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Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tried Threads briefly. It’s full of the same people who comment on or create Facebook reels. Insta-political trolling, deliberately wrong info just to get people to comment and correct it, “I’m stupidly out of the loop on this ridiculously popular topic, can someone tell me why [thing] is?” Just to get every know-it-all to reply. Like every low-effort post on Reddit ever.

Couple that with the inability to sort, and the inability for notifications to take you to the post you were having a discussion on, and I gave up after about 3-4 days.

The platform sucks and so do the participants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I used it early on and at that point no one had heard of it and it was full of really cool people with good discourse. But then corporations and the rest of the riff-raff found it and it turned into what you saw it as.

The only way to keep something good is to not let it become popular.