Article Update: In less than 2 days, #Threads somehow gets even worse!

https://rentsuru.medium.com/its-been-5-minutes-and-instagram-s-threads-already-sucks-f10d507807ed

My feed is now all those interesting people, places, & publications that I followed on #Instagram over the years reacting & replying to celebrities & brands like Dunkin Donuts and fucking Paris Hilton.

Or worse, seeing celebrities & brands replying to each other.

Awesome. 😬

#meta #facebook #mastodon #fediverse #twitter #twittermigration @fediverse

  • RxBrad@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    So… The Twitter replacement is getting used like Twitter, by people (and brands) who bailed from Twitter?

    Surprised face.

    • Scew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Don’t forget the VERY innovative and generous 500 character limit they’re enforcing. Wow. So much characters.

      • RxBrad@lemmy.world
        71·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the forced algorithm is the worst.

        Here’s my extremely unpopular opinion… Because they’re eventually Fediverse’ing, if you actually wanted to follow some of those brands/celebrities/orgs/etc, you could do so with a non-Threads Mastodon client and completely excise The Algorithm.

        But, let’s just defederate instead, I guess, and remove that option.

        • kobra@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 year ago

          I think a lot of people feel similarly, we’re just exhausted from all the pearl clutching in the fediverse.

          I think it’s cool they’re federating. I’m excited to see some of that mainstream content without giving up so much of my personal info/data.

          I’m also excited that there will be defederated places to go to if I don’t want to see/interact with the Meta crowd.

          • RxBrad@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Mas.to has already planted their flag in the “we’re blocking anything Meta” camp. So now I get to jump through the hoops to migrate to a different server.

            I even tried to spin up my own server last night. Unfortunately, I failed. Setting up Mastodon in Docker Compose + Portainer isn’t nearly as easy as other services.