I made a Mastodon accound ages ago, way before Twitter started to go down. It was a ghost town so I abandoned it. I dusted it off when Elon happened to Twitter... and immediately deleted it, because the instance it was on had been taken over by CP... illustrated, sure, but very disturbing nonetheless, and some very…

Or maybe just, y’know, pay attention when you click on something? I’ve already sold my soul to Google but no fn way I’m enabling something that will give Google access to even more personal information.

I have this vague, really vague thought that maybe...

Nothing like that for me. You probably clicked on something you shouldn’t have.

Not only that but unlike Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon its near impossible to trim your likes to just the interests you’ve followed on Threads.

Gizmodo: It’s a universally acknowledged, objective fact that Threads is terrible, it’s full of terrible things and terrible people, also it’s copying Twitter’s worst features, so no wonder people are leaving it in droves, it’s already imploding. Ugh, Threads is just terrible, why would people want to be there, it’s…

That pretty much depends on who you’re already following on Instagram (if you came from Instagram, anyway). When I registered to Threads and opened it up, it served me the same kind of things I’m following in Instagram: drag kings & drag queens, artists, and a whole lot of cat photos. Not a single brand or influencer…

Yes... I’m well aware of that? I wasn’t talking about him, I was talking about Jim Kirk, as portrayed by Paul Wesley.

Yeah, I feel the same, more or less. The first episode didn’t work for me because it was just too tryhard action-y/edgy; the second episode was a classic Trek court episode but done as if it wasn’t 2023; the third was just wtf all around, like yes, I get what they were trying to do but there was just way too many…

I don’t remember who said it but they were right: Elon is basically a salesman. He’s not a businessman, he’s definitely not an inventor or developer... but he clearly has a knack for selling shit. Or at least, had... I would assume a lot fewer people trust in him by now.

Yeah, even at the time I think it was fairly clear that for many people who signed that open letter the aim was “oh shit it’s happening way too fast, I need time to catch up!!!”

Elon Musk: “AI is dangerous! We must absolutely stop all AI development for at least six months and figure out how to regulate it!”

My general point is that Threads feels exactly like Instagram, which I’d guess is by design. People who love Instagram are going to love Threads because it pushes the kind of Content™ they’re used to and love being Influenced™ by. It’s fine, different people have different tastes; lots of people love Zaslavian reality…

“It’s not functionally different from Twitter in any appreciable way anymore! If you say that’s not your experience then then you’re just using it often enough, and not in the right way!”

In my experience Mastodon gets a pass because most people who care about it enough to still use it are those who basically just really really really believe in it, and are perfectly fine with its particular way of working.

Again, I’m absolutely willing to believe that Bluesky is awesome, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s not available to 99% of people out there. Maybe 98%. All I know is that the only person I followed on Twitter who got on Bluesky is a semi big name (big name in a particular subsegment of a mainly Anglophone…

Dude, if you still don't get it, it's your problem not mine. Go on enjoy Mastodon, just don't be surprised if your evangelism falls on deaf ears

Too little, too late, it would seem.

...my friend, this is what I wrote:

I signed up for a Bluesky invite the moment the option became available. That was how many months ago? And I not only haven’t received an invite yet, I didn’t even receive a stupid automatic “your address was registered” confirmation email! After waiting for a couple of months I thought OK, maybe there was a bug or…