Does anyone else find it strange she signed up for threads? I know that aren’t a fan of elon and Twitter but I’m a little shocked.

Btw I’m not saying this as like “eww wtf is she doing”. Just genuinely confused as to why??? Not like she needs the extra platform.

  • lessthanthree@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’d have the opposite reaction. Why wouldn’t she? It’s a new, fast growing social platform from a big company. Personally, I’d rather not sign up. For a person known to the public, I’d view it like “Let me try this one out, too”

  • gila@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Because the stuff with Twitter isn’t just drama. Ethan & Hila have both used Twitter for a long time, and it’s not really a viable microblogging platform anymore. The traffic is tanking, they completely switched off discoverability to the outside world, tweets can no longer be embedded, etc. In terms of enshittification it’s in a whole other league comparted to Reddit or really anything else. It’s actually done, so I guess Hila’s using Threads for microblogging since as an Instagram user she would’ve seen the marketing for it. As a non-user of either, I’m glad, at this way I can see her posts if I want