It's day one for Threads, Meta's new Twitter clone, and new users are signing up in impressively huge numbers already.
  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    3 年前

    It feels like for every small step taken towards a decentralised social network we get a giant leap back to centralised networks run by surveillance capitalist billionaires

    • animist@lemmy.oneEnglish
      223·
      3 年前

      21st century people have only ever known capitalist control, they can’t help it

    • fidodo@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      3 年前

      But picking an instance is so hard 😭

      This is why we can’t have nice things. People literally want to be told what to do.

      • Pastor Haggis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        But picking all instance is so hard

        I mean actually kinda yes. I’m pretty techy and I spent a few days trying to figure out which one I would use. Ultimately landed on .world because I didn’t want to do an interview. Other people might be turned away from that, but maybe it’s a good thing.

  • thoro@lemmy.mlEnglish
    52·
    3 年前

    I’ve been busy all day, but I’ve just seen through talking with others how threads is basically blowing up today and lots of our local Twitter accounts, companies, bigger celebrities/influencers and more are going to it and sharing their accounts.

    And it just makes me so fucking sad to see people embrace Facebook again when a decentralized, grassroots, non corporate alternative was already right there. It’s a lot of “liberal” people, too.

    • youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      3 年前

      It’s sad but understandable. One is the company that people already know and their favorite celebrity just announced their new account, the other is ‘wtf is fediverse and federation’?

  • HorseFD@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    3 年前

    It’s mostly better than twitter, in that it actually functions reasonably well, and it’s obviously considerably worse than Mastodon (especially compared to the Ivory app)

    • The biggest downside is the timeline seems to show a mixture of accounts you follow and other accounts, seemingly suggested accounts that it thinks you might want to follow. I can’t see any way to only see posts from accounts you follow.
    • The timeline isn’t chronological and I can’t see a way to make it chronological
    • You can’t edit posts
  • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 年前

    As long as I don’t have to interact with that instance I’m OK. I’d rather not ever federate with Meta though

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 年前

    Sooo … we’re just gonna take Zuck on his word here … does anyone know for sure how many people are on there?

    • HorseFD@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 年前

      I’m wonder if we’ll be able to get stats like this ourselves once they are federating with Mastodon instances.

  • Still@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    3 年前

    I downloaded it and it instantly wanted my age, so that was a fast delete, didn’t even get logged in