Doing this because I have to for work reasons.
I’m on #Threads and if you are too follow me there so I can follow you back please! I’d prefer to keep all the mainstream random people out of my feed 😭
https://www.threads.net/@mariyadelano
I’m on #Threads and if you are too follow me there so I can follow you back please! I’d prefer to keep all the mainstream random people out of my feed 😭
https://www.threads.net/@mariyadelano
Mariya Delano (@mariyadelano) on Threads
92 Followers. Founder of Kalyna Marketing, a content marketing & comms agency in B2B tech. Professional fangirl. Ukrainian based in NY state. She / herThreads
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1) The app is super limited. No DMs, zero feed control, no bookmarks, no lists. No hashtags.
No ALT TEXT!!
It also keeps freezing and glitching.
But yes this is literal first hours post launch so we can give them some benefit of the doubt.
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I’ve been on this thing for an hour and my self esteem is already dropping because I see big influencers with tons of engagement talking about notifications blowing up and I feel like I need to be proving to people that I’m not a “nobody”.
It feels so performative and status-driven already. And the posts people are making are trying to get max engagement
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1. Big mainstream celebrities
2. Bigger internet celebrities and influencers (like big YouTubers and such)
3. Niche industry celebrities (like people who are famous to marketers but not really anyone else)
4. People who are active on socials and have some following but are not well-known (I guess I’m here?)
5. I don’t know how many casual internet users are on this thing at all yet tbh
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I am feeling like I am back in high school and trying to sit with the popular kids who definitely don’t want me at their table.
And if they did invite me would I even want to go?
I always liked how Mastodon and the Fedi never ever made me feel like I had to seem cool or perform.
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I don’t like that. It makes my neurodivergent heart very sad
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I literally broke down crying because it felt so sharply like Instagram and Facebook used to when I was a teenager and would see all the popular kids getting more likes and comments and followers than I ever could because I had basically no friends.
I am an adult with a great marriage, wonderful friendships, a job I love, and even a fucking decent social media following on other apps.
This made me feel a lack that didn’t exist yesterday.
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He has always been very good at making apps that make you feel social hierarchies where there shouldn’t be any. He’s always been good at making apps that dig into your insecurities and make you feel worthless. Apps that make you keep scrolling because you keep hoping you’ll find that golden ticket to becoming part of the “it” crowd.
But the game is rigged. He runs the fucking casino