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Comment by SilasX | Hacker News Reader

Okay something that confuses me: to replace Twitter (sorry, X), it has to be something whose posts get linked just as much, from outside that site.

I have yet to see a single Threads post get linked anywhere -- not here, not Reddit, not even from Facebook.

(Edit: Or at least, I'm too ignorant to realize what such a post would look like, in which case, branding fail.)

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It took a while for people to start linking to Twitter (sorry, X). I'd give it a bit. You can link to stuff though:

https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/CvPrxHdr4Y2/?igsh...

Interesting that even without the ability to really use it on the web, Threads already has a better anonymous-user web view than Twitter.

Since the recent changes, on Twitter you can't see replies if you're linked to a tweet while not logged in, and you don't even have any indicator that replies exist and that you could see them with an account. The whole implementation of the changes in that area is a real baffler.

"Already?" Elon broke Twitter's anonymous view just this month?

Seriously dude. It takes more effort to break the web than just use it.

I'm just pointing out that it's been broken to a state where even an app-centric thing like Threads, spun off from web- and anonymous-hostile Instagram no less, is a better experience to link to.

I've seen threads posts linked from Instagram stories. I think that's the main sharing use case right now. I don't know because I haven't bothered signing up for threads.

That's the problem: if you don't sign up (as I haven't), you can remain blissfully unaware of Threads. The same isn't true of Twitter.

I stand corrected on other Meta properties linking it, but, of course, they have to get links outside of that sphere to compete with Twitter on mindshare.

The same is becoming true of Twitter, can't remember the last time I saw an embedded tweet.

Huh? I see them all the time. And even without that, HN and reddit still link twitter or snapshot it. I have no idea what the Threads app looks like still!

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