[ambivalence]

A fair point about what? Threads is out for less than a day, I have 8 followers there so far. I originally posted this information on Mastodon, actually: https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754

However, I have a much larger following on Twitter, so it was the tweet that got picked up by someone here on HN.

We'll see how this looks like in twelve months.

[sanderjd]

A fair point that it's stupid to implement a mostly plain text publishing site that doesn't support linking to any of the text published there.

Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!

[gochi]

You can link to it, what are you talking about? An example fetched from a verge article -> https://www.threads.net/t/CuVaOg1PgU4/

[rsynnott]

Linking to it works better than linking to Twitter, in fact, as of this week (Twitter no longer shows replies unless you're logged in...)

[sillysaurusx]

You can’t link to threads? By design?

I was seriously considering trying it out, but if there’s no search engine visibility, there’s no point. Most of the searches for my real name pull up tweets.

Hopefully it’s just a missing feature that will be added later. Even TikToks are linkable, and those have very little google visibility.