I’ll never understand this style of social media. Facebook I hate, but kind of get, hearing from people you know. Reddit, was just a big message board. But twitter and its copy cats have zero appeal to me. Following people is just a creepy concept for me.
Twitter started out just following people you know, then famous people got into the mix, then you got to cuss out the POTUS, then Elon bought it and it tanked.
Zuck seems to think that Twitter is just a Facebook feed of famous people when no, your friends were there too.
I feel like that’s how Twitter is, at least that’s what I remember from years ago when I tried it, didn’t recognize anyone there and just walked away. I don’t mind seeing strangers sometimes when I’m bored with my normal feed and want to see something new, but it seemed to be the default behavior for me and I didn’t care to learn how to fix it.
The saying used to be Facebook is full of friends who should be strangers and twitter is full of strangers that should be friends but they not fucking suck now
It’s so bad over there. Might be the worst case of quantity over quality. It’s just stuffed full of brands trying to make themselves relevant and influencers posting engagement bait. I’m not even exaggerating, 100% of my feed is that.
There’s nothing of worth there other than sheer volume.
And why would anyone be the least bit surprised? Copy paste facebook and all of its very genuine issues. It’s not a social platform, it’s an advertising platform.
I’m not surprised in the slightest, but I’ve seen lots of posts saying how diverse it is over there, and how vibrant, and that it’s more like old Twitter.
And yeah, it’s brands posting stale memes and old Twitter personalities fighting for their lives, so I guess it is like old Twitter.
Mastodon has been a better alternative to reddit for me than Lemmy has so far tbh, except it’s not as interactive with other people I less you chase followers. But the niche communities have more activity over there than here so far.
Don’t get me started on just how much of a clone Mastodon is, it’s like they really wanted to be behind on features. Meanwhile there’s other worthy platforms like Akkoma and Misskey that add some really nice features.
It is different, it only has the algorithmic feed instead of the optional “only people you follow in algorithmic order” from Twitter. (And RIP the old no algorithm, only chronological order from tweetdeck in 30 days)
You can’t delete a thread account that is created without also deleting Instagram account. Someone reported seeing that they were following people that didn’t have threads accounts yet so Meta might be creating shadow accounts for Instagram accounts that haven’t taken the plunge yet.
Or, you could continue your brave forward-looking journey and try one of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#/media/File:Fediverse_branches_1.2.png (namely Pixelfed) and leave Marks torture cellar behind.
Problem there is that you need to move many people at the same time to work (extremely hard) so your friend would be there while in Lemmy you dont need friends just content
Unless, of course, Meta is lying. Threads will be federated and Instagram will likely follow, meaning any instance dumb enough to not defederate them will be able to interact and follow users without an Instagram account.
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