threads as an #Instagram extension and...puff, more than one billion users subscribed in 10 seconds!
#SocialMedia #review #Meta #SocialNetworks #Hype
1) A flood of posts from people I don't know, about topics I'm not interested in, clearly promotional or designed to grab attention.
2) No hashtags, lists, nothing.
3) Behind an apparently clean interface, I believe there's something hastily published just to have the right timing (and I think they succeeded).
4) People excited to be part of the new social platform, but without providing any specific reason or added value compared to Twitter or the Fediverse.
5) A generic sense of rivalry towards #Twitter or the #Fediverse. It almost seems like many joined just to spite Elon Musk or to prove that "Threads is better than #Mastodon". However, they demonstrate a lack of clear understanding of either platform.
Overall, I felt disoriented, much more than when I first entered the Fediverse years ago. We'll see, but I didn't find anything particularly exciting at the moment.
About the "70 Millions users joined overnight" statement: all the (non European) Instagram users can just join #Threads with two taps. They could just have launched Threads as an #Instagram extension and...puff, more than one billion users subscribed in 10 seconds!
#SocialMedia #review #Meta #SocialNetworks #Hype