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Threads Is the Perfect Twitter Alternative, Just Not for You (blog.privacyguides.org)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ChatGPT kindly summarized it:

Elon Musk is challenging conventional business practices with a unique strategy for his tech ventures. Mark Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk's tactics, created Threads, a potential rival to Twitter. However, Threads' user experience is disappointing, as it lacks control over followers and displays a non-chronological timeline. Despite its flaws, Threads may succeed due to its appeal to brands and the AdTech industry for data collection and marketing purposes. While not user-friendly, it could still become profitable through data scraping and advertising.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Its a 500 word article...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why waste time read many word when few word do trick

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

@bartification @freddy Sometime words you no need use, but need need for read read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Word ok, link bad

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I won't read that many words.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And in my opinion, the ChatGPT summary is a pretty good condensation of those 500 words. There are some things that are said more than once, and some details that are interesting, but not crucial for having a discussion about the topic, particularly with a focus on privacy.

Sure, 500 words isn’t a big ask, but I think when 500 words really conveys 300 words worth of content, and easily boils down to more like 100, it is reasonable to choose to read 100. I enjoyed reading 500, but that doesn’t mean everyone should.

[/I took a lot more words than necessary, lol, it’s because I am a degenerate]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

i would say, yes, that is a good summary about the topic WITHOUT why the stuff turns out that way. For people wanting the "why" too i suggest reading the article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope , will not go on threads. Stick on my mastodon instance blocking all Facebook domains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is challenging conventional business practices with a unique strategy for his tech ventures

Lol. What exactly is he doing differently from what every other greedy corporate shareholder of any large tech monopoly has done?

Make promises he cant keep? He said he would open source Twitter code and he's done exact opposite.

Try to extort money out of users for basic features? Making people pay for Twitter blue to DM.

Prevent developers from making third party apps by forcing absurd rate limits?

Sounds just like any other money-hungry big tech CEO to me. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From the first two paragraphs of the article:

Silicon Valley could well be built on the principle of scrapping principles. Now Elon Musk, perhaps the ultimate tech bro, is shredding another well-regarded convention with an original business strategy.

Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire is doing the opposite. The cyber-trucker is trying his best to cull his customer base. Instead of finding gaps in the market, Musk is helping to create them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how's that not a fucking ad

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you read the article? Excerpts include:

Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire is doing the opposite. The cyber-trucker is trying his best to cull his customer base.

Threads is what would happen if Twitter and Instagram made out in a bowling alley. It's all their worst parts combined - but it may well succeed. Rocket-man Musk's changes to Twitter have not exactly made it 'brand friendly'. Threads, meanwhile, is shaping up to be a paradise for in-your-face brands - and the AdTech industry would love for you to join them

and

Threads' naffness won't stop its success. It's data-scraping fluffily dressed up as substandard corporate twaddle. It's a cringe-inducing privacy invasion. It's not meant for users, but that doesn't really matter: you're not a user, you're a product.

It's describing Threads as a product not for users, but advertisers. The perfect brand-friendly non-place for companies to stick their marketing crap. That doesn't really come across as a ringing endorsement to me.

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

the post was deleted about 5 sec after i wrote it but it seem it didn't got deleted in other istances

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

Yeah, federated network things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because ads are made by a company in order for that company to sell a product that they own. This an independent article about a product so that consumer can learn about said product. You can tell that it's not an ad by reading more than the headline.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You can tell that it's not an ad by reading more than the headline.

Big ask for the average ~~reddit~~ Lemmy user.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg No thanks lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eventually Threads will be able to sort chronologically and will be able to filter just on who the user follows. It'll be IG without pictures in essence, and people will love it. Not my cup of tea (although I use IG occasionally to follow specific accounts) but bully for them. I like the idea of Twitter becoming less and less relevant at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Aren’t pictures the point of Instagram, though? I don’t use Instagram, but I would not expect people to like something that is basically a picture sharing service without the pictures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's burn those data centers down.

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