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Threads is pretty chill and has a couple things going for it: my Insta followers/friends are automatically imported, no ads so far, recommendation algorithm works reasonably well (although it keeps pushing up Shaq for some reason), and there are some nice posi meme-y vibes. People talking about cooking and travel and music—no weird politics or crypto scammer stuff on every comment. Hopefully it stays that way for longer.

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> although it keeps pushing up Shaq for some reason

I was impressed that day one they basically most likely spent weeks/months behind the scenes reaching out to all "blue checkmark" people from Instagram/Twitter and encouraging them to get all set up on Threads ahead of time. At least I think that's what happened. They probably paid them to do it too lol

> no ads so far, recommendation algorithm works reasonably well (although it keeps pushing up Shaq for some reason), and there are some nice posi meme-y vibes. People talking about cooking and travel and music—no weird politics or crypto scammer stuff on every comment. Hopefully it stays that way for longer.

Why do you expect any different from the same company who even knows that its algorithm that was seen as toxic [0] from Instagram is now on Threads? They are certainly going to push ads when they have the chance and Meta will not change.

This euphoria always happens at the start of another platform existing and given it is by Meta again, I will expect them to screw over their users just like they always have done.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523688

Ye you're probably right. I'm not against ads on principle, I just hope they do it in a way that isn't super obtrusive. I feel like they got a good thing going on with the initial hype cycle. This is like the first time Meta/Facebook has been seen as cool in like ten years.

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