#Meta threads

[killrisma]

meta is trying to lure the twitter refugees over to threads with their lack of bots and straight forward UI, BUT do they announce the news through a meme template from the hit cw show, supernatural? that’s what I thought

[aberration13]

I know people are trying to find a replacement for twitter, but please do not switch to facebook's knockoff "threads"

Much better to use mastadon or something like that which is open source and non profit so it won't ever sell your info to anyone and doesn't serve ads that track you constantly.

Added benefit is no content algorithm to try and hijack your your dopamine receptors or to censor/manipulate what information people see and what goes viral. It's also not run to suit an investment agenda so there is a massively lower chance that it will suddenly flop due to enshittification like all the corporate social media platforms do eventually and all the digital social infrastructure won't just disappear overnight some day.

[geezerwench]

I saw this on Counter Social.

If you sign up for Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter alternative, it is connected to Instagram. If you decide you don't like Threads, you cannot delete it unless you delete your Instagram account.

[rraaarr]

We never get confirmation the book of life actually erases ppl do we? We never actually see it used, and in fact Crowley's first reaction is that extreme sanctions are made up. We only assume it is real bc Crowley acts like it is. But, honestly, Crowley doesnt Know and is still unsure. Crowley would just rather drink holy water than risk Aziraphale, so he takes the risk seriously.

But that doesn't mean it wotks as advertised. And Metatron stops the Archangels before they can use it on Aziraphale. Maybe Metatron is using this concept to keep Angels in line?

And who knows, maybe the Book of Life does something else, something that if everyone knew would cause problems to the end of world plans.

Although what Really gets me, is that in the book there where themes of just generally being anti cold war (two opposing sides willing tondestroy the world to prove who is better) and while i cannot figure out what it means, there is just something Political about the phrase extreme sanctions that makes me think whatever the Book of Life does (and it may do the extreme sanctions thing!) Ties into this political theme.

Idek I have way more questions than answers

[obaewankenope]

Bc I've already put it up on threads and want validation in every place I social

[ID: meme of the scene from Jurassic Park of Nedry & Dodson at beachside cafe. Nedry is pointing at Dodson saying "tweets! we've got tweets here!" with a caption of "threads" on Nedry's body. The second image follows up with "see, no body cares"]

[jesscarioflips7]

New video on youtube!

[mylionheart2]

[thegreatbacon]

The Coming Discourse Vacuum

Food for thought in a post-Twitter world

I originally published this piece 2022-11-18 on my blog, but then forgot to share lol. Thought it was relevant again with the Twitter/Reddit/Bluesky/Threads talk this past month.

There is no doubt that Twitter is collapsing. Millions of bytes have flown over the last few weeks describing the chaos both on the platform and in the private domain of its offices. Advertisers have pulled out, poorly thought out technical decisions have been made, hastily designed products have shipped, the majority of staff have either been fired or walked out the door, and the new owner and CEO is publicly melting down ON the platform for all the world to see. Some real grade A content if you will. The Adam McKay movie is writing itself. Yet as dumb as the whole saga is, it feels like there’s clearly something else at stake here, some sort of loss being felt. As much of a carnival as Twitter has always been, there is social value in it.

The widespread recording and reporting of police brutality in communities leading to the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests of 2020 likely couldn’t have occurred without it. Last year when a wildfire broke out in the north suburbs of Denver, I used the platform to get almost real-time info and pass it on to friends and family living close to the disaster.

It’s the place to go for breaking & front page news. To hear the latest japes and gossip. It’s one of the town squares of the internet. And now it’s on fire while a lone, pathetic, billionaire is trying to rip it apart and sell it for scrap after buying it on a whim.

So, what’s next?

Some people are starting to look for the future in newer, less established spaces. But what if before our society immediately moves on to the next big thing, we take a step back to dream of a green field. If we could do it all over again, what should it look like?

To start with let’s talk about the elephant in the room, Mastodon, which is one of the new things that people have been migrating towards. Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, a collection of open source tools and platforms that prize decentralized architecture first and foremost. This means allowing anyone to host their own instance of a server and then connecting it to other servers in a federated model to gain network effects.

So instead of just one single giant ship plying the shitposting seas, it’s a bunch of rafts lashed together. If you don’t like how things are going, you can untie your raft and set off on your own. Or that’s the idea anyway.

But in my experience I’ve found the whole system unintuitive and overwhelming despite the fact that I write software for a living. Where am I supposed to make an account? How do I make sure I’m in the same network as the funny people I was following on Twitter? Does anyone in this federation even live in my state?

The barrier to entry is too high and the core architecture of Fediverse software fragments the new social network right out of the gate, undermining the very reason Twitter was useful in the first place. The replacement has to be centralized, it has to be the same place everyone agrees to show up. That’s how town squares work.

Another consideration for this future digital town square should be democratic controls baked into it from the start. The goal here is to keep any one particular petulant owner from taking control of the whole thing. This is ostensibly the purpose of federation in Mastodon, but I’m talking about even lower level controls. Elected moderators to patrol the space and ways to debate and decide the rules that govern the space. Baked in polls for voting on anything from names to new channels to modifying community guidelines. Focus on democratically controlling a single instance from within its own framework before jumping straight to federation.

Lastly, just like how a good tax base helps keep public places clean and maintained, this theoretical future platform would need some mechanism for collecting monetary support from its users, instead of an ad driven model. Ad driven platforms will always be forced to sacrifice the user experience for driving advertiser metrics.Instead let's talk about things like up-front registration fees or monthly supporter tiers, cosmetic items or badges for purchase, and publicly published operational budgets so users know how much they need to open their wallets. We could even dream of an honest to god new state-run utility that can actually levy taxes to manage and operate the platform!

As I’m writing this piece, one of the top trends on Twitter is literally #RIPTwitter. Even if the website technically lives on past tonight, it’s clear that it has lost the trust and confidence of its community, the lifeblood of any social media platform. So as we stagger out of this burning square, we should all take a moment to unplug, touch some grass, talk to our friends and family around our kitchen tables, and take a deep breath. In that moment of quiet, let’s dream about something better, before we go back to looking for something to fill the vacuum.

[clown-around-and-find-out]

fuck twitter fuck youtube fuck reddit fuck threads fuck tiktok fuck all of it. lets all use the spongebuddy mania forums

[violacares]

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Hello guys!!

The past days have been incredible with all of your support and love, I feel so glad and grateful to be a part of this community. I love you all for helping me on this journey to help people and myself to have better mental health and peace.

I'm happy to announce that I'm now on threads and that you can follow me there. Kindly follow and support!!

You can follow me here!!

Lots of love, Viola 🐻💜

[existennialmemes]

The #1 reason I haven't signed up for Threads, is because the screenshot format is hideous.

Call me when they get serious about the

✨ Aesthetic ✨

[ifellinthelake]

tumblr but u literally cant even search posts that the algorithm doesnt push out

exactlyyyyy

[chaossurvives]

Okay I downloaded Threads and I think I hate it. Like my feed is literally just suggested accounts but with next to no connection to the accounts I do follow. So it’s just random shit. Does anyone know how to turn that off because I’ve googled it and the answer has done fuck all.

[minceyfresh]

Dayumn, that lack of privacy though. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised at all, but still.

[edsrosetattoo]

This is the best idea in the history of film.

[msilverstar]

Nice summary, I'm really liking Mastodon as a Twitter replacement partly because I always used the chronological friends list anyway. HMU if anyone wants help with it.

Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?

Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.

There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.

Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want") ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!

It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics. Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!