#group-chats

#group-chats

The most potent form of social today is basically in group chats, which is obviously not new technology, but what it's highlighting is the fact that that's a trusted group of people who you actually know, who are verifiably human

Meta is adding group chats to Threads, allowing users to message multiple friends in shared conversations instead of sending separate DMs. Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message and adding up to 50 people who follow their Threads account.

"You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now dead," he told the hosts. Ohanian said that much of the internet was "botted" or "quasi-AI," referencing the proliferation of "LinkedIn slop." The Reddit cofounder referenced "dead internet theory," which asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web. In September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that he "never took the dead internet theory that seriously," but that now he sees "a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts."

Geminis live for group chat dynamics, where everyone's talking and they never feel overwhelmed by missed notifications. They're always ready to spark conversation.

The group chats aren't always primarily a political space, but they are the single most important place in which a stunning realignment toward Donald Trump was shaped and negotiated.