how’s that not a fucking ad
Threads Is the Perfect Twitter Alternative, Just Not for You
Submitted 11 months ago by freddy@lemmy.one to privacyguides@lemmy.one
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sol@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
kbity@kbin.social 11 months ago
Did you read the article? Excerpts include:
Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire is doing the opposite. The cyber-trucker is trying his best to cull his customer base.
Threads is what would happen if Twitter and Instagram made out in a bowling alley. It's all their worst parts combined - but it may well succeed. Rocket-man Musk's changes to Twitter have not exactly made it 'brand friendly'. Threads, meanwhile, is shaping up to be a paradise for in-your-face brands - and the AdTech industry would love for you to join them
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Threads' naffness won't stop its success. It's data-scraping fluffily dressed up as substandard corporate twaddle. It's a cringe-inducing privacy invasion. It's not meant for users, but that doesn't really matter: you're not a user, you're a product.
It's describing Threads as a product not for users, but advertisers. The perfect brand-friendly non-place for companies to stick their marketing crap. That doesn't really come across as a ringing endorsement to me.
sol@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
the post was deleted about 5 sec after i wrote it but it seem it didn’t got deleted in other istances
Sebo@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg No thanks lol
shani66@burggit.moe 11 months ago
Yeah I’m totally out. I don’t see how anyone is getting excited for anything out of Facebook.
Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 11 months ago
Eventually Threads will be able to sort chronologically and will be able to filter just on who the user follows. It'll be IG without pictures in essence, and people will love it. Not my cup of tea (although I use IG occasionally fto follow specific accounts) but bully for them. I like the idea of Twitter becoming less and less relevant at the very least.
altair222@beehaw.org 11 months ago
idk, the same fascists and nazis of twitter found their home in threads as well. its just fire on fire.
Bozicus@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Aren’t pictures the point of Instagram, though? I don’t use Instagram, but I would not expect people to like something that is basically a picture sharing service without the pictures.
NECOdes@burggit.moe 11 months ago
it’s good to have it IMO, Twitter users can migrate to Thread so the average IQ of both platform increases a bit
franzK@feddit.de 11 months ago
We could just look for an appropriate date where we all have time and burn all those data centers down.
PublicLewdness@burggit.moe 11 months ago
I don’t use software made by the likes of Meta. I have plenty of better Twitter alternatives that I trust more.
Gorroth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ChatGPT kindly summarized it:
Elon Musk is challenging conventional business practices with a unique strategy for his tech ventures. Mark Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk’s tactics, created Threads, a potential rival to Twitter. However, Threads’ user experience is disappointing, as it lacks control over followers and displays a non-chronological timeline. Despite its flaws, Threads may succeed due to its appeal to brands and the AdTech industry for data collection and marketing purposes. While not user-friendly, it could still become profitable through data scraping and advertising.
freddy@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Its a 500 word article…
bartification@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why waste time read many word when few word do trick
Hank@kbin.social 11 months ago
I won't read that many words.
Bozicus@lemmy.one 11 months ago
And in my opinion, the ChatGPT summary is a pretty good condensation of those 500 words. There are some things that are said more than once, and some details that are interesting, but not crucial for having a discussion about the topic , particularly with a focus on privacy.
Sure, 500 words isn’t a big ask, but I think when 500 words really conveys 300 words worth of content, and easily boils down to more like 100, it is reasonable to choose to read 100. I enjoyed reading 500, but that doesn’t mean everyone ought to.
Little8Lost@feddit.de 11 months ago
i would say, yes, that is a good summary about the topic WITHOUT why the stuff turns out that way. For people wanting the “why” too i suggest reading the article
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Nope , will not go on threads. Stick on my mastodon instance blocking all Facebook domains.
mark@programming.dev 11 months ago
Lol. What exactly is he doing differently from what every other greedy corporate shareholder of any large tech monopoly has done?
Make promises he cant keep? He said he would open source Twitter code and he’s done exact opposite.
Try to extort money out of users for basic features? Making people pay for Twitter blue to DM.
Prevent developers from making third party apps by forcing absurd rate limits?
Sounds just like any other money-hungry big tech CEO to me. 🤷♂️
freddy@lemmy.one 11 months ago
From the first two paragraphs of the article: