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.
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.
Ive been hearing the same headline for two weeks now
Because it’s so boring. It doesn’t have a “trending” tab and every post is an ad.
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.
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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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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!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform, shared its data with Gizmodo showing Threads daily active users hovered around 49 million just two days after launch.
David Carr, a senior insights manager at the analysis company, told us the engagement time based on just U.S. user data was slightly more favorable to Threads, but not by much.
Back during its 15 minutes of fame, Threads was leveraged as the fastest-growing platform in the history of apps, hitting 100 million user signups less than a week after launch.
Instagram head Amad Mosseri has also mentioned their intent to connect Threads to the decentralized Fediverse, though whether that drives new-found interest in the app is anyone’s guess.
It was clear from Thread’s launch that users were desperate for a Twitter alternative away from owner Elon Musk’s unending march toward making the platform a pay-to-play hellscape.
A big problem with the app was that it simply didn’t include features found in its main competitors, and the company spent years playing catch up, but all in vain.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Absolutely love this bot. No longer need to leave the app to read articles 💪
+1 Hate that Connect uses a chrome browser and not my system default. :T
You can switch to use the external browser in the app settings, however, at time it affects everything - including images. Once that’s fixed, I’ll probably move back from Sync to Connect!
It has been sadly disabled for Beehaw at the request of admins/mods, you might want to contact them if you feel it’s useful, there is some discussion about this going on in https://beehaw.org/post/6976148.
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.
And here I am… I’ve never even tried it.
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
10 million DAU’s is still pretty impressive
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
Fuck the Zuck.
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…
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.
I like how they made the logo look like it says “ADS” throughout.
You forgot the I.
The Ads
