> Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to retreat to that lower left corner: focus on what is happening now, from people you chose to follow. The problem, though, is that while this might win the battle against Threads, it means that Musk will have lost the war when it comes to ever making a return on his $44 billion.

This hits the Jackpot, I'm desperate to get off Twitter, but nobody gets it right, and Elon is trying his best to ruin it with mindless crap in the for you page.

The thing is, Twitter already solved this, the old algorithm was actually pretty good! It balanced between speed and showing me what I missed, that is till Elon messed it up.

I was very optimistic about threads but it turned out to just be text Instagram, which is not at all what I want from an actually relevant platform.

> Ultimately, though, I think they may be disappointed: Meta is about algorithms and scale, and I would bet that Threads will leave real time reactions, news, and pitched battles to Twitter; Musk’s most important decision may be accepting that that is enough, because it’s all he’s going to get.

Absolutely, but I doubt Elon would stop trying to run Twitter to the ground to get every last cent out of it, and unfortunately it seems nobody is willing to replicate the Twitter experience.

Mastodon is too hard for normal users, bluesky is a glorified tech demo and threads is pushing its users towards memes and influencers asking you what you ate today, completely missing what made Twitter special, culture relevance and speed.

I don't want to see a threads from two days ago about a ground prix that already ended, or a random celebrity selfie, I want to see the latest news in sports, tech, open source and reactions from people in those communities, a good example is the current RHEL drama and all the news coming from Oracle, SUSE and others, it's all on Twitter, and unfortunately threads doesn't seem interested in changing that.