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> Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email.

Fuck your shitty goals.



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> My verdict: Threads sucks shit. It has no purpose. It is for no one

wrong. it has a purpose, and it serves someone, just not its users.

they're looking for a way to shove more advertisement and other sorts of manipulation right at you; after all, that is their product.


> something else will come along and eat their lunch

It already happened.

Whilst Bluesy was requiring invites, Threads launched and now has the highest DAUs of all of the text social networks.


This sounds exciting

“ We’re working on Threads soon being compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe can shape the future of the internet”


>Threads app is made

Horribly.


> You don't like threads?

I would love them if it was actually noticeable when someone else creates a thread to which i'm supposed to contribute...


> I want threads.

Anyone has usable threads yet? For the life of me I can't follow Slack threads.


threaded messaging, man. threaded messaging. ffs.

> Sure, threads are a global resource too, but much of the time you can get away with pretending that they're not and create them on demand.

I think you would love Trio and applying the idea to threads.


> Can’t seem to load threads

Threads should never have been a thing, so maybe people now start writing articles instead on their own platform.


> threads has been moving at a glacial pace and I'm way out ahead of any thing they've indicated even thinking about

I'm not so certain that's an accurate statement. Threads launched only 5 months ago, and they've made some fairly large progress on things users have requested the most, and there's a number of things that are currently being tested in certain parts of the world (ex: trends).

It'll be interesting to see if they can continue that pace into the new year.

Personally, I just want to see a lists and bookmarks feature, which they've confirmed is in the works.


> Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram

Instagram can be used in a desktop browser just fine.


> If we’re counting people using a feature of an account they already as “growing,”

We're not, that's not how Threads works.


> When you start new thread, you don’t just start it by filling To: and Subject:, you also have to put it to some stream.

And right there, is why it won't catch on.


He’s talking of threads as in “email threads”, not “process threads” - i.e. indentation and grouping of messages and replies.

>Threads is an online social media and social networking service operated by Meta Platforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)

There were quite a few posts "Threads is dead" here (for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567876), so it's interesting to look at some relatively objective data.


> I tried out Threads during its initial rollout…

FWIW, the experience is completely different than it was during the gold rush. Even the algorithmic feed is surprisingly good once you mute a few morons.


> Well Threads currently doesn’t even have a chronological, non-algo feed I can look at, whereas on bluesky you can have any number of feeds with whatever algo/logic you want.

None of that matters if the people you follow are on Threads but aren’t on Bluesky. And if the people you follow can’t get on Bluesky even if they wanted to, then off to Threads they will go and so everybody else will follow.


uh, threads is mastodon.

Hopeful? Didn't the Threads announcement literally state they were going to federate with Mastodon?

> Soon, we are planning to make Threads compatible with ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body responsible for the open standards that power the modern web. This would make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress

> We’re committed to giving you more control over your audience on Threads – our plan is to work with ActivityPub to provide you the option to stop using Threads and transfer your content to another service

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/introducing-threads-new-ap...

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