[bl_valance]

Threads will be good for brands since they won't have to worry about controversial content, though eventually everything is going to be bland content if you are being censored to what Meta thinks is "appropriate". Though could be interesting if they pivot towards a more topics/community model.

[coolbreezetft22]

Why is any content that wouldn't be censored considered "bland"? How much of the HN top page at any given time would be considered 'inappropriate' by meta and censored? Is the content on HN bland?

[BbzzbB]

What kind of content are people looking for that they can't find on a Meta-filtered feed? Pretty sure I'll get to see all my finance, programming and shitposting content I get on Twitter in there, what am I missing out on?

[cactusplant7374]

I actually think Twitter is pretty bland because it's a lot of old topics being rehashed with no new information: vaccines, gender identity, and the culture wars. The only reason people are talking about these things is because of Elon. There is no current event that precipitated them.

[dragonwriter]

> vaccines, gender identity, and the culture wars. The only reason people are talking about these things is because of Elon. There is no current event that precipitated them.

Gender identity politics are tied to a rather high frequency stream of current events; similar to racial politics in the 1950s-1960s, as are the culture wars of which they are a major current battleground (again, just as racial politics were in the 1950s-1960s.)

For vaccines, the main driving force for the issue’s current attention is RFK, Jr.’s Presidential campaign, which is certainly a current event.

If you think Elon is the reason people are talking about those things and not current events, you need to crawl out of whatever filter bubble is shielding you from current events (or just stopping arguing based on your supposed knowledge of them if you are content in that bubble.)

[bugglebeetle]

> Gender identity politics are tied to a rather high frequency stream of current events

A nonsensical moral panic, concocted by the far right, targeting a vulnerable, minority that is small percentage of the population, is a bit of the tail wagging the dog. Having lost the battle against civil rights for racial minorities, they’ve now found it easier to use social media to rally people around discriminating against a tiny subgroup of gender ones. What a surprise!

[dllthomas]

Right or wrong, if you don't think Elon Musk is somehow responsible for that it's kinda orthogonal to the discussion at hand.

[bugglebeetle]

..Instagram will happily show its users an almost endless feed of softcore pornography?

[threeseed]

Only if you subscribe to it. And it's no different to what you see on Netflix etc.

[jb12]

Reality TV has been softcore pornography for about a decade now, advertisers have no issue with it

[charcircuit]

As opposed to Twitter happily showing users an almost endless feed of hardcore pornography?

[bugglebeetle]

Yeah, I mean, that’s the primary difference. Well, that and the ambient level of Nazism is much higher now on Twitter. I was more reacting to the parents comment about Meta only allowing “bland” content on Threads. Instagram is a far cry from bland or family friendly, even if people can’t post full nudity or whatever.

[PawgerZ]

If you consume any similar content across Twitter and Instagram, you'll see that the level of Nazism is pretty consistent between the two.

[fknorangesite]

But then turn around and ban actual, non-porn sex ed accounts.