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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I spent the last few days almost literally under a rock and... what the hell is Threads and why is it everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What were you doing to almost literally be under a rock? I'm intrigued

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spent most of the days hiking and biking in the mountains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you were literally ON a rock? Ok, that's close enough 😁

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Meta's Twitter clone. The smart thing they did was convert over Instagram accounts, so there's a ton of semi-famous people on already. It's got a ton of attention in the past two days, just for being Twitter sans Elon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Facebook equivalent of Twitter (an underwhelmingly simplified description). I am not a fan of Meta but I'm a fan of competition in any market so even though I have no plans to use Threads I'm glad it exists as yet another option to prevent one single platform from being "the" platform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The new Twitter clone made by Zuck(meta/facebook.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its Meta's (Facebook) attempt at Twitter. Given how much Twitter is shitting the bed as well as Metas ability to push a new platform via their other channels, it has exploded overnight gaining millions of users almost instantly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well that makes sense. It's easy to gain millions of followers when you own Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. You just advertise to those users. Same reason that Google+ got 200 million users at it's height. The trick is keeping them engaged and being better than the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"I spent the last few days almost literally under a rock and..."

Stone!