What everybody needs to realise is that Mark Zuckerberg cannot be fired and thus any movements need to be seen as his whims. I don't think he likes Threads. It was meant to be the next Twitter but it feels like visiting a luxury mall in Dallas and mostly just gets people angry at Adam Mosseri - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 95 days ago

What everybody needs to realise is that Mark Zuckerberg cannot be fired and thus any movements need to be seen as his whims. I don't think he likes Threads. It was meant to be the next Twitter but it feels like visiting a luxury mall in Dallas and mostly just gets people angry at Adam Mosseri

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At least as a bad business it probably didn’t cost as much as the metaverse

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crdwd.bsky.social•95 days ago

i contracted at meta when the metaverse was announced, best part was watching directors and managers flailing to interpret what zuck meant by 'the metaverse'. meetings with titles like 'brainstorming the metaverse' were nonstop; it was clear no one including zuck knew what he meant or wanted

touchingdoodles.com•95 days ago

No vision beyond scale at any cost

darthbluesky.bsky.social•95 days ago

😹

willkeats.bsky.social•95 days ago

still dumbfounded they let adam mosseri run it

edzitron.com•95 days ago

I dislike him so much I almost enjoy his stuff. A totally empty man who exhibits no emotions or opinions and appears to do nothing other than occasionally post a response to user complaints that amounts to "whatever the problem is we intend to make it worse."

willkeats.bsky.social•95 days ago

every time he appears in one of those videos he has some new shirt or accessory that just screams “vapid douchebag” it’s incredible

rockyhart.bsky.social•95 days ago

Makes sense why Threads is what it is.

edzitron.com•95 days ago

I am specifically thinking of the Galleria Mall in Dallas. This is exactly how Threads feels. If you've ever been you must agree

https://galleriadallas.com/

simon.batistoni.net•95 days ago

The common theme for me is the palpable feeling that I’m just meat for their machine; that I could not matter less as an individual in these spaces.

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Yeah that's exactly how both the Galleria and Threads feel

kernelleak.bsky.social•95 days ago

And soon after: Valley View Mall (with Zuck playing the role of the Rolling Giant...)

mignaccolo.bsky.social•95 days ago

Spot on … the original in Milano is way better

ameliaagain.bsky.social•95 days ago

lol-ing in Dallasite

jackcolbert.bsky.social•95 days ago

this is so real

boyishman.bsky.social•95 days ago

Full of bleach blondes and fake boobs?

linuxrebel.org•95 days ago

Sounds like the casino floor in Vegas

boyishman.bsky.social•95 days ago

Literally the same people...

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Please don't speak ill of the many customers of our fair town of Las Vegas. Come one come all.

edzitron.com•95 days ago

How dare you! The sound of our many slot machines is a deeply soothing one. The hollow echo of the Galleria Dallas is like that of a tomb

linuxrebel.org•95 days ago

Come on you got to admit that the casinos and bars in Vegas attract plastic filled objects, like the great garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. The slots the tables I like the plastic...

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Dallas is a breeding ground. Vegas is the big watering hole where all of America comes to slop up. Our beautiful loud casinos are here for America's pleasure

lawnchairmedia.bsky.social•95 days ago

I love 5 min away...It's a very nice place to return online purchases 👍
But often times, you can drive right past it and do it directly at the Post Office. 🇺🇸

blunderchief.blather.ing•95 days ago

You could have said anything in Dallas and I would have agreed.

ausflor.bsky.social•95 days ago

Absolutely right on

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Both Threads and the Galleria Dallas feel the same way: this is nice and clean, but why am I here? What choices brought me to this point? Were they good choices? Why are so many parts of this place empty? Oh god, why am I in Dallas (Threads is an Instagram product, Dallas is Instagram)

problematicotter.bsky.social•95 days ago

I want to argue with this but it's been like 10 years since I've been to the Galleria so

captainchaos.bsky.social•95 days ago

I've been to several malls including that one that stylize themselves as gallerias and without exception they totally suck

enjoyertimes.bsky.social•95 days ago

Try Josey Records next time you’ve got a long layover in Dallas. Just off 635/35 intersection. Largest vinyl record store in the country and easy to lose whole days just browsing the millions (not hyperbole) of records, CDs, tapes, etc.

mrstealyourmemes.bsky.social•95 days ago

The Galleria? I've been to the one in Houston back in 2012, which I assume is identical to Threads, which I have never been to.

maddigital.bsky.social•95 days ago

as someone who never signed up, i love the endless instagram notifications for "these people you know want you to join threads!". like hell they do lmao they set this account up, used it for 5 minutes before realizing it sucked, and never looked back

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•95 days ago

I remember it from its heyday, the late 80s during the oil boom. Back then it was always full, hard to find parking. But 'clean' isn't the right word - maybe sterile, characterless like the bland nouveau riche whites to whom it catered.

mattgregory.bsky.social•95 days ago

empty ice skating rink in the middle of it. you summarized it perfectly

animegirlfriend.bsky.social•95 days ago

hey man, we just got a uniqlo

kleinman.bsky.social•95 days ago

If you've ever been to the Oculus in NYC it gives you the same feeling

normcorerockwell.bsky.social•95 days ago

I can’t explain why this analogy makes sense but I know it makes sense.

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Yeah it's because it has the exact same vibe

normcorerockwell.bsky.social•95 days ago

Though to me, Threads feels more like one of those downtown-style shopping centers in the suburbs where you park in a massive garage and all the shops are on the fake main street

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ewwww. Thanks for dredging that memory up.

edzitron.com•95 days ago

Yeah that's exactly what I say when I get a threads popup on Instagram

maniccage.bsky.social•95 days ago

I am feeling a completely new feeling. It's some pukey combination of dread & schadenfreude.

pmbigger.bsky.social•95 days ago

I got forced into picking up a shift at the Starbucks in that mall around Xmas time in 2000. There was a woman with a fully melting toddler in interminable line. Eventually the woman behind them yelled 'are you going to shut that kid up or should I?'. So yeah, just like threads.

dude.computer•95 days ago

yeah exactly this. miserable

akarra.bsky.social•95 days ago

Well now I know too much about my own life. I liked pachiugo?

gregpak.net•95 days ago

omg

gregpak.net•95 days ago

but Ed the Galleria Mall has turtles so it is better than Threads imho

bornonagreenlight.bsky.social•95 days ago

That’s Northpark. Galleria has an ice skating rink.

gregpak.net•95 days ago

OMG YOU ARE CORRECT HA HA I STAND CORRECTED AND EMBARRASSED AS A DALLAS EX-PAT WHO STILL VISITS FREQUENTLY BUT APPARENTLY GETS HIS MALLS MIXED UP

gregpak.net•95 days ago

the Galleria is close to the Half Price Books, though, so it's got that going for it

shieldsup.bsky.social•95 days ago

Things To Do

Let’s Shop

padremiguel.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ft Worth — where the West begins. Dallas — where the East peters out.

midnightdorifto.bsky.social•95 days ago

this speaks to me *spiritually*

sypookus.bsky.social•95 days ago

As a high school kid, I climbed up to the top of the Dallas Galleria glass panels directly above the ice rink one night and laid there face down looking down to the rink several stories down.

I found that very useful.

jenbeee.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ok, the Galleria, yes. I was about to defend the honor of Northpark, which is far more interesting than Threads.

paulee-k.bsky.social•95 days ago

This is it. Mosseri cops all the flack and abuse from users but really he’s just a face and rarely calls any shots for threads. Zuck does all the damage in the background. If you don’t trust Zuck, you shouldn’t be anywhere near threads. He already turned facebook into the boomer version of Elon’s X.

jginsburg.bsky.social•95 days ago

Wasn't that a Dan Olson essay? "The metaverse is an empty mall"

egoartifex.com•95 days ago

What’s weird is not only is the Threads experience bad, it’s also making instagram worse. It made me suspend both apps.

aph757.bsky.social•95 days ago

100% - on top of them shoving AI prompts and gimmicks nobody asked for, you also have them shoehorning irrelevant threads in one’s feed… they make some maddening decisions over at Meta, an anti-human agenda!

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