I set up a private Slack with various channels connected to RSS for that same reason (difficult to keep up with news I want to read about). It’s been months and still working out really well.

This is a comment board. It's not the same thing, namely because my phone doesn't buzz when I get replies, but also because there's no feed. I "curate" what I read myself by clicking on articles, and there's no algorithm learning about my reading habits to then show me more, similar articles. It's completely manual…

“My data has little to no value."

Don't talk about it. Just do it. I've had no social media for years and it's been amazing. 

More like the less smelly pile of shit beside the pile of shit that is other billionaires.

Musk, Trump, and dipshit followers are just Dunning-Kruger personified

Well, we do live in an exceptionally shitty world. Rich people commit crimes constantly and almost never go to prison. And when they do go to prison, it's for raping children, but their sentence comes down to house arrest. 

Androids/robots/non-humans always work well as the villain. 

Musk is exactly what he is: the rich kid heir to an Apartheid Emerald mine that got lucky with PayPal when he came to America and had all that slave money to fall back on if he failed.

It’s hardly suckering if his shittiness was so well hidden. The most you’re ever going to see of someone you’ll never meet is the surface. He just happened to bring more of the shit to the surface and now people’s opinions have changed (rightly so).

“when seen in isolation, they’re basically the same thing and do the same job.”

“The PR people running this campaign for him knew well that “the less you see and hear from him the better” as he’d immediately destroy the illusion if he opened his mouth.”

He's just the guy that owns the company responsible for starting a genocide. 

“After a former Meta engineer posted that the word “Threads” appears to be censored from Twitter’s Trending topics”

“100 million people signed up for Threads in five days. I’m not sure I can wrap my mind around that fact,” Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri posted on Threads Monday. “It’s insane; I can’t make sense of it.”

Definitely redder. The old suit is basically a dark red. 

The Nazis at Fux News and Twitter screech about pretty much anything (remember Fucker’s freakout about “less sexy M&Ms”?). They’ll find some reason to screech about this movie.

The reason is simple: it’s the start of the summer after CoVid has been officially declared over in most of the world, and people don’t want to be on their phone or at a computer.

I think it's a bit early to say whether Threads is a success. Linking it to Instagram basically guaranteed millions of people would sign up immediately, but I'm skeptical it'll have legs. Now that Twitter isn't Bluesky's only competition, I think it's smart of them not to make a mistake in haste by rushing it out. 

Something tells me they're more afraid of the backlash since the idea seems to skew heavily toward art imitating life. If people are separated by sexual preference that means there will be LGBTQ characters and that's going to set off the Nazis at Fux News and Twitter.