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Jul. 18th, 2023 01:05 am
The morning commute into the office is quite pretty, if you like that
kind of thing.
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Jul. 18th, 2023
Interesting Links for 18-07-2023
Jul. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. It is beginning to feel like Starmer is losing the Labour Party
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- 2. It's not just phones - Steam Deck and all gaming handhelds will need replaceable batteries by 2027 due to new EU regulations
- (tags:games batteries consoles )
- 3. How Do You Live review: a beautiful relic and the end of an era (and Studio Ghibli)
- (tags:japan movies ghibli review )
- 4. Worldless is a gorgeous Metroid-like platformer with a turn-based twist (I played the demo and it was fun and pretty)
- (tags:games )
- 5. Aspartame and cancer: Why you really shouldn't worry about this
- (tags:Cancer )
- 6. 51% would vote to rejoin in the EU (31% would stay out) and two thirds think Brexit was a mistake
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 7. Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch (I logged in to grab my user name, and haven't been back)
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 8. Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights
- (tags:italy lesbians OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
I mostly automate my existence on social networks when I join them. It's how I get my start on them, before I really care. Chucking out a few interesting links each day gets me a base level of interaction, helps me find new people who find similar things interesting, and helps build up some kind of "home" on a given site. It's how I got started on Twitter, and then on Mastodon. Without that I wouldn't actually visit the sites at all, at least to start with.
So when Threads came along I quickly grabbed my user name, but then instantly ran out of a reason to visit the site. My friends weren't really posting on there, and I wasn't willing to take on the effort of posting to a new site unless I was going to get something positive back (which especially wasn't going to happen with an algorithmic feed that shoved brands in my face but nothing actually interesting).
Fingers crossed that there will be an API at some point. Or that Threads will federate (as they've said they will), and so I can follow any of my friends that are there. But without either of those, or all other options dying off, I can't see a good reason to use it.
(And I'm not surprised that its number of active users has halved.)
So when Threads came along I quickly grabbed my user name, but then instantly ran out of a reason to visit the site. My friends weren't really posting on there, and I wasn't willing to take on the effort of posting to a new site unless I was going to get something positive back (which especially wasn't going to happen with an algorithmic feed that shoved brands in my face but nothing actually interesting).
Fingers crossed that there will be an API at some point. Or that Threads will federate (as they've said they will), and so I can follow any of my friends that are there. But without either of those, or all other options dying off, I can't see a good reason to use it.
(And I'm not surprised that its number of active users has halved.)