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Discussion Thread 😃 Monday 10 August 2026 (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I downloaded Threads to the work phone because I heard it was a weird place. From a quick scroll it's like "What if logged out Youtube was Twitter"

[–] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Threads is such a weird place. The hysteria over the smallest things is wild to witness. And the fishing for attention posts.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

It has all that but written in the most boring, inhuman way, as if everyone is using LLMs to maintain a presence on there and the algorithm is selecting the most asinine posts to surface