For me I was HOPING it will replace Twitter. For me it looks like it will not. I had to sign up for Instagram first, since I didn't have an account, and that's required. I heard about it from... the zeitgeist? Not sure where first, but I feel like it's been all over the tech press. My guess would be this is what Instagram looks like for most people, minus all the pictures?
It looks fine, but there's a HUGE BUT... it's an algorithmic feed and as far as I can tell, I can't change that. It's full of boobs and butts and celebrities. I can't find any easy/obvious way to change my feed into something that resembles just the people I want to follow. I use Twitter to learn and find things that are interesting. Using Tweetdeck means I can avoid all the worst parts of Twitter, and the algorithm. It looks like I can't do that on Threads, at least not now.
And there's not a web app.
I assume those things will change, but right now, it's not for me.
It looks fine, but there's a HUGE BUT... it's an algorithmic feed and as far as I can tell, I can't change that. It's full of boobs and butts and celebrities. I can't find any easy/obvious way to change my feed into something that resembles just the people I want to follow. I use Twitter to learn and find things that are interesting. Using Tweetdeck means I can avoid all the worst parts of Twitter, and the algorithm. It looks like I can't do that on Threads, at least not now.
And there's not a web app.
I assume those things will change, but right now, it's not for me.