It’s all horseshoes and hand grenades.

Now there’s 8chan, but what about future ones? Does it grow linearly (12chan, 16chan) or geometrically (32chan, 64chan)?

Thanks added!

Threads is weird, maybe because I’m not used to the Twitter-like format. Posting is fast like Lemmy (not surprising since it shares the Fediverse infrastructure). Replies are harder to read since it’s one level nested. There’s no downvotes.

Anyone can choose to tag any post or comment as any topic, like Twitter but hashtags don’t appear to be needed. Images and gifs are well supported by default, but it doesn’t support alt-text for accessibility.

The default feed is heavily bot-laden worth thirst-traps and AI women. You need to find actual people and follow them for recommendations for other real people to start to show up in the default feed which is a bit annoying. You end up with a social circle like in Facebook but they are complete strangers unless you accept recommendations from any Instagram contacts you know in real life. You need to turn off linking between Threads and Instagram (on both applications) if you want to keep them separate, it’s opt-out.

Political discussions are toxic; this is unsurprising. Lots of MAGA trash, but not Nazi-laden like X (formerly Twitter). Arguments with them are unfruitful.

The meme game is incredibly weak compared to here (thanks PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, cm0002, Stamets, LadyButterfly, Track_Shovel, etc.). Lemmy has an incredible amount of fantastic memes for it’s size.

There are of course ads but they aren’t as obnoxious as Facebook ads. No doubt Meta is data mining the hell out of your content.

Since there’s millions of people (if they aren’t conflating with Instagram users) it’s incredibly active. That part is nice but you also get the stupidity and ignorance from Facebook-like users; this is where curating your follows is important.

Has science gone too far‽

No wonder it’s most popular!

I think the Vance portrait would look better with a Joe Exotic hairdo (mullet and all).

It’s probably hot as hell in that doghouse is why.

No Skibidi Ohio? Has this gone out of fashion?

This is the Way. Doesn’t even really need to be a knot either.

How many monthly payments (and what rate) do I need to make for this MEGASiZE meal?

But White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said that it’s an “indisputable fact” that the body of water is called the Gulf of America!

Surely she wouldn’t lie, would she? /s

People are generally closer physically in Facebook marketplace compared to the global eBay market.

Reminds me of the English varieties in the post-colonial Caribbean countries (Trinidadian, Jamaican). Very informal compared to Received Pronunciation.

Our Linux patch had not only been rejected but had apparently been the final straw for Linus Torvalds, who announced in a profanity-laden email that he was removing all Rust code from the kernel.

“I’ve had it,” his email read. “At least C developers know when they’re drunk.”

lol

I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.

Mind controlled sex bots when?

That’s way too non-convoluted enough

I wanted to get into Mastodon, but I can see why it didn’t take off as much compared to Bluesky. It didn’t prepopulate the home feed on first sign up (it was empty), and only gives a small selection of people to follow and you only see their posts. Bluesky does a similar thing, but the home feed uses suggestions based on the people you initially follow to populate the home feed with others as well.

I think mass adoption would be easier for Mastodon to achieve with that kind of algorithmically generated prepopulation.

Also obligatory Fuck X.

What are you doing, step-socialist republic?