(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 😄