…when I look at Threads what I …

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Living and working in a tiny house the woods. I freelance as Beardy Guy Creative where I design and create websites, newsletters, annual reports and and all manner of graphics and documents. I experiment with ways to live a low impact life and write about the climate emergency, Apple and the iPad. Lately I've also been posting often about Israel's genocide against the Palestinians. Living on the traditional territory of: - O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw) - Očhéthi Šakówiŋ - Kaskaskia - Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)

…when I look at Threads what I see is an influencer-infested, brand-driven, algorithmically-jammed-up crapfest. A lot like, well, modern Instagram…

My point is that Threads and Mastodon are already really different culturally. … At the end of the day, I’m a Mastodon partisan. But I don’t love its collective tendency toward self-important dogmatism.

I think this is the most thoughtful take on Mastodon and Threads I’ve read yet. So much better than the reactive hot takes flying around.

Coyote Cartography - You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon