The fact that anyone who matters still uses that site just highlights abject failure of other companies to produce a satisfactory replacement. They’ve had years. With all their money and experience with social media, how has Meta failed to make Threads comparable to the old Twitter?
is it really that all the alternatives are worse than twitter? i never used twitter but mastodon/miskey seem pretty feature rich, especially with the right client. i assumed that the reason so many people did not switch is network effect and unwillingness to change habits
That is indeed the case. If you’re considering Mastodon try Wafrn. Its an open source social network that interacts with all Mastodon peeps like normal as well as bridging to and from Bluesky if you want. So you can interact with BSky and Fediverse accounts all from one place. Good shit.
Plus its one of the few social media platforms (even on the Fediverse) that has a STRICT no AI policy because fuck that shit.
precision calibrated to be juuuuust decentralized enough that you have to begrudgingly admit that it is technically decentralized, but not enough that it actually matters in any practical manner.
Market pressures are very different than they were when social media first took off. People want to be where their friends already are now. Back then, they would bring their friends to platforms.
The fact that anyone who matters still uses that site just highlights abject failure of other companies to produce a satisfactory replacement. They’ve had years. With all their money and experience with social media, how has Meta failed to make Threads comparable to the old Twitter?
Meta and X are predatory, they buy up the start ups and close them so no one will ever compete.
is it really that all the alternatives are worse than twitter? i never used twitter but mastodon/miskey seem pretty feature rich, especially with the right client. i assumed that the reason so many people did not switch is network effect and unwillingness to change habits
That is indeed the case. If you’re considering Mastodon try Wafrn. Its an open source social network that interacts with all Mastodon peeps like normal as well as bridging to and from Bluesky if you want. So you can interact with BSky and Fediverse accounts all from one place. Good shit.
Plus its one of the few social media platforms (even on the Fediverse) that has a STRICT no AI policy because fuck that shit.
Change habits? In this economy?
And bluesky, don’t forget about New Twitter, crypto-funded twitter
precision calibrated to be juuuuust decentralized enough that you have to begrudgingly admit that it is technically decentralized, but not enough that it actually matters in any practical manner.
I’ve heard that for people who used Twitter as a news feed, Threads’ and Buesky’s algorithms just aren’t as good.
I’m sure inertia also has a lot to do with it, as you said.
I used it for that
Are Threads or Bluesky as good as the old Twitter for this?
Market pressures are very different than they were when social media first took off. People want to be where their friends already are now. Back then, they would bring their friends to platforms.
Friends?