@kroner It was a stupid concept. The users already have Instagram accounts. In fact, it's required to sign up. So why would they prefer to use a shitty text-first version of Instagram with fewer people on it and where the only topic of permissible conversation is about how terrible Elon Musk is? Threads was doomed to failure. Zuck is incapable of successfully bringing a product to market that he didn't steal.
Many don’t really remember it but about 3-4 years ago a group of devs made a Reddit clone/alternative called Ruqqus and it briefly gained a surge of active users as Reddit was going through ban waves.
Guess what the largest guild (subreddit) was on there? Well it was +WatchRedditDie, there were some other issues such as the head dev being too much of a janny (since they ran Ruqqus and coded it) and a bunch of political shitposters that turned it into a cesspit. It died maybe 1.5 years after launch?
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Building community on hate towards something might work, but not for long. Politicians on the other hang have never had any problem exploiting it throughout human history and still do it today 🤷
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@m0xee @kroner Poa dot st was built on hate for niggers and love for anime boobies
@caekislove @kroner @m0xee Those twin core principles should be the bedrock of any institution imo
