#Threads, wait, you've heard that from somewhere haven't you? Oh, wait, of course, from #leothreads on @leofinance. It's saddening, I'm not really trying to say Zuckerberg directly stole the name from #leothreads, but I also didn't say he didn't.
It's difficult to not call Zuckerberg a thief these days, Elon Musk is indirectly calling him that already. Why not? There are really no innovations on web2 anymore, what you now have is "copy code" and "paste".
We on hive here could swear that most of the innovation that web2 is trying to apply is already applicable and some of them are directly being stolen from us.
Web2 is archaic in innovation
Make no mistake, the fact that Hive doesn't completely have all the traction we want doesn't mean we don't superlative applications and ideas.
I mean, check for yourself, some of the things we've already implemented are what they'll try to implement in years to come, but typical web2 people are noobs, even when you offer them freedom, they'll still choose to openly enrich their taskmasters, giving them all the data they need to become wealthy and powerful.
First of all, Zuckerberg is a smart thief, you can see how he's managed to take advantage of the bad PR on Twitter to create his threads.
Zuckerberg: Robbing The Hood
This is why I use to say before now that Elon Musk might be wealthy, but he doesn't have what it takes to compete in the digital web2 space, the likes of Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are smarter people.
Trying to squeeze out $44B in such a short period from his userbase (Elon Musk) did he think it wasn't going to have any consequences? I'm not totally saying threads will take the user base on Twitter, but Elon Musk has so far enjoyed the fun of being the new kid on the block with Twitter.
The bad PR that was recurrent was mainly the reason why people are sentimental enough to say "oh we've seen an alternative, Elon can eat his app". 70 million downloads in two days show you that the idea for threads is pure sentiments.
Since this is ingenuity from meta, it's evil ingenuity.
Zuckerberg created the threads idea, with the promise of continuity and ease, because people no longer have to be scared of starting afresh, they could teleport their followers from Instagram and never bother about grooming, especially when they're already established on Instagram.
Here's another thing, there's this number counts with registrations. The idea is to create this sentimental FOMO that you're part of the earliest people who signed up.
While all this is pure marketing strategy, it created the distraction for many not to read the terms and conditions of being on threads normally
who reads terms and conditions these days?
But because this one was literally dark and shady, they just needed that distraction to make people completely forget reading it. Now one of those terms and conditions is that people cannot delete their threads account without deleting their Instagram.
What Zuckerberg has done is solidify the potential growth of his new app on the success of his already established app; Instagram. He also mentioned that he's probably not going to monetize threads until when it hits a billion users, I can't remember now.
Web2: The Monetization Greed
However, this is to say that threads might continuously function well, until that monetization landmark hits and they'll now become what Twitter and Facebook have currently become: see two posts, see five ads.
In reality, I think people are just a pawn in the game of these greedy people, monetization and data control is the only thing they care about. Web2 people are going to make Zuckerberg the most powerful man on the internet, with the data they're giving him access to.
The Data Grab
I mean, people are legally signing on their most intrinsic data by agreeing to shady terms and conditions, but Zuckerberg has smartly pulled this one off from under Elon Musk ago probably feels cheated and seems stupid.
We're in that era where people are looking for alternatives, but web2 has the same MO They make you believe that they're the alternative you're looking for, only to become that place you once run away from.
In reality I do believe people can do better, web3 is absolutely the smartest choice, the innovation and freedom is here, I guess we can agree that the entry point is tricky, we need that tipping point to finally shatter the narrative, but sadly, we have to keep becoming usable, adoptable and banking on time.
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