Beyond the Copycat: Meta's Strategy to Dominate Social Media and The Dark Side of "Its Threads"

Show me how people interact and I'll show you who's in control of their lives

This is a personal quote, it is not copied from anyone famous and is definitely something easy to grasp for whoever has a basic understanding of how social media works, what its purpose is, and how it is impacting our lives. There are 7 billion of people living in this world and 3 billion of them have a Facebook account.

Or better said, are using a Facebook account, as you don't really own your Facebook account. Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy motherfucker, a man of the establishment and he could not have enough of what he already controls, especially when the metaverse is clearly in the works, so he had to copy another mainstream app and introduce it in the Meta ecosystem.

A few days ago Threads by Meta was launched, a copycat of Twitter that has managed to amass over 13 million users in 24 hours and while Hive users who are active on @leofinance #threads are disturbed about the name of the new app there's much more to be disturbed about.

Threads was created by simply copying and pasting the twitters model, UI, and more. Meta has done that by employing ex-Twitter employees that came to work with a bag full of "work secrets" and information that wasn't supposed to be disclosed, but Meta is not strange of such practices. It's done that with Snapchat when it stole its model and introduced stories on Instagram and it's done it with Craig's List as well when Market Place was born for Facebook.

So, Threads, which is basically a copycat of Twitter has now the ability to overcome Twitter's user base. Twitter has something like 250 million users currently while instagram brags itself to be rocking over a billion users. If you are on Instagram already you can easily "claim yourself an account" on Threads without having to create one from scratch.

You can simply login on Threads with your instagram account and import most of your following and followers from the app. That will help Threads ' base a lot, especially when most celebrities have already transitioned from Twitter to Threads bringing with them millions of followers to the new app. No wonder Musk is mad at Zuck and even challenging him at a cage fight.

Threads has gone so far that's even stolen the "verified badge" option from Twitter, this way increasing its earnings right off the bat. However, Threads was designed to be a Facebook app and most of you reading this post( on a blockchain ) probably know by now about Facebook's history of selling users' data, censorship, and control over people's lives and ways of thinking.

That means that you can only thread on Meta's threads what the establishment agrees upon, while with Twitter on the other hand we have a cleaner experience. In this regard, I wanna mention the example of Tucker Carlson who's ended his career in the MSM where he was not allowed to tell the truth and question the narratives but able to have his own show on Twitter.

Twitter is under threat right now. A threat aimed at taking its users, revenues, and control over the social media use of millions of people from around the world(except the EU). When Musk bought Twitter, the app was already in deep shit, thus the need to fire some of the employees that Twitter once had.

Now the shit has really hit the fan... However, we shall not overlook the fact that both Twitter and Threads are under the control of regulatory bodies when it comes to the expression of freedom of speech exercised on these platforms and that's when the ones who are woke enough and are using traditional social media apps should start looking for alternatives.

#threads already exists on @leofinance and when I saw that Meta is launching a similar app with the same name I got pissed off, but then I realized that while they can copy the name, they can't copy the principles on which #threads of @leofinance was built.

On the real #threads you can post about everything you want, there aren't any political guidelines that would stop you from doing it or deleting your content, as it happened already with Meta's threads, you can earn cryptocurrencies for your activity and you can rest assured that your content is saved on an immutable blockchain while none of your personal data is stored anywhere and sold to third party apps.

Meta somehow had to come up with something new as the decline in Facebook users is obvious, especially when it comes to young age users who are going away from the app. Moreover, they need a monopoly over the social media realms in their preparations for the metaverse.

"Whoever controls the algorithms can choose the president* and that's why the establishment had to have an alternative to twitter and had to have all these brainwashed celebrities transition to Threads from Twitter.

It is all about monopoly, profits, censorship, and control. Not the end of the world though, as many will in the future realize the mess that traditional social media are and start searching for decentralized alternatives.

Guess what's going to be on their list first?

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian