The essence of this title to help you see that you can do better with Leo threads. So long as you use other social media platforms that favor short content like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, chances are that you login into one of more of these accounts daily to update your status. You probably do it for social interaction or fun. While that is not bad, Leo threads should be your first point of call each day if you believe in Web3.
Apart from fun and social interaction, you are simply making someone richer in web2 social media
Of course you know these guys have set up the platforms for business. Each time you spend publishing or interacting with others in web2 social media, there are some economic benefits that come to the owners. Lets not talk about the privacy risk or lack of anonymity of data you put on this platforms. At the very least, your time should be worth something. That value is what you pay for being on the platform
There are a thousand and one reasons to take Threads more serious. Maybe remembering these reasons again will make you consider investing more time in Leo threads than you do now. Below are some reasons why I do threads now more often than I update my other social media account statuses:
- Censorship resistant: Of course, that is one of the very pillars of any web3 project. I have been censored in other platforms before because my voice is different from popular opinion. Censorship takes many forms from being banned from using a particular service, to removing your content or restricting features available to you.
The worst part of some censorship is that they are done by AI. For example, I advertise on Facebook often due to its popularity in my country. My ad account has been banned repeatedly even when my ad choices does not break any rules. Two times in a row, I applied for a review which a Facebook staff handles. Each time, I was cleared because there were no rules broken. The AI simply censored me based on some set algorithm. This is just an example.
So basically, Leo Threads give you back the power and full right to air your views. No censorship, no vetting and no AI manipulations.
- Short content is great: When you open the Leo thread text composer, you will see that it was designed to allow a maximum of 240 characters. You can take a look at the composer below:
240 characters is the size of standard text of SMS. Thats barely the size of one paragraph of text. Not a big deal. Short-form content is really popular and not many people are ready to write an entire full length of text like you see in this post.
Elsewhere on the hive platform, short form content is really frowned at. You might even run into problems if you are repeatedly found to post articles that are less than 300 words in length. But when it comes to Leo Threads, short-form content is not just accepted, but it is the norm. It is fine.
Short-form content is popular because it does not take anything to make a line of text, or a paragraph. So if you are running short of ideas to make a lenghty post, or you just want to share something really quickly on the go, Leo threads is where you should be doing that.
- Grow your Leo Portfolio: I recently discovered that some threads pay more Leo than some of my posts. Funny? But that is the reality! Yes threads is another opportunity to increase your Leo earnings. Many of us have already set goals for the year with regards to LP. If you are one of them, then you have some advantage of reaching your target if you are actually very active using the threads.
The interesting thing here is that as you make more threads and engage with other users threads, you increase your chances of getting rewarded through curation. Making a post like this one might take you hours to do and at the end, there is no guaranteed curation - and that is just one post! But when you make and respond to many threads, you have many opportunities to be supported. 10 threads in a day surely gives you 10x opportunity to be rewarded, compared to just one post.
So basically, you earn Leo and thereby accumulate more Leo when you Thread regularly.
- Be part of a revolution: The revolution is all about killing web2 short-content platforms and promoting the web3 infrastructure. Leo Threads is pioneering this revolution. Early adopters of each Tech usually have some benefits later. And when you are part of replacing legacy tech with the future of tech, you are surely have everything to gain.
The Leo team are still fine-tuning Leo threads and more features will probably be part of the new UI to be released. So if you join Threads now and be active, you are considered an early adopter. And the benefits of being in that position are too good to miss. So wouldn't you rather join the moving train?
Finally on this...
Using other social media to connect with friends is fine. But ignoring Leo threads entirely is not smart at all. If you have a regular schedule of updating your Whatapp status, Facebook story or some other social media, you should be able to have a place for Leo threads - for me it takes priority over others.
Its fun, its rewarding, its the future of short-form content and its really a great opportunity to bring about change in how our data is published, owned and valued. Lets do more with threads.
Share with me your experience using threads..
If you have been using threads for some time now, what do you think about it? What makes you keep coming back. What new features would you like to see? How often do you thread? Share with me in the comment section of this post.
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