This is a great article about where newer social media networks like Bluesky and Threads fit into the existing ecosystem and it honestly mirrors a lot of how I feel about the current state of things, too. I still like Mastodon for a niche kind of community, and I’m committed to federating my posts there, but Bluesky really has become the place that feels like it “has the juice”.
As far as Threads goes, it is, always has been, and always will be garbage, but Koebler puts that feeling into words in a better way than I could:
Threads still feels to me like a gas leak social media network with a busted algorithm that over indexes on extremely annoying middle managers in Silicon Valley who dogpile on anyone who thinks that maybe social media network that suppresses links and political content, has horrible and uneven content moderation, and is owned by the same company that is paying an army of posters in developing nations to spam their flagship platform with busted AI is maybe not the platform to bet on. It is also—sorry—full of people who think Threads is perfectly fine and do not want to do even the tiniest bit of work to take a microscopic bit of power away from a company that has dominated global social media to disastrous outcomes for 20 years, and who cannot be bothered to do the bare minimum amount of introspection or reading to understand why a viable platform not owned by Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk might be something worth building toward.
The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
Or: Why Threads is not it.
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