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Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?
Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.
There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY.
You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason.
Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.
Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want")
ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!
It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics.
Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!
Okay. So. I saw this post by @seraphstation which basically confirmed my thoughts about the Collapse lasting ~1,600 years. But it got me wondering again: how long were the Awoken in the Distributary before they left with Mara Sov?
Since time in the Distributary passes differently than time on Earth, some have theorized that the Awoken were hundreds of thousands, even millions of years old. But while the Distributary was 12.1 billion years old, the Awoken were not, and Mara was described as "confident in her centuries of purpose" after her return to the Sol system. So it seems more likely that the original Awoken (the 891 and the 40,000) were only a few thousand years old at the time of their return [early City Age].
While I'm not good enough to suggest an exact number, there are a few things I noticed: first, Alis Li rules for an age - roughly 1,500 years* - then another age after the Theodicy War. Then Nguya Pin becomes queen, and at some point in her reign [after a rhetorical "nine and ninety years"], begins a project to "identify whatever debt the Awoken owed the cosmos." A brief 30 years later, as Devna Tel succeeds Nguya Pin, Mara and her followers make their exodus.
*Note: an "age" isn't defined by a specific length, but several real-life ages [Bronze Age, Middle Ages, Ancient China, Roman Empire] lasted between 1,000 and 2,000 years. So 1,500 seems like an appropriate aggregate.
Once outside the Distributary, the Awoken are immediately divided again and Mara builds the Dreaming City in response. This prompts a visit by the Ancients, who seem unimpressed by her - an odd reaction to someone if they had also been around for millennia, but fairly normal if they were much younger.
All of this, plus Mara/Uldren/Sjur's "young adult"-like behavior up until the establishment of the Reefborn, leads me to believe that the original Awoken were at least 4,000 years old - but no more than 7,000 years old - by the time they returned. Could I be completely off-base with my estimate? Absolutely, but it's the one that makes the most sense to me.
And I'm gonna roll with it until Bungie tells me otherwise, because Avraam (my Warlock) being the Legolas of my group is the funniest thing I can imagine.
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