On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid
On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid
I don’t think it’s in its final form.
It’s obvious that brands and influencers were offered the chance to be pre-verified and, while I haven’t seen direct evidence myself, the word is that they could get some kind of FB/insta promotional discounts by being there to post on day 0 with a witty canned line about how great it was to be on threads
So when the app opened to the masses, they don’t have to follow anybody or wait for their friends before it had “value”. They open it up and there are a bunch of brands and “personalites” making it looking like it’s already alive and the place to be
The other stuff will probably come later… although there’s the chance that they’re going after tiktoks model of “we know what you want”
Growth for growths sake doesn’t help anybody
It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it’s a success.
I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet
Who does that select for though.
Those with the most time? The most money? The most aggressive approach?
Competition doesn’t tend to produce holistic quality; only efficiency.
ActivityPub or whatever BlueSky calls theirs could end up being the perfect protocols for truly Public online spaces, managed by governments in the same sense that they manage public meatspace
That’s because standards changed