Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
The rival to Twitter saw explosive growth but users have since drifted away, Meta boss acknowledges.
I’m pretty sure Lemmy has also gone down a lot recently based on the number of upvotes things are getting
85With Lemmy, it’s because a bunch of bot accounts got deleted I think.
42Yeah I agree, its user count is still growing on .world alone, and so fast in fact that I’m starting to consider making my sopuli alt my main account to not add to the load.
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While the apps we have now are really great, I think that number will go back up a bit once boost and sync for Lemmy are released.
I find myself missing so many features I would consider super basic from Boost. Things that would make my Lemmy experience so much better. Even if the apps we have now do those things, they feel clunky and not as good.
Even features aside, the UI makes a huge difference. There are a few Reddit apps I personally couldn't get into, because of font sizes, spacing, contrast, etc. I'm feeling the same way with Lemmy. I'm tolerating the app I currently use, only because I know Boost is on the way.
28Yeah, same here with Infinity
It was my app of choice and I got so use to it, whenever I go back to it every once and a while, I just remember everything I miss since switching to jerboa
Biggest one is definitely the smoothness, idk y but jerboa has a subtly noticable stutter every time I swipe around the feeds, whereas Infinity is completely smooth, running at 90hz flawlessly
And there's alot of other small QoL and rough-around-the-edges things, too
The minute that Infinity for Lemmy comes out, if at all, is the minute that I return to my home app
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Competing with the summer weather?
Also some who vowed to leave reddit undoubtedly recanted
9I think even users who are still here, like myself, just don't have the same energy from when I first started. And it's a snowball effect, less engagement results in even less engagement from others.
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not as bad as I thought, actually. there's been a ~10% drop in monthly active users since the reddit spike
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The app feels very one-dimensional. There’s a reason the algorithm exists despite it being publicly derided: it works.
24It would be a sign of health in our societies if people stopped using the services of these leaches.
24Well said. The name and logo reminds me of a parasitic worm.
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I always got the impression it was more geared towards pushing brands and celebrities in front of you rather than being an engaging social media platform.
22All users were forced users. Meaning, everyone who had Instagram also had a threads account. No wonder everyone leaves.
18Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to "activate" threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
3I feel like that was by design, make your numbers look better than they actually are. The thing that zuck the cuck seems to always forget is that Facebook grew organically by word of mouth, not forced through tricks and metrics. That's the main advantage of lemmy and kbin right now, their growth is by sheer word of mouth, completely organic.
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Threads users down by more than half ... so far
15Yes, this always happens, on every platform. Lemmy did the same. It's not newsworthy.
14Maybe they're just chilling in Mark's metaverse.
12Ah, the humans.
On one hand they’re all for peace and unity but on the other hand they’re still using platforms owned by a man who had a hand in orchestrating military killings, swinging the US elections, facilitating Brexit etc and a man who, amongst other things, has been photographed partying with Maxwell, Murdoch, Trump and all the other evil fucks.
12IMO, the fact that there's no desktop version (AFAIK) and they made it so difficult to discover new content, pages/people. etc., & how many of the users are probably just Instagram users who had accounts auto-added & have no interest in Threads, are the main reasons for the decline.
8I think they blocked European users from using a vpn to access it. Maybe that was part of the reason. Someone else said that it might be the algorithm, but honestly, mastodon doesn’t have that and it’s a great community.
4why would anyone use a vpn to surpass an European law that cares about your privacy?!
4@stebo02 @worfamerryman, not only for privacy, its also to bypass country restrictions, eg, try to watch a movie or serie in the German publicTV in their official Homepage, from other country, even of the EC. You can't without VPN.
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