Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by gpm on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:00PM
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Does instagram give you the right social graph for a twitter replacement though? It seems to me that you want to follow pretty different kinds of people on different forms of social media.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by lxgr on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:11PM
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It sure beats having to bootstrap one, would be my hunch.
Even just having a few people automatically followed can make a difference, even if most people diverge quickly after joining.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by justusthane on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:48PM
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Hmm, not for me. I’m a pretty casual IG user, but I am following 500+ accounts, all of which I enjoy. My first experience with Threads (despite importing my IG profile) was a feed full of accounts I had never heard of before, and almost nothing from the accounts I follow. Granted, that’s probably because the accounts I follow weren’t posting Threads yet, but but even now things haven’t changed much in that regard.
Additionally, 90+% of my Threads feed is photos, so, like, what’s the point?
I’ve opened it a couple of times and scrolled for maybe 30 seconds and lost interest.
I’m sure if I put a little effort into it I could find more interesting accounts to follow, but at least in my experience the “bootstrapping” hasn’t really worked.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
by monetus on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:04PM
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> I’m sure if I put a little effort into it I could find more interesting accounts to follow
Plenty of good developer-focused content now, and they implemented a following-only feed. Worth having, for me so far.