It’s garbage and people love it. 🐑
Lowkey it’s pretty garbage lol.
But it’s by Facebook and a lot of people are already joining it. I feel like if anyone can compete with twitter it’ll be them (even though I genuinely despite Zuck)
Yeah people just want an alternative to Twitter. As long as it does the primary function (tweet) and has the users, it will grow.
It’s meta. It was ruined in the conception stage. No way were there good actors at play at any point in this process.
“Fresh out of the frying pan and into the fire” to quote Jay-Z
Millions joined? Or millions of Facebook/Instagram accounts were imported?
My guess is that a good part of those people are just trying to reserve a good username and then will sit on it.
Probably the same reason people from Reddit deffered to Lemmy. Discontent with the current service provider.
That’s not the question. The question is, why are people satisfied with Meta as a service provider, given everything they know about them.
And the answer is: Instagram. People don’t actually associate Instagram with Meta in the same way they do with Facebook, given that one used to be the name of the company.
Threads is an extension to Instagram. Hell, most Twitter users jumping over probably didn’t even need to create an account, because they’re already active on Instagram.
This is pretty true. I was talking to my gf abt meta making Instagram threads and she was confused why meta was making a product under the Instagram label before I told her that meta owned Instagram. Tbf to her she hasn’t installed Instagram in years so its not like she would see meta branding in their current app or whatever they do.
