Meta's vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square
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With its new Twitter competitor Threads, Meta could stand to learn from from both recent and ancient history.

It’s just Instagram without images. It’ll be influencers and meme accounts, for better or worse.

For better. 90% of Twitter’s and Facebook’s toxicity comes from political disputes.

I haven’t seen that kind of toxicity in instagram, only the “look at my perfect life” toxicity, which isn’t as bad. At least they are cool pics.

If I had to pick my poison, I’d pick Threads and Instagram. Thankfully, I don’t have to.

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Yeah I view it as negative but closer to neutral. Hopefully the “look at my perfect life” posts are understood as being fake or requiring inheriting great wealth by now.

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