I really wanted to like Threads… But the actual experience didn’t make me want to open the app in the way Twitter once did.
Threads throttled immediacy, reach, and engagement so much, the platform felt like a more boring text-based Instagram to me. It lacked the conversation depth.
Threads throttled immediacy, reach, and engagement so much, the platform felt like a more boring text-based Instagram to me. It lacked the conversation depth.
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The worst aspect of Threads was the repetition of everything, start scrolling and see the same posts, same replies, etc.
That said, we really need an edit button for posts here.
I’ve followed nearly 500 accounts over there, most of which I would never see.
Because every time I interacted with some account, I would get served their content with priority - which I would then engage with (again). 1/
And even if I used the Following tab, who has the time to scroll through it for 10 hours straight just to hopefully bump into less active follows?
So my engagement bubble shrunk significantly. 2/
I’m looking forward to seeing more of ALL my follows’ content here on Bluesky with the help of my lists 🥳
Every time the algorithm runs it subtly increases the bias towards serving up more of the same.
1/
People are served a narrowing set of material. Their interactions are therefore more narrow as well. As a result, the algorithm has a narrower and narrower set of reference data to draw from.
There is a bit of an art to getting the mix right.
The engineers at Twitter Pre-Elon put a lot of time, thought and work into the topic as both a strategic and tech question.
EXACTLY