cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/560250
Different source: https://bgr.com/tech/threads-has-lost-half-of-its-daily-active-users-a-week-after-launch/
Not surprising. What’s funny about this is the weirdness of fracturing the simple idea of a microblogging service.
Like right now there are people with four apps on their phone: mastodon, bluesky, threads and twitter. They may even use most of those pretty regularly … to what!!! post 200 character statements about trivial stuff?
Really does make the case for a federated protocol of some sort. Choosing your app, culture, community and moderation standards really can’t be tightly coupled to the platform anymore.
Really does make the case for a federated protocol of some sort.
Well, Threads is at least aiming to do that and integrate with Mastodon, but the group mind has decided that this is bad.
Well, Threads is at least aiming to do that and integrate with Mastodon, but the group mind has decided that this is bad.
I’m not part of that group mind, but I’m cynical that they will federate. From a business standpoint it doesn’t benefit them, so I’m betting it’s just a buzzword they’re using.
Mastodon will never take off, it’s all about Post.
Mastodon will never take off, it’s all about Cohost.
Mastodon will never take off, it’s all about Hive.
Mastodon will never take off, it’s all about Bluesky.
Mastodon will never take off, it’s all about Threads.Mastodon will never take off.
Flight departed about a year ago, I’d say it took off.
It’s just that it looks more like a formation of Cessnas than a jumbo jet, which confuses some people.
Seven passengers boarded. The rest are still trying to decipher their boarding pass.
I’ll believe it when Mastodons fly
Not surprised really. People (myself included) just wanted to see what it’s like.
Why though? I’ll never understand this. Wasn’t Instagram already doing the same thing?
Maybe I’m too old. Get off my lawn!
You’ll never understand why people want to check out the latest app from a major tech company?
I get it if you aren’t interested personally, but it seems strange to not understand why people would want to try it.
There was no initial surge. Automatically creating shadow accounts from your list of Instagram users doesn’t count as a surge.
I still haven’t seen any actual evidence of this, but I’m excited to see yours, which you clearly have given how confidently you’re asserting this.
I was just repeating what I’ve seen said here several times. Should I have taken steps to verify it before repeating it? Yes. Do I dislike and distrust Facebook enough to believe they’d do something like this without giving it a second thought? Also yes.
For the record, the numbers they reported were based on the number of Instagram users that downloaded the Threads app and took the active step of activating their account there. Threads and Instagram share accounts, so it’s a very seamless process. What Meta very much did not do was take the number of Instagram accounts, which is around 1 billion, and say “We have a billion Threads signups!”.
Sharing accounts and thus making it extremely easy to sign up for was, if anything, a very clever and smart move.
