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While Threads-related headlines have focused on its big traffic drops, Meta's CEO says its Twitter alternative is a 'compelling long-term opportunity.'

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent 88 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Actually, everything Meta is terrible.

Fuck off Mark.

[–] Boozilla 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Zuckerberg is a POS. Folks are only talking about this because X/Twitter is such a dumpster fire, not because Threads is good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's sad is that people aren't talking about Mastodon nearly as much as they are talking about Threads and X. It just doesn't seem to get much publicity outside of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

well, why would people who use Fediverse options talk about using those options on non-Fediverse platforms? Other than the occasional "hey I use Mastodon and it's great." Not the kind of thing you'd talk about all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can understand why people wouldn't specifically talk about the fediverse on other sites. It just seems like there is a lot of coverage of X and Meta in the news, but there doesn't seem to have been even a passing mention of fediverse sites in most of what I've seen. I guess the more established social media sites are still a lot more significant than fediverse alternatives though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

There is one undeniable non-terribleness in Threads - it is not Xitter.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Yep, apart from Oculus. Makes sim racing 🤌for the money, I haven't looked at FB for a decade. Awful.

[–] Jackthelad 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Strong "my mum says I'm handsome" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Southern Italy there's a saying that goes like "every cockroach is beautiful to its mother" which perfectly summarizes the idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In Egypt it's"Every monkey is a gazelle to its own mother"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

We're neighbours after all... TIL something new, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what’s the connection between monkeys and gazelles that makes this make sense?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gazelles are more aesthetically pleasing than monkeys. That's it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

A remainder everyone with a Instagram account that clicked on the @ logo counts as an active user

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] tb_ 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to LA Noire

[–] tb_ 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm well aware, but in this context it gets a bit of double meaning

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Press mastodon to doubt

[–] ekZepp 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean. Until now I thought that Threads was a shitty copy of a shittier dying social, but now that his actual owner said otherwise i have to belive him, right?

[–] RememberTheApollo 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] warmaster 6 points 10 months ago

Always has been.

[–] kaitco 18 points 10 months ago

“Great” in the way that Metaverse was great, or this the real sort of great, as in “free beer” great?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

99.5 million of whom are bots

[–] LEDZeppelin 6 points 10 months ago

Sure Jan. Now go fuck yourself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Not everything has to have a billion user

Let's see if they can accept it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it weird that I think of an ouroboros every time I see the Threads logo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago