must be sort of a wake up for all of the platform owners to see the user base be so fluid like that… like any of them could get flushed down a toilet at any moment…
I’m torn on this one. I want users to migrate to FOSS platforms but at the same time Threads is the best near term solution to drain Twitter users. In a perfect world, I would like the skinheads to stay on Twitter, the attention seeking people to go to threads, and the normal folk to hit Lemmy/Kbin.
At least for me, micro blogging serves very different needs than forums. I don’t see them as so interchangeable that Twitter people flock to kbin/Lemmy.
I signed up to it from instagram to track my favorite epidemiologists and h5n1 only to discover it has no hashtag system to look up trending topics and most of my favorite epidemiologists aren’t even on it. So it’s worthless for even following COVID, avian flu, and probably every other news topic.
Being attached to Instagram is really the only reason it took off imo. Of course all the normal Insta users are going to at least try it out because it’s so “easy” to sign up.
I’d argue that the initial sign up week people should not be classified as “daily active users”
Lots of people will check something out when it launches, I’d only start measuring actual usage after a month or two.
Yeah. Really those “DAU” numbers should be rolling average numbers per month, because there’s far too much user variability even week to week for any data to be reliable.
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must be sort of a wake up for all of the platform owners to see the user base be so fluid like that… like any of them could get flushed down a toilet at any moment…
inb4 they federate and tell their investors all the fediverse users are theirs
We wouldn’t even move the amount by a percent
I’m torn on this one. I want users to migrate to FOSS platforms but at the same time Threads is the best near term solution to drain Twitter users. In a perfect world, I would like the skinheads to stay on Twitter, the attention seeking people to go to threads, and the normal folk to hit Lemmy/Kbin.
We need another feeble attempt by a big corporation to splinter then even further.
Yeah. Google needs to get in there with another product that they will leave in Beta until they cancel it in 18 months.
The “normal folk” are the lowest common denominators that turn a fun, hobbiest-centric platform into what Reddit and Facebook and Twitter have become.
Give me the freaks and geeks instead; they’re the cooler, wiser, less hate-filled people.
At least for me, micro blogging serves very different needs than forums. I don’t see them as so interchangeable that Twitter people flock to kbin/Lemmy.
Isn’t mastodon the federated microblogging replacement? Lemmy & kbin are the forum/news aggregator replacement instead, correct?
That’s meant to be the use case, yeah. Threads kind of wanted to be a bit of both, and of course ended up sucking at both…
Is that the Facebook one?
Yes. Attached to Instagram.
Well deserved🥳
I signed up to it from instagram to track my favorite epidemiologists and h5n1 only to discover it has no hashtag system to look up trending topics and most of my favorite epidemiologists aren’t even on it. So it’s worthless for even following COVID, avian flu, and probably every other news topic.
Being attached to Instagram is really the only reason it took off imo. Of course all the normal Insta users are going to at least try it out because it’s so “easy” to sign up.
I thought it was explicitly anti-news and politics?
Ah well that would be why it’s completely pointless to me. Since all science is politicized now, I guess there is no reason to use it.
Where do they get their data from? I doubt them. So does Gruber. https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/whats_the_deal_with_sensor_tower
Any downfall of Meta (former Facebook ) is a victory for FOSS community, internet and mankind as a whole. One of the heads of the Hydra Big Tech.
I’d argue that the initial sign up week people should not be classified as “daily active users” Lots of people will check something out when it launches, I’d only start measuring actual usage after a month or two.
Yeah. Really those “DAU” numbers should be rolling average numbers per month, because there’s far too much user variability even week to week for any data to be reliable.
But shareholders want big numbers.
I don’t know what your talking about 80% is pretty big.
exactly what I was thinking. That big starting number is misleading at best.
And 80 percent of over 100 million users is still 20-30m active users.
You’re bad at math (or more likely bad at wording things properly), 80% of 100million is 80 million…
The article says 80 percent of the users left. If you had more context, you would have got what I said.
Threads is on track to earn the title of “most actively dropped social network”.