https://gizmodo.com/threads-is-not-trying-to-be-the-old-twitter-1850922312
As Israel-Hamas misinformation floods X, Meta rejects calls to promote news content on Threads. Zuckerberg doesn't need to replace Twitter, he just has to destroy it.
Threads? I completely forgot about Threads because this is the first time I've seen news about it since the week it launched. And I doom scroll Lemmy Everything every night.
I've never heard of the expression "doom scroll"! It's awesome! With your permission, I'll start using it.
I also doom scroll Lemmy every night (which is bad, since I should sleep, but good because I stopped going to Reddit)
Where were you doing COVID? That was when the phrase really was at its peak, as everyone was doing that to keep up with the news.
I was lucky enough to be working regularly during covid, but I didn't say I've never doom scrolled!
I just never heard the expression on Reddit (which is where I was at the time when wasting... I mean, investing my free time) :)
Btw, is there a Lemmy app where you can disable infinite scrolling / set to 50 items per page or so?
It keeps getting bumps in adoption every time Musk does something stupid. So, weekly or so.
Honestly it's kind of a chill service. If it wasn't controlled by Meta, I'd be more active there. As it is, Mastodon is my jam.
The problem is that the painfully earnest people went to Mastodon, the funny people went to BlueSky, the celebs went to Threads, and the mid-tier YouTubers and Streamers and Podcasters who have to be Internet Famous every damned day or they don't get to eat stayed on Twitter.
Personally I'm pulling for Mastodon because I'm a painfully earnest person.
If there was only some way for people on different microblog websites to talk to each other...
Maybe some kind of open, decentralized protocol?
If only. Some sort of text with added extra, like hypertext, and it could be used as a transport protocol. One can dream.
They want a social network designed in a way that single company have all control that would be abused after gaining enough users and advertisers?
Trust me, we'll do the exact same thing again, having learned nothing and with the same exact person on top. Literally the same exact thing that enabled all the fascists some months ago.
It's going to be great this time around!!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The detritus at X quickly bubbled over to the rest of the internet — some of it promoted by Elon Musk himself — to the point that the European Union threatened to ban the app over the Israel-Hamas misinformation problem.
Last month, for example, the Washington Post reported that Threads had blocked users from searching for a variety of terms related to the news, including “Covid.”
The company made a number of desperate changes across its family of apps over the last year or so to try and make users have a more pleasant experience online, tamping down news among them.
Since then, Twitter never approached Facebook or Instagram’s numbers, but in terms of cultural relevance, it’s always been one of Zuck’s only real social media competitors
Today, the prevailing model comes from TikTok, a platform that looks more like TV, with content made by people you’re only connected to as a fan or consumer.
Bluesky and Mastodon, the hippest Twitter replacements, are happy to embrace news, but they’re comparatively tiny platforms, and the fun comes from the network effects of a large user base.
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What will they thread next to mastodon mastodon is the old Twitter, people were brainwashed by these two stinkers
Not to overly focus on aesthetics, but maybe Zuckerberg could take a few minutes away from his daily groping of paid-friends, and instead work with an acting coach to develop a look for photos that isn’t best described as Robot Rictus.