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Since it already worked with instagram, this was people signing in with their instagram account, checking the app once or twice, and then going back to instagram. The starting numbers where incredibly manipulated because of this single account system between threads and instagram.
I saw a lot of people excited to try it. Losing 80% of its peak users at this point doesn’t seem like a failure to me. Anybody who was curious was counted as a user. I’m sure fediverse sites have had similar, smaller influxes of new users that create an account to check it out and then don’t come back. It takes some determination to move to another social networking ecosystem.
Good I love to see Facebook projects fail
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It’s a worse Mastodon, run by a company that celebrated election misinformation, leading to the storming of the Capitol, and who later helped police arrest a woman for abortion by turning over private messages she sent to another party. I hope it fails.
That’s good news. First it was 50% and now 80%. How bout meta loses 100% of its users.
I’d still rather see Threads succeed and Twitter die now that a fash-friendly owner lets fashy types run wild.
Meta plays at least as large a part in radicalizing the boomers towards fascism via Facebook
Yep, if Threads can accelerate the death of - ugh - X, it will have served its purpose.
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I mean if you pay attention most social media inundated with influencers and companies is basically:
“Buy this, no buy this, buy this instead, spend your money here!” It even leeches into everyday conversations outside of social media.
Pay attention to how often people talk about buying things and newly released products. Hell, I’ve caught myself contributing to it. It’s kind of gross when you realize how steeped in consumerism nearly everything has become.
Who are they even selling to? Everybody’s broke.
It’s why this place is a boiling trash heap.
Not sure why anyone wanted a second twitter that’s still made by a big-tech
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I don’t understand why someone would choose threads over mastadon, where they could have all the dunking with none of the enshittening.
It’s still too complicated for the layperson to have to navigate. Anything beyond “I have one login at one site that everyone else has” is too much for most.
My grandma put electrical tape over the blinking 12:00 on the vcr she still uses. She’s not ready for 2 factor authentication.
I mean, it is annoying to have to reset the clock every time the power fails. No clock, no problem!
Mastodon is the least like that of them though
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It’s a mix between heard mentally (well, all my friends are on it) and FOMO (what are they saying about me over there?)
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Nobody chose threads. It just got shoved down their throats.
Also, Mastadon doesn’t have the same marketing these companies do.
I’d be keen to give it a go if it were legitimately anyone else besides Facebook. Would have even tried it if Microsoft made a random Twitter clone
damn, reading the data collected from the Play Store made me finally delete my instagram account. the damn app is a free farm of data. fuck zuck
I still have my account but only use it ad-free via browser
Same but I never go on anymore because the people I used to follow don’t post anymore, it’s all been taken over by videos from like 5 accounts.
A lot of people tried it out the first few days. Didn’t found the function they need and left.
Probably a lot will go back if its fully functional. Honestly cannot believe a Twitter alternative did not launch with chronological feed…
Ive been hearing the same headline for two weeks now
It’s just companies and influencers, nobody else is posting much there. And half of the influencers are only there to try to get you to follow them somewhere else. (feed is absolutely crammed with Taylor “not wearing a mask outdoors in 2023 is literally genocide” Lorenz hawking her new YouTube channel and I don’t even follow her)
Meanwhile Mastodon continues growing steadily, and I’m getting as much engagement there as I ever did on Twitter with maybe 10% as many followers.
My one big gripe with Mastadon is that images take absolutely forever to load if they have even a marginal amount of pixels. I scroll art often and I’m left waiting for greater than a minute for these things to load (and I’m on a very, very fast connection).
30/30 fiber here. No such issue. My instance is mstdn.party.
Talk to your instance admin for that. Mastodon caches remote images and serves it from the local server to local users, so it should be fast unless the admin has something broken or configured wrong.
I like how they made the logo look like it says “ADS” throughout.
The Ads
You forgot the I.
This is what happens when you launch with no content discovery features, so you have to whore yourself out and follow anyone and everyone if you want to get any attention. “Content creators” and clout chasers are the primary customer of this service, so without that I don’t know why they’d want to use it.
“Minimum Viable Product” has been a curse on the industry for so long. This is the clearest example of its failure
Threads had no discovery features?! Jesus Christ…
No hashtags, no full text search. Just an algorithmic feed and a following feed, and you can only search users.
That’s…really bad 😭 Even Mastodon allows you to search by hashtags (I know it supports full-text search but most instances turn that off because it’s pricey)
Honestly not that big of a deal. When something is hyped up users who either didn’t or barely used Twitter (X) probably joined in. It boosted their initial numbers but again they fell off. They’ll grow as unique content grows. That happens with everything, as will the case be with Lemmy. Growth isn’t linear.
I suppose it isn’t linear but I suspect going from massive insane explosion in numbers to an 80% loss in a matter of weeks is pretty unusual. I think that growth was largely driven not by hype but by the automatic linking with other Zuckernedia properties.
This looks like a hype cycle pattern, and they are entering the trough of disillusionment phase.
Could be the trough of dissolutionment or the trough of oblivion from which there is no return. Probably too early to tell.
And here I am… I’ve never even tried it.
