I don't think they're interoperable at the moment but will be in the future since Threads also uses ActivityPub. I'm just happy to see the sharks circling Twitter. Now anytime there's a Twitter outage or Elon does something stupid, more people will migrate to Threads, and advertisers will follow.
They're not going to be interoperable from the start, but supposedly will be in the future. Interestingly Mastodon uses ActivityPub, but BlueSky doesn't from what I recall. Hopefully the fediverse lives on, but this is chaotic at the start. Twitter pissed me off when they went and put Tweetdeck behind a paywall. That. Sucks. Especially around draft time.
As long as I have a place where I can post my right wing, nazi sympathetic thoughts then I'll be okay. Jews get out of Germany!
Seems kind of dead in the water if it won't be allowed in the EU, but who knows maybe it will gain traction. Substack's notes is a much quieter twitter and more direct as well. It's been nice for finance stuff.
Thread is a common message board term right? Anyway I don't do Twitter. The only time I've found it valuable to me is in the Ukraine War thread with the tweets from people in the war zone.
They are going to gain access to the EU. I think this first version was a rushed opportunistic release to take advantage of Twitter's rate limit fiasco.
The UI and feature set of Threads is almost an exact clone of Twitter. Almost zero new learning curve. Google+ is a mishmash of various new unique features, attempting to out-feature Facebook with its own uniqueness. I believe this is one of those 'try to do too much' apps that lose focus on core functionality (a risk of an 'everything app'), and that led to its downfall. Users tend to prefer simple, easy-to-use apps rather than ones with numerous options and choices that they find it wasn't worth the effort to learn.
Google+ was lame and folks had no reason to go try another social media experiment by google....I think it was their 4th attempt at this. And i would never go to something google creates because you know damn well they will abandon it tomm or create a cluster out of it. re: their 300 messaging apps that has come and gone. however, Threads MIGHT have a chance because 1. there's a bazillion people who already use insta. 2. people have legitimate gripe with twitter and want to stick it to elon. insta was supposed to die when tik tok/snap chat came out but they just added the same features and somehow are still chugging along.
