The main issue is that they assumed the rate limit was going to be the dumbest thing Elon was going to do, and they released Threads long before it was actually ready.
Yeah, I read an article from someone explaining the actual user experience in Threads and it’s abysmal. You try to curate your feed and instead of getting what you expect, you get content from the likes of people your followers followed followed and are left wondering who the hell everyone is. It’s far from the type of setup you get on Instagram.
With that said, Threads had lost half its users ages ago. This headline is sensational, and the platform could easily recover. I don’t want to give it much weight.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere on Lemmy, but I follow a ton of artists on the former birdsite, and almost all of them ended up flocking to Threads and Bluesky. I created a Threads account to see what all the hype was about, and it is a very half-baked experience. Ignoring all the privacy concerns, the whole thing is very unfinished. Like you said, the feed is full of people I don’t even know or follow and I have to chase down my friends to see their posts. The lack of hashtags is a problem too, and since it’s not available in the EU, that rules out one of my best friends as well as many of her other friends.
I don’t know if it will recover or not, but there’s the old saying, “You only get one chance to make a first impression.”
This is so fucking true lol
I’m not a fan of Meta, but this is sort of expected behavior for any company. You get a swell of account signups and then people go dormant.
This is just bad tech reporting; the tech press can only write 3 stories:
- This company is a success
- This company is a failure
- Look how much funding this company got
Often you get all three about the same company
I wouldn’t be surprised if users of most new apps with a lot of hype follow this trend. Everyone jumps in at first, as hype dies a lot of users stop visiting, and after that is when # of daily users stabilizes and begins the organic growth. We are still in the hype dying phase, transitioning to normal growth.
For that reason, I dont put much weight in headlines like this. It will take several more months or a year to really make a conclusion on whether the app is a success or failure.
I feel as though many of the new users were just squatting the usernames so they could sell t hem(ie someone takes mrbeast so they could sell it to the real mr beast)
You have to have an instagram account in order to have a threads account - it’s how you log in. I think whatever your Instagram handle is becomes your threads handle, or it’s saved for you.
I wanted to see what it was like so I created a new Instagram account (not linked to any of my real personal info) and then a new threads account. I had a look for a couple of days and decided it was dogshit so I deleted both. I suspect an awful lot of people did exactly that.
Exactly like any new game released on Steam. Massive uptake by users but it quickly peaks and dies down. Almost every time.
Lack of tags or a working search feature broke it for me, I use twitter for news not to see quips from influencers I’ve never heard of. I might check it out again when it’s something other than marginally famous internet celebrities screaming into an empty void.
Are the other half government bots and fbi agents?
It is quite normal for any business to lose customers after everyone try’s it out. This is being framed negatively, but having 50m users after only a few weeks is amazing. And I say this as someone that refuses to use FB.
I think Facebook and Instagram users had no need to use Twitter anyway, so its alternative doesn’t fill any need.
Yeah, I’m really not sure how this replaces the functionality of Facebook and Instagram. If anything, it’s more limiting.
Well I was using it but I got locked out due to living in Germany :/
Now it simply bots… Like reddit and more and more here…
I was thinking the same thing! Put couple bots and say evet goes perfect!
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It is no different than a Twitter version of Instagram…
Full of celebrities and influences.
And these people has no privacy right at all, they literally sell their life.
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If their fediverse plan goes according to plan (did I just rhyme that?), then I might see some more potential in using Threads. Maybe I can also get rid of my Mastodon account because I literally don’t use it anymore (I can’t get rid of my Threads account without also getting rid of my Instagram account. It’s both or nothing)
