Zuck has used his very popular innovation strategy to create his own version of Twitter, the World famous 'copy' and 'paste'. It is a shameless strategy that has served him so well so far, and he definitely isn't shy about admitting his preference for this style of competition. If you noticed however, it wasn't just the platform that was copied off Twitter, even the name would've had a couple of us in the Leofinance community smiling or frowning, depending on how you receive it.
According to him, Twitter 'missed the opportunity to be the platform for having conversations' and he has decided to deliver us with his version of the Messiah. It's all nonsense if you look deeper objectively and abstain from immersing yourself in left or right ideologies. It is an ideological War going on and nobody was just going to let Elon do whatever he pleased. We'll see how his Threads pan out though, and whether Twitter really is doomed.
I do take exception to his opinions about his platform being the needed platform for a necessary public conversation. Twitter does have its faults under Elon, but swapping right leaning for left leaning or extremely left ideology cannot be the balance we need to have such a platform. The World is already polarized as it is with various ideologies, and chances are we'd just have an echo chamber of a platform where left leaning people join his threads and right leaning people remain on Twitter. For me personally, I think we should be concerned about what's in it for us than jumping on one platform to another to spill vitriol or start Trolling.
What's in it for you though? Why waste endless hours on a platform that offers nothing in return? Would you prefer a place where free speech is allowed or not? Does Every moment spent feel satisfying or like a waste? I think we really need to consider these kind of questions before jumping from one social media platform to the next. So far, most mainstream social platforms with the exception of YouTube haven't done much for their users except sell their data. Are we really comfortable just letting that continue?
I have also realized that most people would rather take what's presented to them rather than struggle to create what they want. Many will join Threads not necessarily because they like the platform, but because others are joining. It explains the difficulty of building a platform from scratch and why other alternative platforms such as Bluesky and Leofinance struggle for traction. Of course nobody wants to talk in an empty space, but many these days are comfortable talking into echo chambers.
I think whatever Zuck is trying to create with his media platforms is already on full display on Hive, just without the added benefits that should accompany them. There isn't any real talk of a partner program and users don't necessarily feel like stakeholders. Instead there's massive revenue to be made off user data. This is why there's a lot of hope for the Hive platform. Perhaps one day people will realize that they really should be getting something in return for all the time they spend on those platforms other than unnecessary agitations
