Twitter vs. Threads: Users are the real losers
The eyes of the world turned with excitement to the battle between Elon Musk's Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg's Threads, but users came out as the real losers.
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When Threads launched on July 5, it reported gaining over 100 million natural users in the first five days, and it became clear that the public was interested. The ease of transition, familiarity, and the fact that they didn't need to learn new technology was enough to keep them from thinking, "Why even choose between bad and worse?"
As we happily jumped across platforms, taking data from one multi-billionaire and passing it on to another, we missed the real problem. Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are the winners, but users keep losing.
The cost to Threads users to ease the transition is in the billions of dollars. But they choose to do so with a clueless enthusiasm to abandon the platform where users pay for verification and manage limits on the number of posts they can read. “Stick it to the man” (by giving in to another…). Who promised that Threads wouldn't impose the same practices, forcing users to accept social media's big brother or move to another platform? Maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
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The teams behind blockchain-based social networks and decentralized identities have taken the opportunity to work together and change the way social networks approach verification alongside profile and data ownership. With only recent promises to create a decentralized version of Reddit, we are too far behind in the education and infrastructure to house Twitter's homeless outcasts. All that's left is to accept the easy and accessible Threads. But what exactly are we losing?
Profile portability and data managementDo you need to be able to be the same no matter what platform and vendor you use?
Decentralized ID, or self-sovereign identity, is a form of identification or digital profile. But in the contrary...
The eyes of the world turned with excitement to the battle between Elon Musk's Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg's Threads, but users came out as the real losers.
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Join us on social networks
When Threads launched on July 5, it reported gaining over 100 million natural users in the first five days, and it became clear that the public was interested. The ease of transition, familiarity, and the fact that they didn't need to learn new technology was enough to keep them from thinking, "Why even choose between bad and worse?"
As we happily jumped across platforms, taking data from one multi-billionaire and passing it on to another, we missed the real problem. Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are the winners, but users keep losing.
The cost to Threads users to ease the transition is in the billions of dollars. But they choose to do so with a clueless enthusiasm to abandon the platform where users pay for verification and manage limits on the number of posts they can read. “Stick it to the man” (by giving in to another…). Who promised that Threads wouldn't impose the same practices, forcing users to accept social media's big brother or move to another platform? Maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
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The teams behind blockchain-based social networks and decentralized identities have taken the opportunity to work together and change the way social networks approach verification alongside profile and data ownership. With only recent promises to create a decentralized version of Reddit, we are too far behind in the education and infrastructure to house Twitter's homeless outcasts. All that's left is to accept the easy and accessible Threads. But what exactly are we losing?
Profile portability and data managementDo you need to be able to be the same no matter what platform and vendor you use?
Decentralized ID, or self-sovereign identity, is a form of identification or digital profile. But in the contrary...
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