i think they fucked up the algorithm at the start. they had like 100 million people join on the first weekend after launch and were just spamming people with the same "influencers" you get on instagram which is really not what people were looking for from threads, i think. Also search was broken or non-existent? Idk. I think a lot of people just saw it sucked in the first week and never went back.
I don't think the type of people who were repulsed by Elon's acquisition of Twitter were by any means the sort of people who would find refuge on Threads. These people all already have Facebook accounts in addition to their LinkedIn accounts and know how much of a black hole that place is.
I mean Threads has been shit from the very beginning and it's never gotten better even though Zuck had every advantage. It's like when Myspace could have become a social media juggernaut but it went into the toilet because it was entirely mismanaged and - oddly enough - that helped Facebook to quickly become a behemoth.
I just want some good open source stuff that's moderated by real humans, this shit isn't really that computationally intensive to run at moderate scale. All the tech bros are just so over leveraged on capturing every modicum of data on their users that it's bloated.
Basically anyone could run a decently sized forum on a consumer PC for their immediate area without issue, but someone has to keep AWS alive or the American economy collapses...
It's amazing how inept Zuckerberg is. How did he fuck up Threads growth this badly?
i think they fucked up the algorithm at the start. they had like 100 million people join on the first weekend after launch and were just spamming people with the same "influencers" you get on instagram which is really not what people were looking for from threads, i think. Also search was broken or non-existent? Idk. I think a lot of people just saw it sucked in the first week and never went back.
I don't think the type of people who were repulsed by Elon's acquisition of Twitter were by any means the sort of people who would find refuge on Threads. These people all already have Facebook accounts in addition to their LinkedIn accounts and know how much of a black hole that place is.
I'll be honest, I don't know why those people flocked to bluesky. @jack should not have anything like a positive reputation.
Bluesky got coverage on morning talkshows and stuff.
I mean Threads has been shit from the very beginning and it's never gotten better even though Zuck had every advantage. It's like when Myspace could have become a social media juggernaut but it went into the toilet because it was entirely mismanaged and - oddly enough - that helped Facebook to quickly become a behemoth.
I just want some good open source stuff that's moderated by real humans, this shit isn't really that computationally intensive to run at moderate scale. All the tech bros are just so over leveraged on capturing every modicum of data on their users that it's bloated.
Basically anyone could run a decently sized forum on a consumer PC for their immediate area without issue, but someone has to keep AWS alive or the American economy collapses...
Imo the biggest issue with running one from home is security. It's quite complex.
Security is an absolute pain yeah, but it's also not like there's a great track record among the big companies anyways.