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I’m mainly avoiding it because it’s dumb
That. I never understood the usefullness of twitter anyway so i won’t find Threads usefull either
It’s because you don’t idolize celebrities and other famous figures enough to know what they do daily.
There were a lot more people on Twitter than pop culture celebrities.
In pretty much any field you can think of, some of its leading figures would be on there. Economics, urbanism, tech, astronomy, game developers, journalists, fan communities of essentially any creative work, communities for marginalized identities, pretty much any interest was well-represented there.
It was great for artists and scientists. My twitter feed was mainly filled with paleoartists and paleontologists bickering about the fullness of t rex lips and I sorely miss it.
I’m avoiding it because I have Meta’s entire network blocked at my router. 😄
Did we really need a YouTube video to explain why one shouldn’t use meta products?
I really don’t get this trend of turning everything into a video. Is it supposed to be easier to consume?
I would much rather read an article and get the information I want at the pace I want.
videos are easier to consume while doing something else. reading may be faster, but you can’t drive to work, do the dishes, workout, etc. while reading. if you’re not into multitasking then reading is the clearly better option, but I think most young people have grown up so surrounded by barrages of inormation from different sources all at once that multitasking comes extremely naturally to them
I have to say I also watch videos in background while doing other stuff, but that doesn’t make it a better medium to convey information, just more practical when the information is not important enough to be the main focus of someone’s attention, and that’s pretty subjective.
But I do get the point, I just wish it was different.
Because Reddit in my opinion was the least worst social network until a month ago, now that I’m gone I’m not going to go signing up for another Zuckerberg/musk/spez monstrosity. I go on TikTok because I have a teenage daughter and we need something to talk about. Other than that…no. Federation/non-profit or nothing.
I mean, the fact that it’s made by Meta should be a good enough reason. I’m avoiding Meta like the plague. Fucking sucks that I need Facebook Messenger for school group chats though.
