I never thought that I'd see Rambo and Aqua in the same picture...
...anyway different people are showing Meta/Facebook the middle finger vs. joining Threads. The company renaming also did a good job to make people not track "Facebook arsehole!" with other of Meta's possessions.
It's not about supporting Threads, it's about destroying Twitter.
What’s sad is that the devs working at Meta really feel they are doing something great for the community not realizing this is just phase 1.
I think its because Zuck created FB and while we dont doubt he is evil, he is evil in his lane. Privacy invading social cancer has always been his product, Meta is the 2000s version of "big tobacco"
The "meme" of Zuck is a socially awkward robot, the meme of Elon is an attention starved diva who will do anything to try and stay relevant.
Some people dislike Zuck, some people FUCKING HATE Elon.
Alright, if no one else is gonna ask.
Sauce?
Accurate
I don’t have an ig account because I walked away from Facebook and and any other non-anonymous social media a long time ago and I just don’t want to get back in.
For me i can see the allure of threads for those that do have an ig account and that will naturally bring others in. I will never bother because I can get the same or better in terms of content without sacrificing things I value.
For those that do have an ig account, they’ve already given up all that data when they signed up for fb/ig so it was always going to have a good sized starting pool of content/users
The real question is if people stay or if it acts as a springboard to other parts of the fediverse. Surely a combination of sorts
At this point we're just rooting for which garbage fire burns faster. Right now I'm cheering for Twitter, I'll give Threads a year or so before I look forward to watching it crash and burn.
Threads is an Ok experience right now. No ads, for example, or so I've heard. However, eventually money needs to be made... and that's when things start going bad. Zuck said he'd monetize the platform at 1B users, which doesn't seem so far away.
It looks like a nice platform now, and that's probably the draw. I also wonder if this might encourage Twitter to make some actually good decisions to compete with Threads.