Some turds can't be polished. #BoycottMeta πΊ
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I've read similar. The inability to limit your feed to only those you're following alone would be enough to make me uninstall, even setting aside the company behind the app.
Add to that the inability to order the feed chronologically/sort by new, and I honestly don't see the appeal. If I wanted an algorithmic mess, Twitter's still shuffling along, but it has the option to see posts from those I follow in chronological order, and if I wanted Twitter but (at least for my interests and in my opinion) better...There's any number of general Mastodon instances I can join.
I'm sure they'll update & improve it to address some of these points, but for a company with a massive amount of resources to make a better first showing? This, at least if what I've read is accurate, is pretty pitiful, like when they've tried to rip off competitors' features but somehow worse despite more resources.
I've heard it's just a single algorithmic timeline of every post on the network which sounds just terrible.
It certainly seems like that. It's a fucking nightmare, a true look into hell
Why though? Stop feeding the over stuffed.
You ever been kinda bored before?
Not to the point of giving myself a brain anarchism. I mean you do you, but I'd rather have 10 root canals without anesthesia then spend a single second using a meta product.
Having had three root canals in the last two months, I'm gonna have to disagree with you there.
But yeah, I'm not planning on actually using Threads. It sucks.
Yeah, I might be exaggerating a bit, but I'd still suffer though a lot to avoid it if I could.
My brains anarchic at the best of times.
This really isn't surprising. It almost feels like this was rushed. With a decent portion of Reddit's userbase revolting and the slow burning down of Twitter, there's been a small but still significant exodus to platforms like Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon (to the tune of millions), which are platforms that don't really do data collection. For many, these either are, or have become, their only social media platforms, which means there's plenty of data (that they either didn't have access to, or lost access to) for them to hoover up with minimal obstruction.
My hope is that, at the very least, the largest instances across the fediverse just straight up cut them off. Even if all that does is make it harder for them to collect that precious, precious data, rather than make it impossible.
Many instances have joined https://fedipact.online/
I wish that link helped explain anything at all about the information it displays
Tap "why?"
Or better yet please read this.
I understand the why, I understand nothing about that list of instances or what it means. Is it a lot? A little? How do they link up? Itβs just a list of what may as well be nonsense to me.
It's just a growing list that have decided to defederate from meta. Think of it as a list of signatures.
Every single Threads user is displayed in your home feed, with zero option to only show content from people you're following.
Same, it is dealbreaker for me. Twitter is still better as they has "Following" tabs where you only gets tweets from people you follow.. π£
Kinda curious about what you may think about this. https://github.com/neatia/loom
Personally I was fascinated by their simplistic design approach UX wise
Definitely rushed but it's a relatively simple application, I'm sure they can beef it up in the next few months