The Twitter Replacement No One Asked For

[@itsgabibelle]

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[@samesu766white7]

Raid shadow legends lmao

[@F15_C]

-You said the series is "limited" Of course it is, raid is greedy, trying to get you to watch now and if not you'll have to pay -You said they are adding lore Ah yes their game is so horrible so they're trying to get matpat to help

[@farmingsim9813]

raid shadow legends

[@ryanhorton607]

4:12 "Hi! And welcome to the least creative comment section on KZbin!!! That's the same shit they've been saying for FIVE YEARS! Because, fun fact, if you scroll down, just a little bit, and see the same thing you were gonna say twenty five times over and over .. You don't have to say it too. It's NOT FUNNY! ... STOP IT!!!"

[@JoshTheWoz]

​@@samesu766white7aww come on her content is great if you knew how much they paid for these sponsorships you would have Raid in your videos too, good on you Gabi! 😅

[@inotanzen]

Saw a tumblr post about how threads feels like watching a Sailor Moon episode where a business pops up overnight and everyone is instantly like This Is The Best! as some evil demon sucks their life force away through the product and nothing has ever been so accurate.

[@renadraws]

hello fellow tumblr user :D

[@Mike90317]

We live in a Sailor Moon world and I love it.

[@explodingegg123]

​@@renadrawshi fellow fellow tumblr user :)

[@BlooBoi23]

tumblr? Did you come back from 2013 to make this comment?

[@CosmicSponge2004]

​@renadraws We meet Again >:)

[@korysovec]

Fun fact. Twitter is rather small compared to any other social media. Even Reddit is much larger.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Even 4Chan

[@sage.sophia]

and Reddit was sooo nice before they changed a bunch of stuff recently

[@sage.sophia]

I still haven't been back online because of the strike

[@imjustdandy9799]

Me too!

[@jabber5632]

Same! I did the 48 hour thing and haven't been back since.

[@ellioteel]

I'm on board with ditching Twitter, but why does anyone think moving to an app owned by Facebook is going to be any better??

[@Velereonics]

Im not on board with it tbh, because I like that it's a text focused app, pretty much the last one. If you find a good community on small twitter, you will have found some of the funniest and smartest people alive, and they will have attention spans longer than tiktoks vid length limit.

[@chrislowles]

Main reason why I'm just gonna follow Threads accounts on my Mastodon account when it opens up further, Zuck can't get me there.

[@shay2804]

@@chrislowles the devs have said that expanding into the fediverse is on the list of what theyre planning on doing soon (im guessing not top priority tho)

[@JamesLawner]

Why not just use Blue Sky? Or that social network Zack Snyder is on?

[@chariiteee]

literally this

[@corduroy799]

I think the funniest thing that came of this was Tumblr verification where you could get like multiple checkmarks and some people had like 8

[@joeblankenship377]

I wish KZbin would dump the "Shorts." We get enough of those on Instagram and TikTok. KZbin's whole thing is that it can be an alternative to television. But people don't turn on the TV to watch 60 second shows that loop continuously.

[@thj_5046]

atp i dont even care about shorts, my issue is the goddamn ads, either i get the slowest performance ever and no ads or 60 second ads infront every video + multible during. just let me use my darn ad blocker

[@fonesrphunny7242]

It's not that you got many alternatives, so YT can afford to not care about user feedback.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I turned Shorts off in the settings. If I wanted Shorts, I just go to the channel pages.

[@copper_sands]

it's really funny to me that Threads is banned in all of the EU because the data collection there is Insane

[@korysovec]

Not really, it's just not approved yet. It's like when GDPR laws came out, the first months many news sites weren't accessible in the EU. Anyways the app is available in EU through sideloading (Android, on iOS only after ver. 17 comes out) and there are EU politicians using it already, which is funny. Thanks to the Instagram connection, said politicians are also already verified.

[@JohnGenericName]

Facebook may be called Meta now, but they still do the same things with data harvesting. Wild that the name change seems to have actually worked on some people

[@copper_sands]

@@JohnGenericName yea, reading just a fraction of the list of things Threads collects from your phone made me feel sick

[@Defpp]

Jesus. This freaked me out and I went to delete me threads account but jsut found out you literally can’t delete your account without deleting your entire Instagram account?! What a trap!! Oh well, they already had all of that data anyways but 🥲

[@psychotophatcat]

@@Defpp WHAT? They lock your use of one to the other?! Christ almighty that's some Google-buying-KZbin level B.S.

[@amieebrydges1676]

Instagram forced its users to use stories by making the algorithm only show your posts if you frequently use stories. That’s how they’re currently treating reels too. You gotta be like a photographer, story master, and a videographer on Instagram now to be favored by the algorithm.

[@sleepy.timaeus.arts.]

dont forget artists (who can pump out content). some creators make videos of their process or art memes, and if they have the capability to make a lot of those, they get lots of views. i've seen some end up posting more reels than static images on their page bc, ya kno, they want/need the reach (especially if they take commissions). it's kind of crazy to think about it since instagram was originally a /photo/ sharing website-- and photo only, at the start.

[@flatline-timer]

They straight up removed sorting by just Recent also. Now it's only Top & Recent Top. There's no way to get discovered as a small creator there for real.

[@amieebrydges1676]

@@sleepy.timaeus.arts. yes! My comment is completely from an artists standpoint. I took a break just because I’m trying to figure out how I want to tackle reels haha

[@amieebrydges1676]

@@flatline-timer agreed!! Like you pretty much have to tag it heavy and hope it does well enough to be shown at all. Good on Instagram for forcing you to use their features, but like I gots a baby now and video editing takes forever lol

[@InvisibleRen]

Part of why I stoped being a creator as a side gig. I am too lazy to do all the editing work and tech finagling that is marketing. 🙃 The random TikTok-stealing aggregate accounts and small businesses can have the feed. 😭

[@MoonWielder]

Seeing Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have their ongoing feud from the sidelines will always be entertaining.

[@gillfreddie4100]

Though it's kinda sad how this is how we spend our time: seeing a pointless feud between two narcissistic billionaires waste their riches on petty insignificant fights just to soothe their fragile egos

[@chickenuggetyum1]

@@gillfreddie4100 nah

[@jklax]

At least it can be said that Elon merely bought Twitter while Mark stole FB while f*cking many people over.

[@DeePeeZee]

​@@gillfreddie4100people will disagree because they don't want to admit that you're right. I agree with you.

[@noahshields507]

It’s actually so sad that this is life , 430+. People who liked this all are sucking off two people who wouldn’t even look them in the eye 😭🥱🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Cryinginthecloudssss]

Oddly enough tumblr has gotten a lot more people joining due to Twitter being the true hell site and then Reddit also shot itself in the foot with its monitors. So weird that tumblr is now becoming popular again. And I’ve seen a lot of the new Reddit users make posts about how they LOVE how tumblr is, and how people interact with each other their. it’s nice to see. Nature is healing as they say lmao

[@toyafan]

tumblr can definitely have its fault and bad sides, but i honestly feel more peaceful on tumblr than any other app. and the blog customization for desktop is CRAZY. i love being qble to code it and use it as an actual blog. i hope more people joining tumblr can bring back interest in blogs / blogposts instead of consuming short and fast media.

[@Taylornxchole]

praying tumblr doesn’t go into the new ways of social media, they’ve already made some big changes the past couple years to seem more similar to instagram/facebook/twitter but it’s still its own little platform. tumblr is my safe place on the internet 🥰

[@HeartlessValiumWhore]

I wouldn't exactly say Tumblr has gotten a lot more popular, but it has gone from 100% dead to 85% dead due to what's happened with Twitter.

[@Liquorice_Monster]

Tumblr experiencing an increase in users is the exact opposite of nature healing lol

[@Darling_Decay]

Tumblr growing into popularity again! Our baby child creature thing is growing again! :,) Which means the toxic Twitter users will go there. They left tumblr for Twitter way back but now they’re probably gonna return so that’ll be interesting.. hopefully they just go to Facebook since it’s full of hateful T.R.A.S.H people

[@severelyworriedmia]

my friend and I were literally talking abt threads last night. we were saying how we wish that each social media stuck with their own niche’s, because the whole reason why I download so many different social media apps is to have that diversity in content/entertainment. now every app just copies each other (and usually in poor ways).

[@jessicalewis5406]

The main gripes I've seen about Threads are that even if you try to create a second account to be anonymous, it will connect it to your Instagram regardless, going as far as to use your internet connection information to do so; there's no friends only feed (who cares); the posts are all annoying corporations trying to be cool; and it steals and sells way more of your data than is acceptable in most other countries. I think it will survive because it has easy onboarding and everybody's already there, but I don’t think it's good and in fact I think it's dangerous.

[@JoshuaR.Collins]

Same here, it being forcibly linked to your insta, and the fact you can’t delete your threads account (and i think even deleting/removing the app too) without also deleting your instagram account. Just an asshole move on their part

[@hannieblck]

you say who cares about the friends only feed but then complain about the random corporations - i think the main reason people want a following feed is to remove the random corporations from the main feed ! /gen

[@imatwat]

ur fine, I know 3 other Jessica Lewis's Just tell them it's not you

[@khali-seaweed2]

I wont be getting on threads for exactly this reason, besides I'm already addicted to social media enough, I don't need more apps in my life

[@magentafox1657]

Is anyone else uncomfortable with Meta trying to get a monopoly on social media apps?

[@ajoy-con9065]

Idk i think its good that Twitter has real competition finally but threads harvests an insane amount of data and it probably shouldn't be the one we support

[@GabrielPettier]

If that’s something you are concerned about, you might want to give mastodon a shot, there is a large choice of apps and they all ask for absolutely 0 permissions. You should consider everything you post public, though, even if you make things less visible by posting to followers or specific people, since it goes to many servers anyway, managed by many different people, and any of these might be compromised, but that’s just like, the content of what you post, nothing else.

[@Atlasintokyo]

Literally I have been telling ppl this:/ it's why I won't get it

[@AdamMclardy]

You get that your in KZbin right? So signed into a google account?

[@GabrielPettier]

@@AdamMclardy oh snap, you got me, inconsistent ethical choices, contradiction, hypocrisy, Aristotle, you are so wise. I forgot that if one company has some of my data, all the companies should have all my data, it’s only fair, I though that balancing practicality and privacy was a dynamic act, and than trading one for the other sometimes made sense, especially when there are no infinity of options to chose from, and so striking the perfect balance is not always possible, whatever you decided that balance to be, fool i was, i even though change for the better was possible, that the world of possible depended on our choices and actions, and that doing better today than yesterday, was a worthy endeavor, I though taking time to use the rights GDPR gave me, and configure my google account to decide what i allow them to keep, was useful, and i though using ad blockers and anti trackers made my experience better. But no, you shown me the truth, people trying to propose better alternative shouldn’t be encouraged, because we already all had to submit to the bad options, we are never getting out of that well, actually. Goodbye DuckDuckGo, goodbye Mastodon and PeerTube, goodbye Linux, i’ve seen the light, and i must kiss the Eternal Stomping Boot. (do i need to state that there is sarcasm in this post, or is this going to fly over you?)

[@MRJMXHD]

​@@GabrielPettierthe point is that once you're online, there is no privacy. Every company has your data lol - having or not having threads won't change anything.

[@victowave7066]

Zuck and Musk should have that cage fight underwater, where the Titanic sank

[@viscountrainbows2857]

Battle of Billionaires. Hell let's get Bezos in there and make it a triple threat match

[@phamtuan1840]

make sure that the cage will remain underwater, no matter what.

[@shanel4294]

Fr, instead of throwing money at things and using the public to measure their success

[@Bella-gx4nq]

LMAO

[@walkingonneedles]

let the horrible monsters get themselves kil- i mean have a cool famous fighting match that takes place in a really totally cool location and will be so amazing and awesome and cool yeah

[@pruina3395]

Threads also collects all your data. Like everything, not just location data and stuff. It collects data about your sexual orientation, race and and ethnicity, biometric data, trade union membership, pregnancy status, politics, religious beliefs. Very cool and epic thank you daddy zucc

[@superdog2211]

Update - Threads died

[@friendlyfire7861]

😂😂 twitter for loozahs.

[@moopet8036]

@@friendlyfire7861 that's twitter, isn't it?

[@squiglemcsquigle8414]

It still has 150 mill users and approximately 20 mill active users so if it was any other social media it would be labled a success

[@AshleyGrahamcracker-oq3pf]

It’s at the top of apple store rn

[@xXSnowyXx-1980]

HAH

[@satellite991]

what i think a lot of people are missing about threads is that it is a MASSIVE data-mining app. there are permissions within threads that are a huge invasion of privacy, to the point that threads is currently not allowed in europe due to the invasion of privacy enabled by the app.

[@fabinta]

They are allowed in Europe, they aren’t allowed in in the eu , they are two different things

[@tedddybear]

Literally every social media app in the US does this. Your data has never been safe lol.

[@RedPandaSquadron]

As I've said before in this thread, half true. Threads collects the same data really as Instagram and Facebook. New apps don't release in every region all at once, and the EU has regulations for putting apps onto the stores, so it's often a later addition. Yes, it collects a ton, but no more than other social media apps. Yes, it's bad because of that, but it's not like it's some new invasion of privacy. Literally the reason people keep saying this is because one twitter user said it without a source. And then people read the terms and conditions for Threads, without reading the terms and conditions of Instagram and Facebook. They're essentially the same. Basically, yes Threads is bad for it's data collection, but we need to be rational and not hyperbolic in this. Meta is monstrous, but this particular app isn't like an outlier, Meta has been collecting this information from all sorts of different avenues for years.

[@Ally.076]

Wow what a wildly misinformed opinion which is spreading misinformation good on you for not doing any research and just spewing something you saw on Twitter 👍🏽

[@TrappedInDeep]

Was Twitter not? I'm definitely not surprised to hear that Facebook page is doing invasive data mining, but surely that was the entire point of Twitter

[@Meravat_B]

Mark and Elon are like schoolyard rivals and we’re all waiting for them to fight by the lockers

[@raven_moonshine39]

They are adult versions of the kid who's a little too into jiujitsu and the kid who has zero skills and keeps referring to his fat as "pure muscle" but still thinks he can kick everyone's ass.

[@starryskies0]

FR

[@AiYa.Ya15]

That's such an American thing 😂😂

[@Nikolai_Gogolllll]

@@AiYa.Ya15*Eagle noises* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔫🔫🔫🔫🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥

[@SidelineFilmz]

Threads might have a better likelihood of sticking around and lasting, but the fact that Meta could start to be in control of every major social media platform and collect so much more data than they already possess now... yikes.

[@whatTFisThis]

yea bluesky all the way for me personally

[@YHWH-XY]

Aged like milk, nobody is using threads now XD

[@Jay_359]

yeah there is TON of people using Threads

[@AshleyGrahamcracker-oq3pf]

It’s #1 on the apple store

[@rasungod0]

Supporting Threads didn't age well.

[@friendlyfire7861]

👍

[@SuperNicktendo]

I have been distancing from social media for the past few months. Reddit nuking third party api access helped me get off my phone more. Threads is boring and has the same throttling of new users as Instagram and Facebook. There's no organic growth there. That's the only thing that Twitter has going for it. Bluesky has 300k people and my feed stays the same for hours on end. I'm just done with social media in general. I'll create videos and let them ride.

[@cirquedefreak7329]

I’ve deleted snap, insta and don’t even use tiktok anymore. I have Twitter and Reddit but tbh I only go there occasionally

[@fabinta]

I only use KZbin for the past 3 years 😂

[@bnso3692]

If youre still looking for a place to blowse, BlueSky is now fun. Accidentally wasted a few hours on it yesterday and gotthat nostalgic oldschool twitter regret :D

[@thingnumbertwo2]

Someone should just be the hero we all need and bring back Myspace and Friendster so we can forget all about Musk and Zuck. Grats on 500k btw.

[@alexj-t2331]

Look up Space Hey

[@coolguyshockettes]

SPACEHEY ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ its soo cool

[@CMStrawbridge]

Myspace still exists

[@punkrockllama]

As someone who had a Mastodon account well before people started looking at it as a twitter replacement I don't think they ever wanted that kind of userbase. They're doing something cool but its definitely only appealing for a certain subset of people. I do wish they had better integration between instances but that's almost a feature not a bug.

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

Bro idk how people thought mastodon was a replacement for Twitter, it’s a cool thing, but it’s nothing like Twitter lmao

[@TriniTron.]

Sounds more like discord than Twitter anyway

[@r0cketm00se3]

@@TriniTron. Not at all, people just don't understand the idea of multiple physical servers effectively making a centralized virtual environment through federation of content. Discord is separate individual virtual servers that you have to be specifically invited to, Lemmy or Mastodon are creating the same core concept as centralized websites like reddit or twitter, but in a way that allows individuals to host their own servers and keep it out of corporate hands.

[@bugseater1]

@@TriniTron. No.

[@Mm-zu7er]

I've been on Mastodon for maybe 7 years, and it's been wild to see people think it's a Twitter replacement. It reminds me of IRC chat.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

Twitter allows porn, threads does not. That's ultimately a good thing for threads, because they don't have to worry about the human trafficking and CP problems that plagued, tumblr and Twitter, but that can keep a significant fan base on Twitter, especially people who are promoting only fans pages. However, beside for telling entity that promotion can easily be done on TikTok instead

[@Gloowie12345]

The NSFW space are usually the frontline against cp stuff, since they're the ones most likely to stumble across it and report it. When tumblr purged their community, the cp and fascist problem stayed while the civilian moderators were forced out. Facebook have a MASSIVE cp and csa problem, threads is most likely to inherit it

[@ThistleBlue]

The viewing of Tweets without logging in has been reverted because it was causing all the links that were on other websites to fail to load and try again soon after. Essentially sending a lot of requests at once consistently. It was Denial of Servicing itself. And so it should be back to normal on that front

[@MiracleMorris]

CAUTION NOTE: If you ever want to delete your Threads account, you HAVE to delete your IG as well Edit: Forgive me, I had deactivate in the original edit but it's corrected now

[@richardbottom9843]

oh no. anyways

[@deathlight4210]

That sucks

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Thanks for the warning

[@sammieqt_]

so they make you create a new account for threads but if you dont want it anymore, you have to get rid of IG as well? thats wild, thanks for the info

[@pedrowarior]

not deactivate, delete. From what I have seen you can´t delete threads without deleting instagram but you can deactivate it

[@Crusha2099]

Threads won't survive without a way to accommodate the NSFW market. Whether it be Artists, Models, Sex workers or any of the others that fall under that NSFW category. All of them who tested the boundaries of Threads were banned or had their posts removed. Twitter is still the safest space for them to share their stuff and promote their content. You'd think it would be a small chunk, but it's a fair amount of users on the platform.

[@W-I463]

Isn't this what killed tumblr

[@therealonionindividual]

isn't that a good thing??

[@nicc8302]

well as somebody that doesn't wanna see that shit, I hope the app never accommodates those people. so what if they can't post on threads? like people have been complaining about there being so many other apps to use (which no one is forcing people to use anyway), so they can use those to post their nsfw content instead.

[@nicc8302]

@@W-I463 tumblr is fine,, people just left after they removed the nsfw stuff. and you can still find nsfw stuff on there it's just more difficult to look for.

[@portobeIIa]

@@nicc8302 well, twitter is free ground for NSFW stuff, and you wont really see it as long as you dont want to... it's not in your face as youre saying it is. also, these people do NSFW content... to earn money. WHY in the world would they go to an app no one uses, when the point is to get clients to see their work. apps like twitter and reddit have had NSFW content for the longest time. has that actually ever bothered you that much? the app itself has tools to block it from showing up to you...

[@ttv.Just_Senju]

Psst, Gabi. You should examine (college) campus mentality and how it significantly contributes to apps that older 20-somethings (you) view as dead. I just graduated college, and I didn't have Snapchat before college, but literally EVERYONE on campus used Snapchat, so I had to get it. Everyone at my uni also had BeReal. So, I'd say those apps specifically are only dead when you're not on a campus. I don't have BeReal, and I wouldn't have Snapchat if I never went to uni.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

YES PLEASE! I want to hear more about this! I wonder what an infographic of the %/proportional app use of various apps by college/uni mapped to geography would be like. Do the apps stay confined to certain campuses, or do all the Ivies use different ones than other college systems? What do international students use? What happens with alumni? Do faculty adopt those apps too, or just student populations? What subjects/uses are most often associated with which apps? So many great questions grow out of your observation! Tbh this isn't just a video; you have an amazing proposal for a Human Geography or Anthro or Comm Masters thesis project...& I really hope people explore your idea more!

[@occult.thespians.society]

I noticed this as well. I'm a non-traditional college student (older 20-something) so I used Snapchat in highschool, dropped it in college, and then found out from my younger siblings that Snapchat is actually one of the primary apps used on campus again.

[@idkyou4733]

I was just going to say! I’m 22 and literally practically everyone my age and even younger still use Snapchat for their main means of communicating and a lot also have a bereal but I never got into that one

[@rish9422]

nah bro everyone at my uni only uses Instagram

[@agentredfbi9626]

Older gen Z/younger millennial here: Snapchat was huge when I was in highschool. Everyone had Snapchat and it was the hot social media of the moment. I remember specifically a time when there was a fight during a lunch period and within fifteen minutes the whole school knew about it because of Snapchat. By the time I finished college (~2019) Snapchat, even on my college campus was dead. I remember a freshman low-key roasting me because I still used Snapchat. It's interesting to hear how it's coming back on college campuses again. Also for the record I do still use Snapchat but only to talk to like four or five people who I could and do just as easily communicate with on other social media apps/via text message. Ever since they added that stupid AI though that I can't remove unless I pay for Snapchat+ I have been heavily considering removing it from my phone.

[@RiotEXE]

My only issue with Threads is the fact that it's part of Meta means it will be very anti-nudity (censored or not) and that fucks with a lot of userbases. Threads is nice, but it feels like post-exodus Tumblr at launch. Also sucks that if you delete your Threads account, your Instagram account goes with it.

[@sethtrey]

The worst thing about threads is showing you the threads in IG, but you can't look at them. Why couldn't they just make text posts easier?

[@KingSillySmilez]

You didnt even bring up the massive privacy concerns from Threads?? Its literally banned in the Uk because of it

[@eviethebunny]

I’m waiting for a really stressful phone call, so this video was actually a really great pause to just laugh and chill beforehand. I love your friendly tone and humor so much. Thank you for the consistently enjoyable content 💜

[@LunarEleven]

Waiting for stressful phone calls gives me a mild anxiety attack. Hope it goes well!

[@koiifsh]

good luck!

[@alexreid1173]

I get so much anxiety from phone calls! Putting cold water on my face (or even taking a cold shower if you can) always calms me down pretty quickly ❤

[@Ninjaned]

Hope it went well! And always remember, in the world there are orcas somewhere

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

This comment feels ominous. I hope everything is okay.

[@TtimeXP]

I used twitter for art and a quick place to get gaming info and whatever else I was on the lookout. I exited twitter about 2 months ago because I am so done with the alt-right hate and conservitive bombardment on every post. All these blue checkmarks blocked and having to scroll for any other engagement. Im loving Threads because a lot of artists are getting on it. Still in the "lets see what sticks" phase for a lot of people. Love the really clean interface and just positive vibes im getting. Hopefully they add trending topics in the search tab for quick news, and seperation of following and everything else. Make posts a bit more sleek (the 'Like' takes a lot of space).

[@yuki97kira]

Oh im getting threads just to see art. Im now on tumblr looking for cute comics..i think ill stick with cara for art portfolios

[@ktcottrell]

The actual issue is that you cannot follow or search for topics on threads. Its extremely difficult to use it for news or keeping up with sports or current events, which is what most of twitter is used for.

[@WordUnheard]

Congratulations on 500k+ subscribers! That's pretty epic, and it happened so quickly. Well deserved.

[@ciarau12]

Snapchat will always be my favorite! Just keeping in touch with friends and sending wild pictures and videos. Literally all I would want in social media with 0 drama or politics or controversies.

[@deathlight4210]

My favorite is tumblr and Reddit 😌

[@ciarau12]

@@deathlight4210 tumblr is so chill too! I just use reddit to see people's opinions on dumb stuff 🤣

[@EnchanterBitter]

Agreed. I don’t care about anyone else but my circle of people in my life and town. It just makes more sense to me. I don’t care what celebrities are doing on MY social media. If I wanted to know I’d look it up or watch a KZbin video on them. People think they’re more important than they are on most social media and I find that so weird so I stick to real people I actually can see or run into.

[@ciarau12]

@@EnchanterBitter right? I feel like it makes me so self conscious too like seeing people posting their extravagant lives while I'm at home 🤣

[@StarchieHalo]

That's because it's literally just a texting app it's not social media

[@PieBathBob]

i'm pretty sure the rate limit thing was a cover-up excuse for them having an issue with their code, i use an extension that strips away a lot of the new bullshit from twitter and i NEVER had any issues with rate limits

[@TomBongJovi]

It probably had to do with their refusal to pay their server bills and we're immediately cut of or restricted, and when they increased it they had paid off some of their debt

[@psychotophatcat]

That tracks. I have no idea if that's the case for me but I literally can't even see anything beyond the very first tweet and a thread, no comments, no follow-up responses to the original, nothing. Sometimes I can see quote tweets, but that's it. There's no way I have hit my limit two weeks in a row just immediately upon opening the app. It's just so broken. I use it almost exclusively on my phone, is there an extension that works on mobile?

[@GabrielPettier]

@@TomBongJovi yeah, apparently they had a big hosting contract (with MS) that was up for renewal, with a 1B price tag attached, and paying that was a no-no, so they were trying to move away to internal servers as fast as possible, but that creates enormous load constraints.

[@fabinta]

He doesn’t want to pay 70 million to Amazon web services

[@jackrichards708]

I found that mastodon operates best when used more like discord, like a private social media server that is highly customizable and curated on a smaller scale

[@strawberycupcake]

I love watching everyone argue over whether Twitter or Threads are better while I know I’ll only ever use Tumblr

[@ChrisLeeW00]

I think youtube can be considered social media. It’s also a tv alternative, but really all the elements for connecting with others is here.

[@AreLawReady]

I use Twitter a lot mostly for rumors, leaks, and news for my interests like gaming and following some of my favorite creators too. I feel like I really want Threads to succeed because Twitter has been so bad recently. I see random videos without triggers of people dying and I swear all of my feed is far right check mark accounts tweeting some dumb stuff.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

yeah i would love a way to have a completely non personal twitter feed apart from comments

[@djsierra777]

Pretty much the same reason why I want either Threads or any of the other alternatives to really take off. Ever since Twitter went full "free speech" but only for the side Elon agrees with, it's been downhill from there. From the most hateful, bigoted takes to straight up snuff films from random accounts I don't follow on my time line, Twitter really did become a hell hole. And not the kind people used to say before as like a joke. This time it's for real.

[@TheWhitePenny]

Never trust Zucc... EVER

[@richardbottom9843]

use the 'following' tab not the 'for you' tab

[@AreLawReady]

@@richardbottom9843 that solution works okay, but I do find that some of the for you tab is good at throwing in some things I have interests on from account I don’t follow. It’s just to see those good algorithm tweets, I have to scroll through the stupid stuff too

[@seronimo__7735]

Great. So the end result of this is that Meta gets far more powerful. Love this timeline.

[@boogyyman]

This video is the only time I will learn something about the Elon vs Zuck beef not against my will

[@gingerseed123]

as a professional tweeter (social media manager for a brand) I love threads. My team has been trying to phase away from twitter + my boss doesn’t know we’re on it yet so I can go OFFFFF and shitpost 24/7

[@javiskii]

Funny thing, threads is technically illegal in the EU cos their privacy treatment is awful, and Facebook doesn't wanna bother fixing it

[@sofi_sunflower]

I honestly thought the Zuc Vs Elon's cage match was a meme all this time. What a time to be alive.

[@simplesimply3753]

That’s what I thought too

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

😂😂😂

[@sassafrasfruit]

For once, it's a good time to have just never left Tumblr since the early 2010s. Slow and steady wins the race ect.

[@InATyzzy]

yep! 2014 and going strong ✊

[@bredcubed1161]

Tumblr is „dead“ in the way your average person doesn’t use it but it’s still going strong with a consistent userbase. It might not be the giant it was but it’s enjoyable to use.

[@sassafrasfruit]

@@bredcubed1161 yeah, as someone who gets easily overwhelmed by socialization, tumblr feels a lot more low-pressure than most sites. I've been on it since I was a tween in 2011, and I plan to still use it for as long as its around.

[@avocadoarms]

@@bredcubed1161 'still going strong' is very generous. It hemorrhages money and tumblr staff keeps making the site worse

[@MxchiefMaykr]

2011 and still the same blog lol. Tumblr has its own major issues, most of which come from the staff not understanding their majority userbase or being willing to let Tumblr continue to be its own thing. The Tumblr merch store and all would be a fantastic way to keep them afloat without selling data if they didn't keep pissing off users by bringing in broken updates that no one wants, I know a lot of users want to buy the merch and support server costs but are being screwed over by staff so they're boycotting. I mean, look at anything to do with Tumblr live and you can see why people are mad

[@JeffKelly03]

Honestly when it comes to Twitter, we should have just said “job done” after the first Sharknado aired. That was the apex. It’s been all downhill from there.

[@panakinskywalker6391]

The issue with threads is that they have to majorly change their data collection to be successful internationally. It's literally banned over here for violating EU data protection rights.

[@Ally.076]

Why are you spreading misinformation it not banned in the EU it just hasn't been made for EU users there are plenty of other regions that don't have access to threads because they haven't accommodated these regions since it's brand new

[@shay2804]

It's not banned. It hasn't released in the EU yet. Once they announce the EU launch, the app and META might be scrutinized by the EU's DMA regulations. Until then, its all speculation (I also doubt they will ban it considering Google's, Microsoft's, and META's other apps are still allowed)

[@SunniestAutumn]

Why would I ever want to follow the same people on Threads that I do on Instagram? My Twitter-Instagram followees have ZERO overlap, Instagram being all people I know irl and Twitter being everyone else. Exposing people I know irl to my social media behavior is a threat against my person, not an appealing premise for a website.

[@uptownfunk1999]

Another Gabi video to distract me from daily responsibilities :)

[@allyrose6437]

I haven't slept and am up wayyyyy late how did you know 😅

[@moefields2645]

same I’m literally watching this at work 😭

[@norrisnutsfan28]

​@@allyrose6437 fr same it's 1am lol

[@kijetesantakulu]

@@norrisnutsfan28Australia?

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

KZbin is the last place i can comment cuz I deleted everything else, too addictive. And thats coming from someone who quits drugs to spite people. Well honestly i quit that to spite people too. Guess spite is a good anti-drug.

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

I think we’re maybe in an era where social media apps aren’t going to die off completely like MySpace but the audiences are going to get more “niche,” it’ll be less everyone on the popular bandwagon and more, what app do I personally like and why? I don’t think a new social media will ever manage to completely dominate again, even when they’re designed to be a direct competitor to another app, they all seem to keep a core dedicated audience even if they’re not really using it for its intended purpose. Maybe some will eventually fizzle out, and who knows maybe Twitter will implode in the next year but they just keep messing up in seemingly catastrophic ways and still coming out the other side. I’m definitely not talking for like decades and centuries to come, we’re going to change too much, but I think at least for the next several years this will be the case. Everyone is looking to the big fireworks finale but really it’s going to be more like a little sparkler fizzling out for a lot of these.

[@majones117]

I use Snapchat just to text people cause that is where we just got used to texting each other, and I HATE the discovery page. I deleted Twitter 8 years ago and only have an Instagram for my friend to send me stuff they can't screenshot. If she stopped, I'd delete Instagram right now. I was hoping Threads was like a clothing thing and was instantly disappointed by it.

[@The__Creeper]

There was no rate limit. The change Musk wanted to prevent people from viewing tweets without logging in caused an unintentional DDOS attack that crashed the site and calling it "rate limiting" was just damage control. It's why you would scroll and view a handful of tweets before being "rate limited." If this was real, you would get a popup like any other site saying "Hey, you reached your limit. Please consider paying to view more." They still haven't added an option to tell you to view in to view tweets without being logged in but you can actually view the individual tweet without logging in. He wanted a massive change to how the site worked but fired most of his engineers so they had to scramble to immediately implement a change that would take weeks of testing to implement for any other site. It was hilarious.

[@gfire_warrior579]

I was looking for a comment that mentioned the coding error that caused DDoSing hahaha

[@The__Creeper]

@@gfire_warrior579 It's pretty obvious if you think about it for any amount of time. You can't fire all your engineers and then implement major changes with no notice. It's astounding the website is functional at all.

[@garymerfdudegui9452]

Im pretty sure this video was the last time I heard about threads

[@PretentiousYogi]

Through comments, likes, and live chats I participate more socially via KZbin than any other digital platform. So on that basis alone I’d say yes it’s a social media.

[@sleepylil]

elon and zuckzuck fighting needs to happen. i’ve never wanted to see something more in my life

[@taiyakidog]

i found a fanfic where they have sexy time during the cage match :)

[@iainronald4217]

One thing I love about Threads is all the posts feel like the type of stuff people used to say on PlayStation Home in 2007. Sometimes, I imagine myself in the PlayStation Home shopping mall when reading Threads. Something else notable on there is American Eagle outfitters, they are running their threads account like 2014 when corporate Twitter first became a thing. Their page isn't advertising the company, they're just these languid pessimistic salty threads in a first-person perspective about how bad their day was or how awful their competitors are.

[@causal9873]

"Less of a chance to die out" , Threads has lost 85% of its user base in 3 weeks. With the remainder spending less than 5 minutes per day on the app. Twitter is bad; but Threads is ridiculous.

[@kylespevak6781]

People consider KZbin social media because it does have the social aspects like comments but let's be real most people use it like TV

[@DecisionAvoidant]

Gabi your hair looks aweome! The earrings are great too! Congrats on 500k 😊

[@svens.4694]

I have a hard time identifying KZbin as social media tbh... Just because there's comments? If that's the criteria then every newspaper's website should be labelled social media, too.

[@rainbowdino9310]

Do newspaper websites inspire or invite people to share and create content? Because that's the definition of social media. A website or application that inspires people to create and share content

[@ludacrisbutler]

Virtually every shopping website too - Ebay, Amazon, Walmart all have sections where you can read and respond to someone's questions or comments.

[@Bevolent6]

I feel the issue with following people from insta on threads is that I don’t really follow people on twitter who I might follow on insta

[@nikadeitch7118]

was really expecting a look into the shady coercive aspects of Threads and how its base functions show a concerning trend for social media (re: being able to actually see the content you follow). this just feels like an ad for threads like what abt it being incredibly invasive data wise or that you cant delete your account without also deleting your insta or any of the concerns im seeing people discuss

[@friendlyfire7861]

Ya she blew it on this one. gone is her down to earth skepticism.

[@Liggliluff]

(4:50) 600 tweets in 2 minutes is 300 tweets per minute, or 5 tweets a second. I don't use Twitter much at all, but that seems like a lot of tweets in a second.

[@farhat6674]

Elon musk really wants to burn 40 billion dollars with how he’s been running Twitter LMAO

[@rc31802]

Makes me wonder if he's doing it deliberately, so he can call it a business loss for taxes

[@TheArtkaw]

Except a part of that investment came from the Saudis

[@Vynzent]

​@@TheArtkawThe Saudis surely don't find any of this funny. I wouldn't want to get them upset. They won't hesitate to retaliate.

[@fabinta]

He is saving money by not pay rent and not paying Amazon web services 😂

[@xaphan8581]

How did he ruin it? The site was losing money when he bought it and was over employed. It’s crazy you guys are so upset because someone bought it to make it a free speech platform. It’s even crazier you guys look for websites where you can put yourself in a bubble of only hearing one political side.

[@imjustdandy9799]

A lot of professionals and small businesses are signing upto Threads because they relied on twitter for their business and since twitter is dying they need an alternative

[@24lizliz24]

I feel like you just convinced me to download Threads and that was not the outcome I expected from this video

[@ainef-x4b]

actually the the fight is off bc elon's mom said he's not allowed to. i can't even make this shit up.

[@amberberardinis5008]

The tweet limit feature is so bad for twitter specifically bc the twitter algorithm is fuckin terrible When I used it it was always just showing me the most random shit I did not care about

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

A large part of the reason I stopped really using my personal Instagram was I hate the random accounts I’ve accrued over the years, while I can understand following your old follow list can be a bonus and work well for the app, if I’m getting a new social I am purging the old follow list😅😅 if I was to start over I’d probably have one account for following friends, and a totally different one for following interests because it’s too much all in one account.

[@raven_moonshine39]

I had to do this with instagram. I have a personal one that's now private where I only follow people I know and an account where I follow all the influencers and stuff like that. I got tired of never seeing the stuff my family and friends were posting because they were being buried by the algorithm and random businesses liking and commenting on pictures of my family with "💯" or "awesome pic" or "post it on @spamaccount"

[@cormoranstrike1544]

I’m mainly wondering what the plural of threads is gonna be. Like we used to say ‘Facebook that’ and we do still say ‘that person tweeted’ that persons ‘tweets’ etc. I can imagine what the threads equivalent of that is.

[@kendi62]

People on the app have been calling it ‘sewing’ or ‘threading’ 😂

[@andrwhopkns]

Let's just keep saying Tweets. I feel like it'll make Elon mad

[@froggy5748]

Tbh I would just say that they “posted a thread”

[@koiifsh]

strung it?

[@cormoranstrike1544]

Now we sound like we’re talking about cheese strings

[@-user_redacted-]

Said it before and I'll say it again, one punch from the Zucc and Musk goes from shaped like a deep breath to being shaped like a collapsed lung.

[@jasonkilanski]

Right, because all 135lbs of Zuck would hurt so much, because he started working out a few months ago. That's totally how things work in the real world.

[@Gloopsies]

This didn't age well huh

[@jadejacobs2221]

The only Raid Shadow Legends ad I've actually watched! It's cool to see animations like that.

[@hermosas_rosas]

threads might not be what we asked for, but it being competitive with twitter is objectively good for consumers to make them improve

[@friendlyfire7861]

Yes, and it was good to see that government social media lost, at least that round.

[@Randombookwoorm]

I just love these videos. You make random weird internet shit funny as hell.

[@allyrose6437]

So true 😂

[@yellowsubmarine01]

I personally loved threads despite its controversies. I left Twitter 3 years ago because not only the people in there are insufferable, but it also got so much features that it became utterly overwhelming. Threads feels like the beginning of Twitter when the only purpose of it was to post silly things from our daily basis or just irrelevant thoughts no one asked for. I am here for it.

[@friendlyfire7861]

Still there?

[@kylespevak6781]

8:50 I think it's hilarious that people don't realize 90% of those kinds of accounts are either bots or ran by their team. Rarely does a celebrity actually have a social media account the public can see. Literally everything about celebrities is manufactured. Any interview you've ever seen a celebrity do has been prescripted

[@ranebrown]

threads is also very hostile to trans people and those wanting to keep their legal names private. There have been a few cases already of people who have had their names changed to their deadname/legal name without their permission automatically

[@RanRanRenchan]

Congrats on 500k Gabi!! I would love to see a documentary come out in a few years about how Elon and Mark went to war in the actual Colosseum. Please Italy orz

[@ErisIsAnAbomination]

Update from 5 months in the future, I just left Threads lmao. Basically the app is STILL completely bare-bones and still nearly useless in some functions; it’s impossible to get any engagement because you’re only allowed one tag per post and the posts that get the most traction are either pre-established brands or copypastas. The security of the app is also completely screwed because bigots and bait accounts started flooding in and nothing’s being done about it, not to mention how if you go into someone’s account to block them, it STILL counts as engagement and Threads will keep on recommending similar content. The functionality and algorithm are both completely broken and I’m fully convinced that the app was released UNFINISHED.

[@hahahapeas7792]

finally a good creator with an upload schedule that satisfies my need for entertainment

[@fortminorproject]

Love the honesty honestly I love Facebook more over Twitter these days Twitter has basically gone to hell . KZbin I can see why it would not be considered social media but that is the most fun . Snapchat has gotten boring and Tik Tok is still cool and Instagram. I like Threads over Blue Sky but things are getting over whelming that is for sure.

[@isaacartaz6200]

I really feel like we are living in some netflix show like this zuck-elon rivalry being teased back when zuck won those medals

[@BrianSkyVG]

One thing I cannot help was being hypnotized by your hair in this video. Ah, nice video too btw.

[@melbapeach162]

I havent watched yet but Im just immediately getting in to say so for Threads has been one of the most artist friendly social media apps ive seen

[@ubreaduuu]

twitter really is just a bird flying away but sadly always coming back to wake you up at 4am

[@biosec9361]

The raid ad was fire. As far as I'm glad you're getting that bag 🔥🔥. Keep it up Gabi!

[@juliapetersen4462]

I’m the same age as gabi, and I’ve never felt so represented. Too old to buy into tic tok fully, old enough to be tempted by my peers using it. Old enough to not want to replace twitter. Young enough to feel like maybe I should to stay relevant.

[@GT_Mr.C]

sure nobody asked for it but at least we can see everything without a rate limit

[@thebeesknies]

9:57 this aged well

[@codymadrigal6992]

Imagine being brand new to Jiu-Jitsu and at your first tournament. "Are you ready to fight Mark Zuckerberg?" Like what lol

[@andreburruss11]

Instagram threads is literally just Instagram with a different comment system and all the features taken out

[@jaynycha1705]

They don't even have a home page with recommendations. Hence I signed up but haven't used it.

[@andreburruss11]

@@jaynycha1705 no yeah no explore page so like how are u supposed to find new people or posts

[@martynaaaaaaajl]

Snapchat is still huge among kids younger than you. My little brother, who just turned 19, is still mainly on Snap and TikTok all day long

[@wilmzthecat_]

Gabi your hair looks absolutely amazing :) Edit: CONGRATS ON 500k!!!

[@name5302]

It does! I wish I had hair like hers ;)

[@Strawlighte]

Just starting this video but I feel like I heard a lot of people searching for a twitter replacement

[@willia_music]

​@@DecisionAvoidant We can only hope that Mastodon gains traction. It 'harder' to use because the app is splintered by multiple hosts (like discord). BUT you can still follow and interact with users on other servers. If you understand the fundamentals of a URL then searching and navigation is a breeze, with the added benefit of no big tech

[@Blancdaddy]

waiting for the DarkViper response video that you can’t do

[@8k.1000]

Why would she, it would be quite embarrassing for her to do it. She will have too admit all the false information she spread.😮

[@bobule0069]

​@user-oy2bc3fv9z fax I'm actually gonna try and post a video about more info that she spread that was just super incorrect and absolutely bad shit stupid Pretty much a deep dive vid I already started writing a script for it Spoiler alert its not that hard to find many misinformation she spread nor is it hard to understand her thought process doing research

[@KarlaIvethXD]

One downside about threads is that there are no trending topics or hashtags so you can’t search what other people (besides the ones you’re following) are talking about. And for me as a migrant I find twitter easier to see what’s going on in my country. I mean it’s not my principal news source but it allows me to see what people are saying even if they’re outside my circle