Re:Threads, an Instagram App
by Robotbeat on Monday July 03, 2023 @09:52PM
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Every Twitter alternative seems to be worse somehow. I wouldn’t mind if Twitter died, I think it gives people brainworms, but I see comments like this and I just see it as wishful thinking.
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> but I see comments like this and I just see it as wishful thinking.
Usually with black/white motivations as to why they want it to die while disregarding the realities of social media markets and network effects. See: the countless threads about HN users deleting FB 6-7yrs ago. Meanwhile Meta is doing just fine.
Someone should make a chart of all the times HN claimed FB will die because [x] and overlay it on their stock price: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/meta