(Photo: what the dumb little app looks like on my iPad)

So…I’ve honestly been worried that threads is going to be successful and take away potential new users who might otherwise find their way to Lemmy/mastodon. Isn’t that why Zuck is doing this after all? To get their users hooked on their federated client and then steal their data and sell them ads?

I figured I’d give in and sign up today, make a little bit of trouble (talk down meta, talk up fediverse) and then 1 star the app and delete it. Sign up was easy and I see that I have around 30 follow requests from my Instagram friends. A lot of them have been posting……it looks like. Crap, I think. Meta might get away with this.

Well, there is no iPad app which is ridiculous…even TikTok has one. The iPhone app is ugly and basic. Looking closely at my friends accounts, it seems clear that most of them tried it, made a few posts (a week ago or more) or zero posts in some cases…and that’s it. The “feed” has one option and it serves you whatever the hell it wants…for me it was nothing but splashy bullshit from Entertainment Weekly, political pundits, lame memes and The Tonight Show. Completely devoid of anything meaningful or interesting at all. I had followed back 30 people and there were zero posts in my feed from any of them.

I’m so happy! It’s complete trash. I hope Zuckerberg is thoroughly embarrassed and the whole thing fails. 🎉Goodnight 😄

  • Max-PEnglish
    21•1 year ago

    Really goes to show it’s been rushed out to hell to compete with a dying Twitter before competitors like BlueSky can come in and pick up the users. Throw in some Mastodon compatibility as well to make sure to EEE it.

    It’s probably been in development less than a month.

    • @mysoulishomeOPEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      I guess we should just be thankful it was rushed and everyone who signed in saw that it was soulless bullshit and it’ll die…

      I really hope we can get people to start being skeptical about getting sucked in by these “new” social media platforms when they are bankrolled by megacorporations. It’s going to end badly…even if you like it today they are going to fuck us.

      • Max-PEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        Definitely agree. Like centralized BBSes back in the days, social media was a novel idea and it led to some platforms to become overly dominant as they were the first and only ones in the market. Then there’s been enough clones and the userbase fragmented enough that ultimately a standard protocol and interoperability just becomes necessary.

        Same with Reddit, as users flee to a whole bunch of platforms, it becomes evident that in the end, there’s going to be more and more demand for interoperability as nobody wants to sign up for 10 different places with the inevitable overlapping content.