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My personal thoughts on Meta’s Threads

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Actually, I did touch on this briefly before when Zuckerberg and Musk were supposed to have a fight (physically)...
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Now that it's actually launched, reviews are slowly starting to show up on social media.
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Some people say this is a total Twitter rip-off, just playing it safe.
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Reels and Shorts just copied TikTok's format → People who have no idea Vine even existed
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It's like mindlessly copying Twitter → Someone who's never really used Twitter
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It's good to share your experience as a consumer, and there's nothing wrong with criticizing a service. But blindly saying it's just copying or exactly the same as something else doesn't seem like the right attitude...
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Wouldn't it be more productive to think about what's missing, what's different, and why they put this here?
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Even Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft all make mistakes when they launch new products, so I don't think it's good to criticize them like you're above making mistakes yourself → Talking about people in the IT industry
All the attention on Threads + if this duel took place in the Metaverse using Oculus, wouldn't Zuckerberg be happy even if he lost?
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Personally, I think the core of Threads this time was to create Instagram's antithesis.
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One thing that really stood out to me was on your personal profile, you can see followers but not following.
→ The fact that your followers are visible, but the people you follow aren't, is actually a pretty important point.
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The algorithm that suggests content based on your interests when you don't have any following is kind of interesting.
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Usually they ask you to set your interests, but I have no idea what algorithm made them put this person in front of me.
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Like Twitter and LinkedIn had their moments, won't this have its own boom?
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I also think it's following the microblogging formula.
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Twitter also used to promote itself as a microblogging platform.
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It also gives off some vibes of Ameba or Mixi, which were really hot in Japan.
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I'm thinking of it as a microblogging service for text-based content that Instagram just couldn't handle.
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I also liked the bold move to ditch hashtags, since they've lost their original meaning and turned into noise → Of course, they'll probably get added back later or get broken up by topic and such
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What I feel using Threads is that it's both addressing the legacy issues I experienced on Facebook and part of the process of building an alternative to Facebook.
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