<story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it&amp;#x27;s hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone comes into every thread to remind me that Mastodon doesn&amp;#x27;t need growth to be a success, whether the thread was about Mastodon or not.&lt;p&gt;Just gives me more of that feeling that the community here is becoming more detached. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, but I&amp;#x27;m watching The Great Fragmentation with open eyes to see what comes next.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more &amp;quot;submarine&amp;quot; marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You&amp;#x27;re not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta&amp;#x27;s clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It&amp;#x27;s really impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afterburner</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because HN is more like Reddit than Twitter&amp;#x2F;Threads, so there&amp;#x27;s more reasons to care about it. And a lot of Redditors probably came to talk about it here, some because their favorite subreddit was on strike.&lt;p&gt;Also the Reddit situation was very dramatic and adversarial, Threads is just a new boring product with a clean launch.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>HN is downright quiet on the topic, with only 21 posts over 20 comments since the launch (2023-07-05), 4 posts per day. Compare that to the Reddit blackout posts which seem to be closer to 8 posts per day. Only 8 posts with over 100 comments, whereas it&amp;#x27;s hard to find even a single Reddit blackout post at less than 100 comments. My friends in every other community are buzzing about Threads, but here on HN someone comes into every thread to remind me that Mastodon doesn&amp;#x27;t need growth to be a success, whether the thread was about Mastodon or not.&lt;p&gt;Just gives me more of that feeling that the community here is becoming more detached. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, but I&amp;#x27;m watching The Great Fragmentation with open eyes to see what comes next.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more &amp;quot;submarine&amp;quot; marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You&amp;#x27;re not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta&amp;#x27;s clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It&amp;#x27;s really impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badrequest</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more that the HN crowd cannot stand to think, much less utter the phrase &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;ve gotta hand it to Mark Zuckerberg and crew.&amp;quot; That&amp;#x27;s at least the feeling I have to get over when I praise Threads.</text></comment>