In the context of our Liotes project, we made a partnership with the LEO team to help develop Threads. To do this, they delegated 25'000 LEO to our curation account so that we can upvote the content of the people using the #liotes tag. The nice side effect of this is that I started to use Threads myself and I managed to draw some first conclusions.
I've been using similar platforms regularly but with little success
In the past I joined several projects like Torum, noise.cash and even Twitter with the idea to actually use these platforms to promote my posts and reach a broader public. I quickly realized that Twitter wasn't for me. I don't have the time and the energy to build up a follower base and risking to get banned like @eddiespino this week.
I'm still using Torum and noise.app, which replaced noise.cash, from time to time. These two platforms were actually working quite well as long as their incentive program worked. For both it has become quite difficult to earn anything today. With the lack of incentive, the activity was reduced drastically and both platforms have become ghost towns. At their peak, I was getting quite a lot of traffic on my posts from these platforms.
What to use Threads for?
Let's get back to threads. So from a content creator perspective, threads can help me to show my posts to a broader public. This is a very important use case already I believe.
Another way to use threads is to actually have discussions with friends. At the moment, most of these discussions take place on discord servers where they are quite easy to follow. Most hive projects send their members to discord and I agree that it can be very helpful for projects. However, the general chat doesn't have to be on discord. Why not use threads for that?
For Liotes, we organized a mission this week where people simply had to write a comment in Threads and it worked quite well. Threads could definitely be used for contests or giveaways. There is often no need to make whole posts about such things. A thread could be enough!
Then we have what @jongolson would call „snackable content“, which is mainly short form content. This could be a post about the food you ate, your last Splinterlands reward chests, a nice sunset, the latest sport results or even your opinion on a subject. In our society, this form of content takes more and more space since people don't have time to read long posts or watch 5 minutes videos...
The big advantage of Threads – activity can easily be incentivised
When you have such a platform linked to a broader blockchain like hive, this offers in my opinion a huge advantage. All the mechanisms for incentivation are already in place. You can upvote threads with LEO power and also with Hive power or you can use tip bots to reward content. There are plenty of other ways to incentivise people to use the platform.
People spend their time gladly on social media but it becomes something totally different when they can earn money with that activity. That is where the hive ecosystem is strong.
What needs to be improved
I heard that a lot of things were planned for the platform and they might be implemented soon. I think it would be great to have some features that would make it easier to follow discussions. If, for example, I make a giveaway thread, I would like to access it with a single click and see all the answers. Also, it would be great if I could create discussions with other users and invite people to it. At the moment, the filtering through tags is about the only way to get a selection of threads and it's probably not enough. I'm sure there are plans to add functions like friends and followers which would be a great add on.
In general, I really started to like Threads because it offers new ways to interact with others. I can easily show appreciation with small upvotes and comment without spending too much time and too much voting power. Paradoxically, I met a lot of Hivians on platforms like noise.cash. It would be great to actually meet them on a Hive related platform like Threads.
I believe Threads will need some more time to reach it's full potential and I honestly hope that it will not be overrun too soon by a big amount of new users. Why? Because I want to profit from having the early mover advantage ;-)
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