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What is a Thread, and how is it defining media access? I have the vague impression it’s a Facebook product.
It's a Twitter clone, closely tied to Instagram.
It has pretty much zero redeeming qualities, since Zuck has decided to signal boost the same kind of brands and vapid drivel from influencers that infest Insta.
Expect millions of ditzy idiots trying their hands at writing more text than they've written at length since high school, outside of hash tags.
Twitter is a very high variance site, if you can curate your feed, it's great, but if you can't, it's trash.
Threads, in an attempt to be the advertiser friendly, safe-space alternative, has also lost everything that can interest someone who doesn't want middling slop.
It's also app only, and needs an Instagram account.
In terms of alternatives, there's the Big Kahuna, Twitter itself. It took me a pretty decent chunk of time to get acclimatized and then beat the algorithm into showing me things I want, but it was worth it.
There are a smattering of smaller sites like Bluesky, or Fediverse websites like Mastodon that run on decentralized protocols, but my experience with them is limited. They have way smaller user bases for one.
For what it's worth, I do recommend Twitter, even with Elon's erratic management.
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