People Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not To.
As Israel-Hamas misinformation floods X, Meta rejects calls to promote news content on Threads. Zuckerberg doesn't need to replace Twitter, he just has to destroy it.
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Bluesky is literally just old Twitter but better. Why do people insist on hurting themselves with Threads?
Edit: for those more technically inclined, it looks like there are now instructions on how to host your own Bluesky instance. It sounds like you may need a developer account before you can federate with the official instance though.
Yeah the only problem with bluesky is that it still has such strict limits on who can join, and even who can see the content. Can't exactly make it your online home for announcements and such if most people can't see them there even if they wanted to.
You know what makes the Nobel Prize so valuable? Not everyone gets one.
Blue sky is following the early Facebook playbook of artificial exclusivity. When the feeling of FOMO is widespread enough, they’ll gradually open the door wider.
Edit: I don’t mean to imply that blue sky is good like the Nobel prize is good. I just mean they’re using artificial scarcity to drum up demand.
I'm not quite sure social media accounts and the Nobel Prize make a good comparison. I get what you're saying about the exclusivity idea, but in my mind "exclusive" social media can't really be that much of a draw if there's a million alternatives and it doesn't bring anything new to the table (it's not decentralized or federated if you need approval from a central authority).
It’s a club with people lining up outside then.
"I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member"
Now those are some wise fuckin words.
Marx was full of wisdom
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Fyi, don't post codes like that in public. Bots grab them. No site is safe.
Anyone still need one? I have 2
Edit: gone
I am interested in one, if you still have one
Sent you the code
How many do you have? I've been waiting on the wait-list for like months now lmao
I get one every 2 weeks, usually give them to strangers like in this case
I tried, but it seems it's already gone
Thanks!
I'll never understand why people are so excited for something that is proprietary and invite-only...
Oh yeah, they're idiots. I suspect bluesky is paying for a lot of viral marketing.
Nah, it's because it's less of a headache than Mastodon (everyone I've talked to likes the idea, but hates the implementation because they find it hard to navigate) and it's not a mess like Threads or Twitter. What people want is 2015 Twitter because they're not nerds. They want it to just work.
As for the invite-only thing, I found it odd at first, but I kinda understand why people like it now. It makes it harder for assholes to join and if they do manage to get an invite, they'll have to get another one after their account gets banned for bigotry or being a shithead.
The problem is its centralized nature. As a business, it's going to do what businesses do and get people hooked, then slowly enshittify their products/services until a competitor takes over.
It's hard because people are confused about multiple instances. Bluesky is a solo instance, to date, so they avoid that issue. But it will come.
Bluesky might be better Twitter, but if people doesn't hear about it, or does not want to try it out, they'll stay on Twitter. Or if they can't stand Musk they go to Threads. Simply because those platforms are the biggest there.
Maybe BECAUSE I HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE DAMN CODE!
Although with their proprietary solution, there's a significant chance that Bluesky is going to be Twitter 2.0 if it ever gains traction. I'm rooting for fediverse to take off because my social media activity has shrunk to a couple of group chats with close friends and family plus occasional comments on Mastodon and Lemmy.
Idk bro, sounds kind of emotionally healthy.
You know what would be hilarious? Eventually blue sky buys the leftovers of twitter and renames itself twitter. Although by that time it may not be a prudent move. So maybe not.
Even funnier would be to buy x.com in the liquidation sale.
I've been under the impression that part of the reason for bluesky's invite system is to help keep out bad actors. It makes it easier to ban someone and keep them from coming back. Buying Twitter would just open the floodgates.
Just buy twitter the brand but keep none of the user lists or tech stack, just the name. Honestly though I've been sick of twitter for years at this point and I would rather it be reduced to a footnote in history, an emblem of the bad times when a handful of billionaire assholes controlled all of our information ecosystems.
Because the majority of people don’t even know what bluesky is, and those who do can’t get an invite
They're a lot more common than you think; you get an invite to give out every 10 days. It's just that you gotta ask around for them. If you're looking for an invite, try asking a furry. I think most of the furry community who wants to be on Bluesky is already there at this point, so there are probably a number of furries who have tons of unused invites.
This explains why I was seeing so many Furries at first. Dialed in the Feeds and don't see them anymore but I was confused at first
Yup. The furry community is very tight-knit. If you pick any two humans at random, there will be six degrees of separation between them on average. I'd be willing to bet there's a maximum of six degrees of separation between furries, with the average probably being 23 degrees. If you pick people with related interests, the maximum probably drops to 34 degrees, with the average being around 1~2. The result is that Bluesky spread like wildfire through the community.
I think the invite system slows people joining vs Threads easy sign up. I agree that it is straight up old Twitter and enjoying myself on it. I just started getting invites , they go fast but definitely give them out. Seems like every time I see a post about it I don't have a code to give out. Definitely need to just keep one on deck for the Lemmy comment section.
