Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.
  • jcrabapple@dmv.pub
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • sunflower_scribe@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think there will be more activity once they add more features. It’s very bare-bones right now. I honestly like the app, though, all things considered. I hate Facebook/Meta, but it’s been a nice app to just scroll through, and there’s been enough content to use it as a time killer. They desperately need a proper search feature and a trending page, though, especially if they ever hope to fully replace Twitter. Overall, I like it more than both Mastodon and Bluesky, because discoverability is so awful on Mastodon and Bluesky doesn’t have enough users and content because they haven’t gone public yet. And I very much like the idea and structure of Mastodon much more (with it being open source and federated), but the user experience has been so bad for me, with discoverability being the worst aspect of it.

    • NightAuthor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think the main method of discovery is through your network, and through your local instance. Federated timeline tends to be chaotic, but I definitely like reading my local timeline on my regional masto instance. But I believe that was the intention on the design, no ‘trending’, no algorithm, just the people you follow.

      • sunflower_scribe@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I unironically like trending sections and algorithms, at least to some degree lol I understand the downsides of them, but I enjoy things being shown to me that I’ll usually enjoy seeing. The YouTube algorithm for example, despite how finicky it can be to work with as a creator, is very good as a user, in my opinion.

  • crow@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    That’s good news. First it was 50% and now 80%. How bout meta loses 100% of its users.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I’d still rather see Threads succeed and Twitter die now that a fash-friendly owner lets fashy types run wild.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Not sure why anyone wanted a second twitter that’s still made by a big-tech

  • CreativeTensors@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.