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i looked at threads so you don't have to
the point of social media is to feel like you can connect with EVERYONE there, and in that sense, since Threads (by meta) is the only twitter competitor with a userbase pre-baked-in, i think they are by FAR the only actual threat to twitter in the near future
i love watching drama from the sidelines so i gathered some info about it, for all of us curious but cautious creatures:
toc: 1. features 2. acct deletion 3. home feed 4. privacy etc
1. threads is purposefully launching with MINIMUM POSSIBLE features. they are not shy about saying this. (wikipedia literally begins the history section of their Threads page by talking about twitter) they saw an opportunity to launch when and where it hurts and they TOOK it, instead of waiting to build an actually full service. and it's WORKING.
as of now, you can post/like/comment, repost, un/follow, mute and block things, and search (for accts). no dms, hashtags, web app, searching for posts, and your home feed IS your explore page (more on this later).
for more details here is a basic rundown of the app so far (nbc news), and here is a list of features they don't have yet (forbes)
2. they are 'looking into' a way to delete your threads account without deleting your entire instagram. (instagram ceo, via threads, and mentioned in other sources scattered around here)
from a slightly tech standpoint, threads is officially built as an offshoot of instagram. it literally calls itself an instagram app. when you sign up, you can only sign up via instagram. so depending on how they developed threads, it's likely that it was literally just easier to build a version of threads that is basically instagram with a hat, where removing the hat removes the body (??). if i give them some benefit of the doubt, maybe they just haven't figured out how deletion should work, since they seem to want every insta acct to have exactly one threads acct (so they'd need to plan ahead in case of returning signups and all). and since they wanted to get threads out as fast as possible, this is just what it came out as.
still, they don't seem to be promising much. imagine if they finish 'looking into' it and decide it isn't worth implementing. lol. also it was still definitely greedy of them to link those deletions together now so no one can leave when they realize there is no functionality yet! the same greedy that made them release this half-baked idea in the first place.
but, if you already made a threads, it is Possible that you will eventually be able to delete it without affecting insta.
3. from what i understand, getting used to threads is like training your fyp on tiktok. (i've also never had a tiktok lmao, but my friends do) it does not have a chronological timeline. it does not even have a Following timeline. you are served whatever the algorithm desires and you just have to deal with it, and you WILL be wading through default shit for a while (the verge but also Everyone is complaining about this lol)
they say that they are working on it too (instagram ceo again, via threads-- with much more conviction than they had for the deletion feature)
4. yes, it is asking for WAY TOO MUCH DATA ACCESS in the app store. meta does this with all of their apps (the general permissions list for threads on the app store is identical to fb's and insta's).
i've seen some people say that threads might not be actively using (or collecting??) every single category. notably, threads does not have ads yet, so a lot of visible surveillance things that fb is known for have not shown up.
this might be true Now (though it's an awfully generous opinion!), but they are At Least actively opening the doors to do so in the future. if you've already agreed to those permissions when downloading or logging into the app, you will NOT be notified if a new update suddenly starts siphoning all the data they ignored before. just so yall are aware.
this is likely not as big of a deal if you already have insta and/or fb downloaded, but it's always great to be informed :)
and yes, meta is withholding official launch in the entire EU, almost certainly because of their data privacy AND new anti-trust legislations. (some links may require subscriptions, but not all) there are other posts about this already though.
basically, threads is hardly even meant to be used at this point. it's almost completely unusable compared to other competing sites, which already existed. it's also run by a Notoriously Evil, massive company, with 114 Blazing Red Flags for personal security. (one for each type of data they ask for, plus 100 extra for saying "other data")
they are launching now to attract as large of a userbase as possible, and then just squatting on it as they figure out which functions to add and how to do that. from what i see, most people are joining for the same reason-- claim their username, and then squat on it as they wait for the app to be functional. no hate to them, because meta is nothing if not a master of marketing, and also there are a lot of legit reasons why you may want to claim your name, or make sure your following can stay with you, etc etc.
but what i'm going to be doing, and recommending to everyone else as well, is just grab a snack and watch this crazy competition from a Safe Distance as it goes down. i said that threads is probably the only twt competitor in the immediate future, because it's the only one with the pre-established market control to be one. but if we don't want to hand our entire society over to a soulless megacorp, we can play the long game. i mean, we're already Here, right? might as well just settle in for a long haul🍿
#threads#wrote bc i saw a lot of people saying a lot of stuff that was technically true but still possibly misleading#long#but with a readmore for yalls sanity <3#am i also being a bit leading. yes i wrote this with purpose BUT sources included so you are free to check them out yourself!#critical thinking baby!#psa#negative#technically? but important#!!!#thoughts from hel#LOL FORGOT MY OWN TXT TAG#twitter#meta#social media
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does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.
#also if it wasnt clear this isnt ‘its bad its lazy’ there is a level of like#completion consistancy i am thinking for with this#personally i really do not enjoy the like. vintage chic long red nails fur coats noir esque aesthetic HOWEVER 💥💥💥#i can recognize that it is put together it is Intentional#i feel like a lot of people are going to say minimalism on this so LET ME SAY 🫰☝️ i recognize that minimalism is Considered an aesthetic#but i *PERSONALLY* do not consider it an aesthetic i consider it the void of one#it is a lapse in aesthetic or personality in the same way a silence in a song is still technically a ‘beat’ but no music is played#however the importance of Space or Breath in design is more akin to a purposeful silence in music#because that silence matters in the same way rhythm and breath in design do#so i guess minimalism is more comparable to like. white noise. the sound of a fan#very little effort and there is a comfort in it i suppose but its not. A Design. okay#TO ME 🤫#if minimalism has one hater its me if minimalism has no haters im dead
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As they say in the industry, you either know fashion or you don't. And Miss Rarity certainly knows it!
#mlp#rainbow dash#rarity#my little pony#my art#fanart#1920s au#comic#little call out to myself but technically the bolo tie is anachronistic#they probably weren't invented until the 40s but that's kinda contested#but i felt it was important to give rd's suit a small piece of native american fashion identity#compared to the previous intentionally white-euro dresses
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can people start obsessing over queerplatontic ships the same way they obsess over romantic ships
#queerplatonic#aro#< not technically related but qpr and aros are after put together#Just thought that was an important notice since qpr can be done by anybody of any sexuality#And also should be normalised more for other sexualities#lgbtq#qpr positivity#qpr#Now here comes the part where I just start putting characters who are totally in queer platonic relationships#Thalia and luke#Masika and Jack#Xanu and gothi#Silena and Clarisse#Lilith and darius
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happy birthday. you are so, so loved
#important to me. personally. that he knows this.#just one out of six million identical waddle dees but as irreplaceable as your own heart#anyway............... just in case you were wondering i am still and always will be really unnormal about him#sorry for getting sappy on main...!!! i just think he deserves the world....#bandana waddle dee#meta knight#king dedede#waddle dee#magolor#kirby#starstruck dee#yeah i snuck her in there. what of it#my art#my comics#i ended up leaving the dialogue off but still technically it's a comic i guess
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Sauron: Aha, who is now in possession of the One Ring? A common soldier? Perfect; they will be tempted by dreams of conquest, wealth and power! But... wait, what is happening? Why is the tempation not affecting them? What sort of lowly human could possibly resist my power?
Sam Vimes, chucking the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom before striding off to get home before 6pm: Bloody stupid piece of jewelery-
#sam vimes#discworld#lord of the rings#lotr#crossover#when a discworld character appears in something else they bring discworld's rules with it#the one ring corrupts all who possess it? well sam vimes already dealt with a maleficient evil entity from the dawn of time so no biggie#technically he knows it's giving him visions of power etc but he is Ignoring That because it's time to read where's my cow to young sam#because Some Things Are Important
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I love the way you draw Etho he's so squishy
thank you! Whwh honestly I don’t think I ever have or could draw him threatening I never saw him that way
Even in the Apocalypse au he isn’t
#ask stufff#stufffsart#last life apocalypse au#Etho#ethoslab#bdubs#(Is there once#(technically twice but we deleted that panel))#he’s ‘chill’ at least early on I guess#forgive inconsistent hairstyles decided he doesn’t have the highlights when my hc of how he got those doesn’t exist here#found the lore doc and we back to building on it :]#left out a important detail in what his whole thing is in this au— another day#last life smp#last life#trafficblr#mcytblr
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hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au
turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else
now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident
also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out
#turbo#turbotastic#fix it felix jr#80s boyfriends#hammertastic#headcanon about them exchanging their trophies isn't mine but i loved it A LOT#and “darling” is turbo making fun of how felix was calling him in 80s#this hc about “doll” and “darling” pet names also is not mine but i adore it#turbo here is a complete freak who just stays around felix most of the time even when felix has moments with calhoun#and felix is an ass who keeps secrets from everyone bc he doesn't want his dirt to come out#he's ashamed of his previous relationship with turbo and doesn't want anyone to know any details#and calhoun to just know about it#this just gets worse and worse#they also didn't actually break up and were still technically dating when turbo went gamejumping#and he's mad af at felix because he's the reason ppl in the acrade made a boogeyman out of turbo and he couldn't come back#like imagine your bf says to you what you are better than others think of you#and then behind your (presumably dead) back tells everyone that you're just an egocentric maniac#i believe turbo has other reasons why he gamejumped (besides jealousy which took place but wasn't the most important reason)#and felix is an unreliable narrator#so yeah turbo HATES his ass#(but still would-) no im not making it suggestive#anyway i hc that turbo had put A LOT of emotions in this relationship even tho he's bad at this#he tried his best with felix but they were just making each other worse#and turbo while feeling betrayed never really moved on (yes even after 25 years he's PATHETIC)#and felix is just full of regret about everything but he won't admit his mistakes in his relationship with turbo#bc “well he turned out to be a bad person so that automatically makes me in the right about everything”#but felix had made a lot of bad decisions while dating turbo and was just classically ignorant about a ton of things#sorry about this random ass essay in tags i'm done for now#wreck it ralph#wir
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#ruinfolk#mask design time#this one is most important#technically the 'ears' on most of these will be part of the head and not the mask but-#its cuter drawn like this lol#'did you delete and repost after like 1 min' minorspellingmistakedotgif
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The Quest Continues...
(part 1- part 2)
#Fourfold Soul#<- That's the title of the project I've been working on!#I am very excited to finally show off the cowboy (gender redacted) I've been cooking in a slow boil!!! Yeehaw!#Yes this is the game project. YES I am commited to the bit of having the main character go through a long running pronoun-quest.#This character does not have a name so I cannot formally tag them...#(Okay. Technically they have an internal name for coding/scripting reasons...and I have a nickname for them.#But the important part of making a video game character you get to eventually name is that the name must come from *you*!)#The girl here is a npc so she has a temporary name. So I also cannot tag her. Hmm...#I have several FFS comics thumbnailed out. This one got made first because it's the funniest without context. Lore wise it's weak.#I would love to post the sexy clown but you have to wait just a few more comics.#Fun artist woes moment to share: This is the first time I've had to colour these characters traditionally. *That* was NOT fun.#Going from a specific digital colour palette to being at the whims of my limited colour choices in markers? Hell! On! Earth!#I might also be extra frustrated because this sure is 3x the length of what I usually do for comics! I spent a Whole Day on this.#Past me thought it was soooo funny and needed all the extra panels for pacing. I hate past me. That guy needs to be exploded.
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One Piece Ladies with the Highest Bounties 💰
#one piece#opgraphics#opedit#onepiecesource#userjenny#userolena#usersenka#kanamesengoku#nami#nico robin#boa hancock#charlotte linlin#jewerly bonney#ulti#black maria#belo betty#charlotte smoothie#technically ulti's bounty is higher then nami's#but nami is more important so she gets to be in the bigger panel#*mine: edits
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This has been an absolutely horrible couple weeks for the Jewish and Israeli community, so I want to throw in at least a tiny bit of hope in here. Amina Hassouna, the Bedouin girl who was severely hurt in Iran’s missile attacks, has been recovering well and seems to be in good condition! She is described as being ‘fully conscious’ and ‘communicating and smiling’. Two bomb shelters have been placed in Al-Fura, the town that she and her family are from, as well.
#ישראבלר#ישראל#jumblr#(I know technically it’s not but I think people will be happy to see this)#also#putting this in the tags— I don’t want to focus on politics because this news is more important right now#but I do truly hope that this will initiate stronger moves towards protecting Bedouin towns and villages#many of them are unrecognised and do not have bomb shelters despite being there for decades#the treatment of Bedouins by the government in general needs to vastly improve#hopefully there will be proper steps in the future towards improving conditions for these towns#like I’m trying to be mild about this because it’s a subject that makes me very upset and I don’t want to go on an angry rant lol#like I said— hopefully things’ll to start change in a few years if the next government can please form a coalition not full of crazy people#if you want to read more about Amina and her family the Times of Israel has quite a few articles btw
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day 1821 - half a decade!
redraw of day 1, 364, and 1000, but with a twist - now it's also my frogsona :D
for now i'll be taking a (maybe permanent) break for at least the rest of the year! see you in 2025!
previous versions for comparison below!
#amphibian#frog#frogsona#self#actaully i used a toad for reference i like their shape most#so i guess my frogsona is technically a toad (which is just a more specific frog but. you know)#also i cannot stress enough everyone has been so kind throughout the years it's been a pleasure to know my art has brightened your days :)#ok one funny thing is#i've been looking through the old art reminiscing. seeeing if i can pick a favorite per 100 days (the art is sorted in folders of 100 each)#and every single folder i look through i can't pick a favorite because i like so many of them#and every tsingle folder i think to myself 'oh that was a good 100 days there's lots of great ones'#even the earliest days where my anatomy was pretty terrible and my style was so different from what i like now. it's sitll great#it feels really great to be able to look back at my art and think that :)#and my favorites range from ones that are technically skilled to just cute or funny ideas#i think it's a good reminder to myself that art doesn't have to be perfect to be good :)#another important thing im realizing is a majority of my favorites are the ones that tell a story or joke in some way#a scene and/or background do SO MUCH for my own enjoyment of my art#even just some shapes and color in the background elevate it imo
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reattempt at some kind of sona/oc thing
#i always say “sona” OR oc bc any sonas i design usually i never draw as myself ever again LOL so they just become ocs#but i like this one more than my last. i want to put him in cute clothes cause ive been having a lot of bad 'phoria lately#wtf... art#oc#knight#<-?can i tag that. its technically knight armor. just. without the most important parts.#armor#character design
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the kid!
#in stars and time#isat#isat spoilers#not like. super important spoilers but this dialogue does technically happen in act 3.#isat bonnie#sorry if my handwriting is difficult to read but it is what it is#.art
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Another sneak peek UwU
Ross and Rorry
#they’re playing Mario kart btw#art#my art#undertale#undertale au#sans#sans au#fanart#horror sans#horrortale sans#cross sans#xtale sans#bad sanses#bad sans poly#I haven’t drawn cross in a fat WHILE so oopsies#also u can’t see it but Horror’s controller is a Kirby controller#and I think that’s important to the plot#I also never bring it up in the plot but shhhhhhh#gen question but do Cross and Horror have a ship name?? like I get they’re technically a rare pair but this fandom is insane#cross is wearing an alicorn onesie nd horror is wearing a shark onesie#domestic bliss <- coming 11th in Mario Kart
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