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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by worrycue on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:32PM (#36581495)
They are rate limiting the viewing of tweets now. No way they have the capacity to handle Reddit’s content.

Maybe Google can try replicating Reddit in YouTube - it would just be serving text instead of video; discovery would be via their recommendation algorithm, i.e. no subreddits. Frankly, they can kind of already do this, you can post community messages on YouTube. They just need to tweak the algorithm to recommend such messages.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by troupo on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:12AM (#36582837)
> Maybe Google can try replicating Reddit in YouTube

They can't. Google as an organization just doesn't understand social networking.

They've had comments and forums (community?) for ages. Do you know how to engage in that community? Do you know how to even track your own comments? Etc.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by worrycue on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:35AM (#36582993)
> Do you know how to even track your own comments?

On YouTube actually yes, it’s in “History”. :P

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by troupo on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:46AM (#36583069)
Not in the app :)

And on the web IIRC it doesn't show any replies to your comments. And if you click on your comment, there's a 50/50 chance Youtube will not show it to you under the video :)

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