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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:04:35 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I’m going to be honest: I still don’t understand the point of Threads. It feels just like IG. The discovery features are lacking. There’s little to no presence from the infosec, tech, IT, or FLOSS communities. No major government or company offers tech support using Threads either. Instead of creating a separate platform, Meta could have simply added link-sharing and text post options to IG. They went out of their way to build it, but it offers nothing special and their alog just sucks.

   • Mark (manderson@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:07:49 JST Mark

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     @nixCraft Fully agree. Just a way for Meta to try to siphon or keep curious users away from other platforms and hoover more of their data. Felt useless to me and deleted almost immediately

   • TintedKiwi (tintedkiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:23:19 JST TintedKiwi

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     @nixCraft Threads is basically that meme “we’ve got Fediverse at home”

   • Yuki Linux (eliteamdgamer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 07:30:02 JST Yuki Linux

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     @nixCraft i’ve only ever seen a single person on it. And it’s just rehashed readit mems they share. Though anything from Meta is blocked on my router because I find it disgusting lol.

     At the end of the day, it’s just a massive data harvesting platform. 

   • Dakota Chambers (dcchambers@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 11:46:46 JST Dakota Chambers

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     @nixCraft I think the reason it feels so much like IG is because they used IG followers to seed the network. But it didn't really work because people use IG and Twitter/etc for different things.

     And yeah the last of a tech community there makes it dead to me...