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- news@lemmy.world
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::“We’re seeing more people coming back daily than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said.
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So we’re gonna sit here and pretend that there weren’t automatic sign-ups for Instagram users? They got signed up without choice. Facebook did that.
Upvoted for your edit. Publicly admitting you’re wrong has become too rare.
I have no problems publicly admitting that you are wrong.
I think because people’s egos are more fragile than ever these days. Being wrong is like end of the world.
It wasn’t automatic. Not sure where you got that idea. But you had to get the app and then sign in using your Instagram account to set up the thread profile. They had “shadow copies” of your Instagram profiles on threads so for example you could sub to someone’s profile and when they’d join threads you’d get their activities. But no it wasn’t automatic.
Relevant username
To add further context to the corrections this comment has already received, there are 1.6 billion (with a B) Instagram users. Far more than 100 million.
This is the key. There certainly were NOT 100mm people that signed up of their own accord.
It’s severe lack of features was its downfall. I signed up and my feed was full of random celebs with no way to filter it to people you follow (apparently they added this recently). But the main issue NO FCKING SEARCH, you can only search for accounts nothing else. Discoverability if you are not a famous person is basically 0. No hashtags so no discussion of specific trends or topics. No Trends in general.
This was my biggest driver as well, I liked the platform but it lacked features and I too hate being flooded with people I don’t know on my feed.
They are going to continue to bleed users because of lack of features.
This is literally just what happens with new tech, nobody expects even 50% retention from when it’s new and hot.
Remember that time when literally any new Google product would crash at release and then would be a desert one month after launch?
Dropping projects is kind of Googles thing lol
If only they’d drop WEI
That’s okay, it’s still sending all your data to Meta, and that’s the important thing.
Launching a new social media network and not making it available in the EU is really dumb imho.
Not launching in the EU tells you everything you need to know about their privacy policies.
@twentyfumble @L4s The #GDPR was not the issue IMHO. It was/is the uncertainty regarding the #DMA (https://www.politico.eu/article/why-europeans-dont-have-threads-yet-twitter-meta/).
Actually I am one of them who signed up during the initial hype. I was on twitter few years before. Was fed up and deleted the account. Started thread since I like twitter like social media. But it was full of stolen post from reddit and twitter. The same stupid memes I saw in reddit, lemmy etc are present there. Nothing interesting. I can get all the news, memes and entertaining contents from reddit and lemmy. Why the hell should I see that again in threads? Then there are people who is using it like instagram and Facebook. Just posting thier photos in different poses. I still have the app, but hasn’t spent 5 minutes in the last week.
Lack of trends and hashtag search is a big no for me.
Nearly half still using it is actually pretty good. Stupid headline.
i know a whole bunch of people who signed up just because, looked around, and the never used it again.
Can’t expect people who are actually still using twitter to stop at this point.
Most? The article says “more than half” so which is it?
I think those two phrases mean the same thing
Which one do you prefer?
No shit, it’s S-tier shit and they were signed up without asking to be.
FOMO was the big driver here. Once they saw Threads sucked, the peaced out.
