The article points out that Threads is now desperately trying to copy Bluesky by bringing in custom feeds. But the throttling of news, politics, foreign affairs to avoid “controversy” and the fact you can’t get real-time updates kills it for me.
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I tried it early doors, but it was just big brands asking you what your favourite sandwich was so I give up pretty quickly. Sounds like it hasn't improved any.
Never liked Threads and how it connected to Instagram. In fact just deactivated my account on it because I never used it. Still have an Instagram account albeit dormant.
I'm not sure what is wrong with it exactly but my posting has always felt like it is heading into a void. Never managed to accumulate any followers after the initial rush. 1.2k only. Some people clearly did manage it. Completely useless except for keeping touch with what it feels like.
You might have got lumped in with the current affairs ban so the algorithm won’t show your stuff to others. It also helps if you ported thousands of followers over from IG.
I've personally found Threads useless. I don't know what's "under the hood" with it, but I couldn't effectively curate my feed so I quickly gave up on it.
Quite. And then there is (to me) the complete mystery of why some posts get 10,000 likes and requisite 1,000's of comments and others get 3. Like a video game with too steep a learning curve, I quickly lost interest.
The nitwits there crow about how they're "winning" because they have many more users. What they have failed to appreciate is that the Threads users came from an existing base (Facebook/Instagram) whereas Bluesky has had a chance to build up both users and functionality 1/2
The Threads API is unusable and support is non existent (I've tried!) and the whole thing was released prematurely to capitalise minutes n X's woes at the time.
The problem for me is the Zuck algorithm, Facebook is pointless no posts from friends just constant suggestions of pages I might like, same with Instagram, yesterday it was posts from 2 weeks ago, today it’s posts from 3 days ago. Just want a feed in chronological order which he refuses to provide.
Meta’s Adam Mosseri said the whole point of FB/IG/Threads was to connect brands - however you want to define that - with fans, which is where the monetisation lies.
Yes I do remember that being said, I guess I prefer contact with people rather than brands so Threads was never going to work for me. I don’t think custom feeds will entice any one over but it might keep some of their new users from leaving.
Qualifier to my statement:
I know nothing about tech.
I do experience things though.
Meta's VR stuff is junk, practically unusable.
Facebook is junk.
I barely use Insta, but won't give that account up, just to have a Threads account.
The luck with fb aside, Zuckerberg seems REALLY bad at this.
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He just copycats features!
i obvi don’t use any of his products, esp cuz TERRIBLE FOR PRIVACY & data harvesting!
It’s cute how much he adores his wife tho, a SMART woman & NOT some STUPID Young PRETTY Model like the other 💻GEEKS
Some nice people.
But also porn accounts, bots, Insta crap, hardly any moderation - & I didn’t like the “opt in” to politics stuff
I know nothing about tech.
I do experience things though.
Meta's VR stuff is junk, practically unusable.
Facebook is junk.
I barely use Insta, but won't give that account up, just to have a Threads account.
The luck with fb aside, Zuckerberg seems REALLY bad at this.