The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you.
“This was a post promoted to me from within Instagram to try and get me to use threads. Ill say that again: this is the promotional content shown to non-threads users as an inducement to join threads.”
If you do click through to the Mastodon thread, you’ll see several other people confirming they’ve seen the same or similar posts promoting Threads.
I’ve said the same thing in comments to other Threads related posts in this community but I’m going to say it again; didn’t we create and use fediverse software like Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed etc in large part to escape the constant hate-baiting and algorithmic manipulation of companies like Meta? Why are so many in the fediverse prepared to throw their fellow fediverse users under the bus by exposing them to a company and a set of users who not only say these things and not only allow them to be said but actually use them as a promotional tool to encourage more people onto Threads?
If Threads was a fediverse instance, it would’ve been defederated from by just about everyone by now. Why are some people bending over backwards to give Meta a free pass?
‘Wait and see’ I hear people say. I can already see.
Thank you for actually writing out what happened. I still can’t make sense of Mastodon threads. Whoever had the idea to make you click “read more” on each individual post to read it needs to take a basic UX course. Absolutely unusable.
The ‘read more’ is deliberate. I realise it’s annoying but it’s there for posts containing content warnings like this guy’s - not everyone wants to be ambushed by that level of hate, so providing a warning and then hiding the content to give people the option is a bit kinder.
Downvotes for accurately answering the question 🤷 Life is full of mysteries.
I still can’t make sense of Mastodon threads.
The problem I see with almost every Fedi product is that they just try to clone whatever is popular instead of considering what makes sense.
Character limits make absolutely no sense.
Tagging 12 different fuckin people automatically 34 replies down the thread makes no sense.
The layout and the way it’s displayed makes no sense.
It makes no sense for PixelFed to federate with other micro-blogging services or to include the teeny tiny fucking buttons.
Lemmy has very easy to follow and legible threads but Twitter/Mastodon ones just confuse the absolute fuck out of me.
At least they’re blatant in showing us who their target audience is.
Facebook can get fucked. I hope mark Zuckerberg goes fucking bankrupt trying to get his fucking ‘metaverse’ shit to take off. What a fucking spoon. The sooner someone invents a reason why it’s not a massive advantage to be a complete psychopath the better.
People have really been hyping up threads as if it isn’t made by the same company that’s been using its various social media platforms for the past decade to promote and indoctrinate people into alt-right ideology purely for money.
Well, Threads was meant as a Twitter competitor. Seems like the toxicity levels are starting to get on-par.
