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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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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Actually, everything Meta is terrible.

Fuck off Mark.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Luisp 49 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to LA Noire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Press mastodon to doubt

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

99.5 million of whom are bots

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Not everything has to have a billion user

Let's see if they can accept it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sure Jan. Now go fuck yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

We all know them numbers are inflated, whats the number of daily active users not visiting Threads via FB activity?